At my friends house, his PC works fine with their internet, but when I hook min up it doesnt work, and when I try the repair button it just says cannot renew IP address.
Is there any way to solve this? I wanna Play FFXI but its only on my PC and not his >< lol
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I assume that when you hook yours up you're unplugging his? If that's the case you need to bounce the modem after yours is connected.
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Try turning off your modem and anything else (like hub) and turn them back on, wait a few minutes, and hope your network works. Thats the best advice without more info.
few things.
1. what kind of connection does your friend have? xDSL, Cable, ISDN, etc...
2. does he have a router between his internet connection device (modem) and his computer?
3. what IP address does he have:
do the following:
hit start
hit run
type: cmd
hit OK
a big black window will show up on the screen: type:
ifconfig /all
copy/paste that info here from your FRIENDS computer after he is connected to the internet.
Edited, Jan 28th 2007 10:20pm by Singdall
1. what kind of connection does your friend have? xDSL, Cable, ISDN, etc...
2. does he have a router between his internet connection device (modem) and his computer?
3. what IP address does he have:
do the following:
hit start
hit run
type: cmd
hit OK
a big black window will show up on the screen: type:
ifconfig /all
copy/paste that info here from your FRIENDS computer after he is connected to the internet.
Edited, Jan 28th 2007 10:20pm by Singdall
it's iPconfig /all
You could also try typing: ipconfig /release
You'll then get some blurb while the network card is forced to dump any saved IP addresses, before it returns to the prompt.
then type: ipconfig /renew
The network card is then instructed to interrogate the current network in order to create a new, relevant IP address.
Your NIC is probably retaining the settings of your own network setup - happens a fair bit with older cards and on some new ones too. Remember to put a space between 'g' and '/'
You could also try typing: ipconfig /release
You'll then get some blurb while the network card is forced to dump any saved IP addresses, before it returns to the prompt.
then type: ipconfig /renew
The network card is then instructed to interrogate the current network in order to create a new, relevant IP address.
Your NIC is probably retaining the settings of your own network setup - happens a fair bit with older cards and on some new ones too. Remember to put a space between 'g' and '/'
yup, sorry, ifconfig is for linux, ipconfig for windows.
rest is still true.
the reason i want to see his /all output is to compare his and his friends setup. also to look at his friends subnet and gateway. a lot of ISPs are giving out ROUTERS and calling them MODEMs. the issue with this is they are locked into an IP scheme the prevents more then 1 connection of any kind so even a router behind it with NAT is worthless.
if that is the case, only 1 of the 2 computers can be online at a time.
also as for the release/renew when he boots up, or restarts those happen automatically for win2k and newer OSs. win9x sometimes had major issues with this but still a reboot "should" resolve the issue unless he is under a static IP, then /release /renew and reboots will NEVER work.
still waiting on a response to the questions, we need more info to really help.
rest is still true.
the reason i want to see his /all output is to compare his and his friends setup. also to look at his friends subnet and gateway. a lot of ISPs are giving out ROUTERS and calling them MODEMs. the issue with this is they are locked into an IP scheme the prevents more then 1 connection of any kind so even a router behind it with NAT is worthless.
if that is the case, only 1 of the 2 computers can be online at a time.
also as for the release/renew when he boots up, or restarts those happen automatically for win2k and newer OSs. win9x sometimes had major issues with this but still a reboot "should" resolve the issue unless he is under a static IP, then /release /renew and reboots will NEVER work.
still waiting on a response to the questions, we need more info to really help.
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