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Originally Posted by Oldvinyl
Thanks Zovat
I'm afraid i am a total technophobe. Somebody on another site told me it was "easy" to fit an Ethernet card ..... that much was true, but, they never tell you about the nightmare of gobbledygook us novices need to get to grips with to make stuff work.
Could you tell me in simple terms that a ten year old would understand
a; how on a STB you will need to register the MAC of the new card and,
b; how to check an IP address for it ?[/
Thanks
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ok - if you are on a set tob box, then all you should need to do is stick any old address into your browser - it
should then redirect you to the relevant page...
this will then register the MAC address of the card (this is a unique hardware address for the card - it never changes, and is set on the card itself) - the MAC address is normally on a sticker on the card - but I am not sure whether you will need to know it - or whether the NTL site recognises it automatically.
to check the IP, run a command window (from the menu select "Run" then put "command" into the box), this should give you a DOS like prompt (white text, black background - something like "c:>" as a prompt.
type "ipconfig" in this window - you should get something like :
Microsoft(R) Windows DOS
(C)Copyright Microsoft Corp 1990-2001.
C:\>ipconfig
Windows IP Configuration
Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : dhcp
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.101
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1
C:\>
(please note - I run a router and firewall - so my IP will be very different to yours)
The important thing is that "IP Address" - let us know what it is, and we should be able to tell if it worked (stuartbe knows way too much about networks for his own good
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HTH - let me know if not (or PM me if you would rather)
Zovat