Wireless problem

[smallethic]

I have a D-Link wireless router which has worked for me before on my same setup. Having for some weeks been running my laptop on a direct connection from my cable modem I decided to switch back to wireless so that I could work from elsewhere in house. So I unplugged by cable from my laptop and plugged into the router.

All apparently is fine. The network is working and I am correctly logged into it, the signal strength is high - but the browser cannot find the connection. According to Correct Connect the IP address of the target cannot be found. How can this be? What can I do about it please?

[Lew]

Have you rebooted the cable modem?

[smallethic]

No, I hadn't - but now that I have it works! Many many thanks - but why should that be necessary? I had rerun the NTL broadband installer and that had no effect though presumably it would also have rebooted the modem.

[Lew]

IIRC, you need to reboot the CM to get it to recognise a change of MAC address.

[Chris W]

IIRC, you need to reboot the CM to get it to recognise a change of MAC address.

correct :tu: in theory you don't have to reboot the CM, but in practise you do...