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Sharing a net connection between my Mac and pc

Sep 10, 2004 9:35AM PDT

Just got cable internet installed a week ago, and now I can't use my pc labtop( my roomate's) to get on the net, but my mac is able to be online. A few days I ago i reset my router, because it had blocked my school website, but nothing else. I reset the router, and I was able to get on my school website, but I wasn't able to use my pc. My computer is attached to the modem, (don't have internal modem) The cable goes into the modem, then I have a cat 5 cable, that connects to the router, and then had another cat 5 cable connect to the pc. I don't have the any information on the router, other than its a netgear wireless router mr814v2. A friend of mine suggested I had bad cables, (wasn't a problem), type ipconfig in the cmd, but didn't do anything. Please let me know if anyone has any suggestions.
I have a g4 mac 10.2, 867 processor 768mem
compaq presario labtop, Xp HomeEdition, amd 4, proc 489, 496 memory

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A confusing post.
Sep 10, 2004 10:55AM PDT

In your post, you described the PC connected to the modem, to the router and then reveal you have two routers. I can't tell what your setup is.

Bob

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Re: A confusing post. sorry
Sep 12, 2004 7:54AM PDT

Sorry to confuse you, thanks for replying to my post! My mac is connected to the modem, then connected to the router. then I a cat5 cable is connected going from the router, to the pc. I only have one router, everything is daisy chained to each other. The pc has cat5 cable that goes from the to the router to the pc's port. When I had the cable installed it was installed on my computer. All did to get the pc online was plugin a cat5 cable. I had to reset my router, and I think thats when the connection got lost on the pc. I tried a repair option in windows, is there a way I can tell is what its ip address should be?

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Re: A confusing post. sorry
Sep 12, 2004 8:08AM PDT

"My mac is connected to the modem, then connected to the router. then I a cat5 cable is connected going from the router,..."

Sorry, that's some odd setup. I've never seen such a setup. I'd ask who designed it to help you make it work.

Bob