"good call IF other pcs were in same room or wirable up, but they aint :-(
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dont get it?, if they worked before, they will work in that masterPC1 config too... all your doing is replacing the little router with a masterPC1 all the LAn parts should be the same, other than disabling the routers DHCP and using the windows PC networking DHCP instead....
but lets move on as you have a green light on the router WAN now and that should be good.
right , so your directly connected LT is getting a valid WAN Ip in the same range as the 82.7.somethng.something your now seeing on the routers page, thats good.
is there a page on the router were you can enter a ping command, pinging
http://www.cableforum.co.uk from the router page proves its got a working VM IP from the internal DHCP of the CM, and the routers set for auto DHCP on the WAN port yes!
if the ping from the router page works but the LT ping to the same doesnt , then its likely a LAN setting thats wrong, not the VM WAN part, and thats OK for now.
if the router ping fails on the URL but works on ping 87.106.245.143 then its still good But the VM DNS are not being filled in automaticly, but thats not likely, so do both to be sure from the router page if it exists in your router device.
next you say the LAN part, remember that seperate to the WAN part, is getting or rather is set to give out an auto IP = 10.0.0.X (last digit obscured for obvious reasons!) range to the PC's.
you dont need to obscore the local LAN addresses as noone but You can access them as their behind the NAT of the router.
so it seems right now the router is getting a valid CM WAN Ip of 82.7.something.something and your LAN part of the router is trying to give out Ip ranges in the 10.0.0. range, were the PCs Ips in that same range before or a 192.168.1. range perhaps.
if not, then theres a little messing perhaps later, if your PCs are currently set for static IPs right now, they may need to be changed to auto IP or set the old range and I no they used already on the routers LAN pages, but lets get one LT working through the router for now.
rember theres two distinct parts to this, one the WAN side ofthe router were it needs to be set to auto DHCP to get its Ip DNS and mask from the CM.
and the second part were all the PC on the house LAN side get all their IPs and default route etc from the routers settings, its a chain, one part does not effect the other.
the CM has its one time DHCP server to give the connected device its valid IP,DNS,and mask etc, in this case your directly connected device, the LT when you connect this direct and power cycle the CM and PC.
OR the router when thats the first device inline and after power cycling the CM and then router...
the router have its own seperate local DHCP server to give the connected devices ON the LAN house side their valid IP,DNS,and mask etc.
the House PCs weather connected wired or wirelessly only really care about the router LAN side settings they get given.
the router cares about the right WAN settings its auto given by the CM, and the LAN things its asked to pass along as a totally seperate thing if that makes sense, how you doing, getting anywere!
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if your not getting anywere, do you have a spare PC? i'll call it 'masterpc1' with windows installed and two working ethernet cards, then you can try that option too...
just pull the router (your going to move it down the chain, disable its internal DHCP server and only use its LAN side ports, No WAN bit) and replace it with the PC plug one ethernet into the CM and one into the routers LAN port1, or use a spare dumb switch in its place as it is simpler if you have one in this masterPC1 as router mode, set the routers DHCP to off and run the MasterPC1 windows network wizard, picking the right ethernet card thats connected to the CM as your WAN connection, and the other as your LAN connection.
but times getting on and its been 30+ minutes waiting for a reply so im off soon as i dont like wasting my time, especially today.
CM<>masterPC1<>Dumb-switch<>other wired PCs on the house LAN
or CM<>MasterPC1<>(wireless)router-DHCP-Off<>other wired/wireless PCs on the house LAN