Networking?

Good day to all. For the past couple of weeks I have been trying to set up one of my computers as a server with no luck. I installed WWW File Share Pro but no luck. Last night I connected the modem Westell 6100 directly to the computer and it works. What I need to know is how can I get this to work when I hook the modem up to my router which is a Linksys WRT54G.





Thanks is advance

Networking?
Let's take this one step at a time starting with the Modem/Router issue. When you connect the modem to the router you are using an RJ45 connection? This should allow the router to connect to your ISP.





Next you should be connecting your computer to the router, either wired or wireless. I would start out wired with another RJ45 connection.





You said "I have been trying to set up one of my computers as a server"; what did you want this computer to do as a server? Is this suppose to provide your intranet with IP information, DNS, sign on authentication, or are you planning it to host your web set to the world? Each of these is a different function and do not effect your connecting the router and modem to the Internet.
Reply:Sounds like your ISP may be restricting the outbound traffic based on the source MAC address. I dont see this much anymore and most ISP's have given up this practice as its overly time consuming for them to constantly answer this question from customers.





I would be that if you did a release and renew on the WAN connection that it would start to work. Unless you have DSL and you must provide PPoE log in credentials to establish the connection.





When you first installed the broadband service did it come with an install CD that asked you for a user account/password? If it did then you will need to set up the router to provide those same credentials to the ISP.





I believe that on the Lynksys routers there is a drop down menu under WAN, that allows you to choose your connection type. Check that section out and it might work.
Reply:You can hook the modem directly to the router, but there is one trick. From the machine that you had the modem connected to, click start/run and type cmd to get to dos. the type "ipconfig /all", that will show you the MAC address of that machine. copy that down. them go in to your router config and go to the "Clone" area. Type in the mac address you got from your computer and have the clone or use that mac address for the broadband connection.