On Thursday 25 Dec 2003 10:11 pm, ken barber wrote:
> well...,, i cooked my non-traditional Christmas dinner
> by grilling 2 of the biggest porterhouse steaks. this
> cow hopefully was not mad, just a little disappointed
> at being my dinner.
>
> i am back on line at least partly. the main computer
> is up by itself. but, the other one can't get to the
> net. the tech said the usb port was where the sort
> was. he put my modem onto ethernet card. the only
> problem with that is that, now, the netgear hub i had
> does not like the modem and vice versa. if i plug into
> the hub, the two machines recognize each other, but,
> can't recognize the modem. the tech said i'd need to
> replace the hub with a router. i did that and got the
> same results. if everything is pluged into the router,
> the neither reconizes the the modem. but the one
> machine by it self will go to the modem and get out to
> the internet.
>

Make sure everything ('puters', router and modem) have different IP addresses
(you should give them all addresses starting with the same 3 numbers (i.e.
192.168.0.???), and set the default gateway to the modem's IP address.

Cheers

Deri