Guest John-Paul Posted September 13, 2007 Posted September 13, 2007 I'm having no luck connecting my sister's computer to the internet. The way it's set up in our house is this - there's a room in the basement with the cable modem, which connects to a hub, which in turn connects to another device that sends the connection to all the jacks in different rooms in the house. I know the jack in my sister's room works because I've successfully connected to the internet using my mom's laptop, which happens to be an Apple. Anyways, the blinking green lights on her ethernet card are visible, but XP always says there is limited or no connectivity. What's the setting that I'm missing? I really can't figure this one out.
Guest Anando [MVP] Posted September 13, 2007 Posted September 13, 2007 Re: Connecting to the Internet with XP Hello, You need a router if you want to have multiple computers on the network sharing the same internet connection. The router gives separate I addresses to the different machine. A hub does not do that. Hence you see the "limited connection" icon because its not getting a valid IP address from the ISP DHCP. Thats my best guess. -- Anando Microsoft MVP- Windows Shell/User http://www.microsoft.com/mvp My Blog http://www.anando.org/blog "John-Paul" <John-Paul@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:F673AED9-5D03-4CAA-AC1A-6D29EE08DD9C@microsoft.com... > I'm having no luck connecting my sister's computer to the internet. The way > it's set up in our house is this - there's a room in the basement with the > cable modem, which connects to a hub, which in turn connects to another > device that sends the connection to all the jacks in different rooms in the > house. I know the jack in my sister's room works because I've successfully > connected to the internet using my mom's laptop, which happens to be an Apple. > > Anyways, the blinking green lights on her ethernet card are visible, but XP > always says there is limited or no connectivity. What's the setting that I'm > missing? I really can't figure this one out.
Guest John-Paul Posted September 13, 2007 Posted September 13, 2007 Re: Connecting to the Internet with XP Thanks for your reply. Interesting idea, especially since my mom's Mac G4 laptop was hooked directly up the jack and worked fine. I run a G5 desktop which I also have hooked up directly to the wall jack with no trouble. Other than that, I do have two wireless routers set up in different parts of the house. Mac and Windows laptops connect to those without any trouble. "Anando [MVP]" wrote: > Hello, > > You need a router if you want to have multiple computers on the network sharing the same internet > connection. The router gives separate I addresses to the different machine. A hub does not do that. > Hence you see the "limited connection" icon because its not getting a valid IP address from the ISP > DHCP. Thats my best guess. > > -- > Anando > Microsoft MVP- Windows Shell/User > http://www.microsoft.com/mvp > > My Blog > http://www.anando.org/blog > "John-Paul" <John-Paul@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:F673AED9-5D03-4CAA-AC1A-6D29EE08DD9C@microsoft.com... > > I'm having no luck connecting my sister's computer to the internet. The way > > it's set up in our house is this - there's a room in the basement with the > > cable modem, which connects to a hub, which in turn connects to another > > device that sends the connection to all the jacks in different rooms in the > > house. I know the jack in my sister's room works because I've successfully > > connected to the internet using my mom's laptop, which happens to be an Apple. > > > > Anyways, the blinking green lights on her ethernet card are visible, but XP > > always says there is limited or no connectivity. What's the setting that I'm > > missing? I really can't figure this one out. >
Guest BigJim Posted September 13, 2007 Posted September 13, 2007 Re: Connecting to the Internet with XP could be an improper password or something else in the setup. You may have to repair the network. Probably something like that. "John-Paul" <John-Paul@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:F673AED9-5D03-4CAA-AC1A-6D29EE08DD9C@microsoft.com... > I'm having no luck connecting my sister's computer to the internet. The > way > it's set up in our house is this - there's a room in the basement with the > cable modem, which connects to a hub, which in turn connects to another > device that sends the connection to all the jacks in different rooms in > the > house. I know the jack in my sister's room works because I've > successfully > connected to the internet using my mom's laptop, which happens to be an > Apple. > > Anyways, the blinking green lights on her ethernet card are visible, but > XP > always says there is limited or no connectivity. What's the setting that > I'm > missing? I really can't figure this one out.
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