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multiple pcs - router
wonder if anyone can help.
i know i am being cheap and the best answer is to buy cable/wireless router: however i wonder if anyone has got this to work.
i am a new virgin user and online fine. however i have a pc and laptop both with wireless capabilty and working fine on old adsl line.
i can connect my new virgin modem via LAN to either unit and online fine. i can connect the virgin modem via a Dlink ADSL wireless router to either pc or laptop and the first unit goes online fine (it seems to be getting the ip via dhcp through the modem) but the second unit does not get ip address. whichever unit is connected first gets online then nothing. i also cannot get online via wireless ( using static ip locked to MAC using 192.168 range) on either unit (yes wireless conected and setup fine i can browse the router with ie) it seems the adsl router is working like a hub and not routing.
i do have the option of changing my router settings and adding a routing table and not use the pvc connection (adsl) but am assuming this would not work until i have a static ip assigned by virgin.
just wondering if anyone has attempted similar setup without using static ip WAN and has any useful pointers
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