you can see if you have got a connection with your router and going to the default ip address of 192.168.1.1 and seeing if it has got an external ip (I think mine startd with 82. without checking). Secondly, you can go to 192.168.100.1 and have a look at the modem config and see if it has locked onto the channels etc. I very much doubt any problems you have will be router related because Linksys are awesome