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Hi all have a problem hopefully one of you technical people can give me some help .
We have three PC's networked together via a Belkin 5 port switch all working fine ( 2 with xp & one with 98 )no internet connection . We also have a further 3 PC's connected to a Netgear ADSL firewall Router connected to BRoadband .I have taken a cable from a spare port on the Belking switch and connected this to a spare port on the router ,all computers can now share files , printers etc but I cannot get any Internet on the 3 PC's connected to the switch although on the taskbar it shows an internet connection .
Any idea's
We have three PC's networked together via a Belkin 5 port switch all working fine ( 2 with xp & one with 98 )no internet connection . We also have a further 3 PC's connected to a Netgear ADSL firewall Router connected to BRoadband .I have taken a cable from a spare port on the Belking switch and connected this to a spare port on the router ,all computers can now share files , printers etc but I cannot get any Internet on the 3 PC's connected to the switch although on the taskbar it shows an internet connection .
Any idea's
bigjohnBOY said:
Hi all have a problem hopefully one of you technical people can give me some help .
We have three PC's networked together via a Belkin 5 port switch all working fine ( 2 with xp & one with 98 )no internet connection . We also have a further 3 PC's connected to a Netgear ADSL firewall Router connected to BRoadband .I have taken a cable from a spare port on the Belking switch and connected this to a spare port on the router ,all computers can now share files , printers etc but I cannot get any Internet on the 3 PC's connected to the switch although on the taskbar it shows an internet connection .
Any idea's
I suggest looking at either routing or name resolution.
i.e make sure that your default gateway is set to the eADSL router's internal IP address and that you have configured DNS on the 3 machines.
Darren
It's quite simple.
On the 3 machines not connected to the router, you must go to the TCP/IP settings and assign them each a unique IP address within the same subnet as the other PC's.
The router will probably be 192.168.1.1, so the other machines must be 192.168.1.x (where x is a value between 2 and 255).
It's probably best to set the addresses of the machines connected to the router too so you do not get any conflicts.
The most important step is to set the DEFAULT GATEWAY to the ip address of the router (should be 192.168.1.1) but you can check this by typing "ipconfig /all" at the command prompt on a machine connected to the router. The routers IP will be given under "Default Gateway".
I hope this helps you.
On the 3 machines not connected to the router, you must go to the TCP/IP settings and assign them each a unique IP address within the same subnet as the other PC's.
The router will probably be 192.168.1.1, so the other machines must be 192.168.1.x (where x is a value between 2 and 255).
It's probably best to set the addresses of the machines connected to the router too so you do not get any conflicts.
The most important step is to set the DEFAULT GATEWAY to the ip address of the router (should be 192.168.1.1) but you can check this by typing "ipconfig /all" at the command prompt on a machine connected to the router. The routers IP will be given under "Default Gateway".
I hope this helps you.
LaurenceFrost said:
It's quite simple.
On the 3 machines not connected to the router, you must go to the TCP/IP settings and assign them each a unique IP address within the same subnet as the other PC's.
The router will probably be 192.168.1.1, so the other machines must be 192.168.1.x (where x is a value between 2 and 255).
It's probably best to set the addresses of the machines connected to the router too so you do not get any conflicts.
The most important step is to set the DEFAULT GATEWAY to the ip address of the router (should be 192.168.1.1) but you can check this by typing "ipconfig /all" at the command prompt on a machine connected to the router. The routers IP will be given under "Default Gateway".
I hope this helps you.
That's what I said (apart from I missed out the part about IP addresses because he did say that the machines can all 'see' each other so communication on the same subnet must be OK). That's assuming they all use TCP/IP I suppose....
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