changed cities & isp- wireless issues

I just moved to a different city and have a new ISP (Time Warner). My
wireless router and card were working fine with the earlier provider
and now they don't.

I am able to access internet through the cable and an Ethernet cable.
However, when I try to go through cable modem to ethernet connection to
wireless router and then an Ethernet connection to my laptop it doesnot
work, though the card still recognizes the router.

Any insight will be appreciated

> I just moved to a different city and have a new ISP (Time Warner). My
> wireless router and card were working fine with the earlier provider

> Any insight will be appreciated

You won't make Jeff happy cos you're not disclosing what hardware you
have. He hates having to guess!

On Sat, 01 Oct 2005 04:33:51 -0700, VChopra.1973 wrote:

> I just moved to a different city and have a new ISP (Time Warner). My
> wireless router and card were working fine with the earlier provider
> and now they don't.
>
> I am able to access internet through the cable and an Ethernet cable.
> However, when I try to go through cable modem to ethernet connection to
> wireless router and then an Ethernet connection to my laptop it doesnot
> work, though the card still recognizes the router.
>
> Any insight will be appreciated

A lot of cable/dsl companies limit/lock their connections to specific mac
addresses (usually the first one they have seen). Your wireless router
should have a feature to "clone" or "copy" a mac address on it's internet
port. To try this on the laptop run ifconfig /all when connected via
ethernet and record it's mac address then put that address into the router.

Restart/Reboot the dsl/cable modem and the wireless router as needed.

This should fix your problem.

On 1 Oct 2005 04:33:51 -0700, (E-Mail Removed) wrote:

>I just moved to a different city and have a new ISP (Time Warner).

Well, looking at your news header and extracting the IP address:
posting-host=24.74.21.149
shows you're in the Charlotte, North Carolina area on Road Runner
cable. This is fun. How close did I get?

>My
>wireless router and card were working fine with the earlier provider
>and now they don't.

Is this a guessing game? Is there any possible reason that you are
unable to find the make and model number of your equipment? If you're
embarrassed as to the poor quality of equipment you're using, I can
see why you would withhold this information. If you are expecting
specific answers, kindly supply enough information to be able to
answer your questions.

>I am able to access internet through the cable and an Ethernet cable.

OK. I decode that to mean that you are able to surf the internet
without the unspecified wireless router being connected in the
circuit.

>However, when I try to go through cable modem to ethernet connection to
>wireless router and then an Ethernet connection to my laptop it doesnot
>work, though the card still recognizes the router.

OK, so you have both wired and wireless connectivity between your
laptop and the router. Therefore, the problem, by elimination must be
the cable modem to router connection or setup.

>Any insight will be appreciated

One must stuffer before enlightenment.

I think (not sure) that Road Runner authenticates their customers by
the MAC address of the connecting computer or device. When you
directly connect the computer to the cable modem, Road Runner sees the
MAC address of your computah. You need to "clone" the MAC address of
this computer into the router. There is probably a page in the setup
that defines how this is done. After cloning the address, you will
need to power down the cable modem to get it to use the new MAC
address for the unspecified wireless router.

My guess(tm) is that your unspecified previous ISP probably was also a
cable ISP and therefore used DHCP to assign IP addresses. Chances are
high that the "connection type" is the same from your old unspecified
ISP, but not guaranteed. Please verify the "WAN setup" page on your
unspecified wireless router and make any changes as necessary. If you
suspect that the router is totally screwed up, I suggest a grand reset
and starting over per Road Runner setup instructions.

Road Runner FAQ's and docs:
http://members.tripod.com/~tlarrow/rrfaq.htm
http://home.san.rr.com/main/rrfaq/

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