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Originally Posted by Jaswant
Tried all the suggestions that seem to work for others - not in our case!!
Remember this an odd setup - both the set top box and cable modem exists in the same household.
Even if I plug the laptop directly to the cable modem - I don't get an IP address only the old desktop gets an ip address.
I even tried clone mac address on the router - still no luck - anymore suggestions before I throw the cable modem out ?
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You MUST power cycle the cable modem after changing connections to it. The modem is configured by NTL to be shy, it will only talk to the first device it sees and ignores strangers. It also may refuse to talk to more that 2 devices in any 24 hour period (I was told this limit had been removed) which may explain why the laptop cannot get an IP from it.
You should reset the WRT54G to factory defaults- press and hold reset button for 30 seconds - then try again with it. The default router IP address is 192.168.1.1, and default dhcp range .100 so it is clear from your post that someone has been playing with the settings. (But you say this has been swapped 3 times???)
What version WRT54G and what version firmware is it running? If it is V5 or later Linksys have recently posted updated firmware which fixes some dhcp bugs - but mac users are still having troubles.