Wireless problem

smallethic · 07-08-2004, 14:23

I have a D-Link wireless router which has worked for me before on my same setup. Having for some weeks been running my laptop on a direct connection from my cable modem I decided to switch back to wireless so that I could work from elsewhere in house. So I unplugged by cable from my laptop and plugged into the router.

All apparently is fine. The network is working and I am correctly logged into it, the signal strength is high - but the browser cannot find the connection. According to Correct Connect the IP address of the target cannot be found. How can this be? What can I do about it please?

Lew · 07-08-2004, 14:27

Have you rebooted the cable modem?

smallethic · 07-08-2004, 14:50

No, I hadn't - but now that I have it works! Many many thanks - but why should that be necessary? I had rerun the NTL broadband installer and that had no effect though presumably it would also have rebooted the modem.

Lew · 07-08-2004, 15:15

IIRC, you need to reboot the CM to get it to recognise a change of MAC address.

Chris W · 07-08-2004, 16:45

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mimizuku no Lew

IIRC, you need to reboot the CM to get it to recognise a change of MAC address.

correct

in theory you don't have to reboot the CM, but in practise you do...