Trying to get DHCP to work

I have a router that uses DHCP to assign IP's. I set my
ME box to obtain IP automatically, but always get a
169.254.144.33 address assigned when the router is
supposed to assign 10..... IP's. At one point I had tryed
to set up a hub, and had used the Home Networking Wizard.
Is there something that could be overridding my new
settings for DHCP?


Joe

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"Joe" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I have a router that uses DHCP to assign IP's. I set my
> ME box to obtain IP automatically, but always get a
> 169.254.144.33 address assigned when the router is
> supposed to assign 10..... IP's. At one point I had tryed
> to set up a hub, and had used the Home Networking Wizard.
> Is there something that could be overridding my new
> settings for DHCP?

If a PC gets a 169.xxx.xxx.xxx address that means that it is not seeing the
DHCP Server and is assigning itself a private address. This could be a bad
network card, a bad network cable, or incorrect network settings.

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"Joe" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:07ed01c3b4a7$fab0ba50$(E-Mail Removed)...
> I have a router that uses DHCP to assign IP's. I set my
> ME box to obtain IP automatically, but always get a
> 169.254.144.33 address assigned when the router is
> supposed to assign 10..... IP's. At one point I had tryed
> to set up a hub, and had used the Home Networking Wizard.
> Is there something that could be overridding my new
> settings for DHCP?

If you manually set up the IP settings can you ping the router that is
supposed to provide DHCP addresses? Often this problem is a bad network
cable, NIC or hub.

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Thanks,
Marc Reynolds
Microsoft Technical Support

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"Joe" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:07ed01c3b4a7$fab0ba50$(E-Mail Removed)...
> I have a router that uses DHCP to assign IP's. I set my
> ME box to obtain IP automatically, but always get a
> 169.254.144.33 address assigned when the router is
> supposed to assign 10..... IP's. At one point I had tryed
> to set up a hub, and had used the Home Networking Wizard.
> Is there something that could be overridding my new
> settings for DHCP?