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Originally Posted by Stuart C
What you are describing is a classic symptom of the modem being attached to the wrong port on the router. Your router should have five Ethernet connections. One on it's own (and labelled Internet or WAN), and four grouped together.
The one on it's own (labelled Internet or WAN) is the one that that should be attached to the modem. The other 4 are for PC use.
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Originally Posted by southwell
Sorry i miss read your explanation. I would say the modem isn't in the WAN port, as Chris has pointed out too. Your router is basically acting like a hub instead.
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Right on the money !! The cable from the modem to the router was indeed plugged into a LAN socket instead of the WAN socket. This is my Mum's internet connection and it's not setup like I left it last time I was here ;-) I imagine one time she had a problem and tried unplugging and replugging the cables back in and put it in the wrong socket. As she most of the time only has either her PC or her laptop on (just one network client) she never noticed. It's only because I'm visiting and wanted to get in on the wireless action that we noticed :-
Cheers guys, I can't believe I just trusted the cables would still be in the right place
I'd like to think I'd have checked before going to PC world and buying an integrated router/cable modem, but who can say. Of course a new one would have worked right away and it'd be put down to being the Belkin at fault.
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