yankovic fan 0 Report post Posted March 9, 2005 I recently upgraded to a cable internet service. We promptly connected our main computer to a router and have wireless cards in all of our secondary computers. Well I was trying to figure a way to access the printer from remote computers. I was toying around with the "my network places" and fooled with so many options that I cannot even recount them at this point. Without warning, all internet applications (yahoo, aim, ect..) immediatley went offline and the browser too was rendered useless. I restarted it and still nothing. We are getting service through the modem b/c I am still connected on my computer via the wireless card. Is there any quick fix to this? I can not locate the CD-rom that came with the modem to reset it up. I have until 4:00 pm Central time to solve this, otherwise my dad will probably evict me for ruining his internet. Any help would be appreciated. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jobber of the Week 0 Report post Posted March 10, 2005 Well, if you're all sharing the cable over a router, you're probably using DHCP, so open up your Network Connections in the control panel and right click your connection to the router. If it's wired, there may be an option to "repair" the connection. You could try that, barring that, choose properties, double click on TCP/IP, and verify that IP address and DNS are set to automatic. The connection may also just be disabled (the computer screens in the icon are black like they're turned off, connections that are active have computer screen icons lit up in blue), or it may have a Red X over it with some kind of problem. These situations explain themselves, if you have an X or something report what the error is. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dr. Tom 0 Report post Posted March 10, 2005 Without knowing what you changed, it's hard to say what you should change back. However, regarding the printer: install it as a local printer on someone's PC and share it. You can then install it as a network printer on the other PCs, with an address/location of \\<ip address>\<printer share name>. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
yankovic fan 0 Report post Posted March 11, 2005 Cool thanks guys My dad ended up accidentally fixing it... he's not sure what he did. Then a friend came over and did the printer thing (before I read this thread) and set it up, and then flat out charged me $20.00.... Cost of favors are rising. Again thank you very much though for the input. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
