Rebuilding my home network >_<

**cheerio** · 11-01-2004, 11:33 AM

LowMile, sometimes your lease for DHCP expires, if you reboot during that time, it wont be renewed, and itll change. You should find out the address of the DHCP server, and use it to auto config your network.

**SnyperBob** · 11-01-2004, 01:11 PM

Originally Posted by LowMileLude

Uh... ok, this is odd.

All my apartment's PCs lost their IP addresses. It first started with my one roomate, then mine and my other roomate lost thiers sometime while we were gone. Had to force it to accept an IP just so I could dial the router. None of the wizards worked and reparing it just locked up the PC. Don't know how I fixed it... but it's working again.

Oh, yeah, this was on the 29th-30th

Yeah, i see that a lot on college campus networks. When the DHCP server goes down - it basically doesn't allow your machine to get an IP address. The people that already have an IP address are unaffected (as long as they don't reboot).

Since you are using wireless, it is probably related to that. I did see in your initial post that you disabled wireless cause you have 5 hardwired machines. Possibly check your settings again and see if it got re enabled some how

**LowMileLude** · 11-01-2004, 01:22 PM

I checked all the settings when I forced an IP upon it. Then I messed with network and internet connection settings. Rebooted, got the same error, clicked on repair network connection and it ran through some stuff real fast and it's working now.

My other roomate, didn't have to do anything. His PC had the issue. I shut it off, since I didn't have the Admin password to go in and change his settings. He got home from work and it worked fine...

**kandyman676** · 11-01-2004, 02:21 PM

odd, i was having a hell of a time keeping my modem online yesterday also. using Comcast @ Home broadband, with a linksys wireless router WRV54G. i knew it was not the router since I could ping internally. i had to keep logging into the router, release my DHCP, and renew. my IP never changed, and it repeated.

also as a sugguestion, you may just want to unplug both your cable modem and router for more then 15min to let the modem's cache clear out. that seemed to clear up my problem last night when I had it unplugged for a few hours with no power on either device.

**LowMileLude** · 11-01-2004, 04:03 PM

Yeah, I did that. That's alway's the ISP's answer to everything "you need to unplug everything for a minute then plug it back in." I reset the router (held in the button for x number of seconds)... it didn't change the IP or Password on it. Which it normally does after a reset. VERY odd it either didn't reset or the Bios flash keeps that info now.

I HAD been doing a bunch of changes, trying to set up an FTP, network file sharing, remote connect, adjusting firewall settings, etc. So I wasn't sure if it was one of those or not. I released DHCP on the router and it didn't work. Although, when I forced an IP upon my PC, it didn't allow for DHCP enabling... I had to set it back to autodetect and mess with some more stuff before it worked.

**binary.h4x** · 11-01-2004, 10:39 PM

*sigh* you jinxed me, now mine has gone off the hook.

**LowMileLude** · 11-02-2004, 08:29 AM

Did you get it back up? What OS are you using? My apartment is using XP Pro.

On the buddy that didn't do anything... I suspect when I shut it down, then unplugged/reset the router it might have had something to do with it. Try that.