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Lost Internet Connection

Jun 4, 2005 7:34AM PDT

emachines T3025
3000+ AMD Athlon XP Processor
160 GB Hard Drive
CD-RW 48x Max Write
Nvidia GeForce 4 MX Integrated Graphics Card
DVD 16x Max Read
512 MB DDR SDRAM
10/100 Mbps Ethernet

I have Roadrunner, and two computers networked to a router. I thought if I switched to my old router, I could get faster downloads, since it would be easier than port forwarding. I switched routers, and lost internet connection on the other computer

Usually, when I plug a network cable into the computer, it has this "trying to connect" symbol then there's a yellow ! in the tray. I go on Firefox and it says it can't display anything

But at Best Buy, it connected to the internet. Best Buy didn't help me. emachines suggested I try different things on the phone, and none of those worked. I tried plugging in different ports in the router, getting a new cable, uninstalling the network driver, system restore, using a different ethernet card, and plugging a USB cable into the modem to the computer. When I plug in the USB, there's a red X in the tray

What should I do?

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(NT) (NT) http://www.broadbandreports.com/forums/all
Jun 7, 2005 2:06AM PDT
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Switch back?
Jun 8, 2005 11:50AM PDT

Why don't you just switch back to the new router? You can just set up DMZ for the computer that's used for sharing files, and port forwarding on the other. It's far easier than getting an old router to work. That old router may simply be broken. You never know...

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I am using the new router
Jun 8, 2005 10:47PM PDT

The old one is a hub. My new router doesn't even give connection on this computer. It might be a bad router, so I might need to buy a new one

What router do you reccomend? I hear there's one that has 40% faster downloads

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?
Jun 9, 2005 4:48AM PDT

There is no such thing as 40% faster download... -_-

Ethernet works at 100Mbps. The fastest home internet connection has a downstream speed of 5Mbps. The bottleneck isn't your router. Don't believe them.

Actually, you may want to take another look at that router. It may not be actually be broken. Don't spend extra money when you don't have to.

And of course, only one computer working on a hub would make sense. After all, hub does not assign multiple IP addresses. 1 IP means only 1 computer can go online.