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Witty Username

Witty Username

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Got something wrong with your system? Not IT-oriented or want to bother asking your nephew or nerdy family member for help? Come to this topic and post your issues. I don't know how many computer literate folks visit the site as oppose to non computer literate, but I'm sure there's a couple of us that could help- or send you in the right direction
 
I'm fairly computer literate but I have a home network issue kicking my ***, atm.

It started when I got a new modem/wifi router from comcast, although there have been a few breaks in the clouds and I can find my desired devices (an internet capable tv and a stereo receiver) in a way, but they are no longer considered part of my home network and I can't connect to the internet with them or stream content to them from my PC. The TV and receiver are connected via a wireless bridge. A Nintendo Wii U is connected to the same bridge and is able to connect to the internet and download games from the Nintendo site.

I can go into detail if anyone thinks they can help.
 
my old PC died and we just picked up new one during boxing day - man do I hate new Windows 8.1. WTF came up with this idea? Maybe it will take time to get used to it but so far it is a headache..
 
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Gameface said:
I'm fairly computer literate but I have a home network issue kicking my ***, atm.

It started when I got a new modem/wifi router from comcast, although there have been a few breaks in the clouds and I can find my desired devices (an internet capable tv and a stereo receiver) in a way, but they are no longer considered part of my home network and I can't connect to the internet with them or stream content to them from my PC. The TV and receiver are connected via a wireless bridge. A Nintendo Wii U is connected to the same bridge and is able to connect to the internet and download games from the Nintendo site.

I can go into detail if anyone thinks they can help.
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What model is the router/modem? Im guessing they're simply not getting IP addresses from the DHCP server. Does the wireless bridge say it's connected to the network? In the router settings you can define manual IPs and set them to the MAC addresses to the devices (each IP based device will have it own XX:XX:XX:XX type address).
 
AKMVP said:
my old PC died and we just picked up new one during boxing day - man do I hate new Windows 8.1. WTF came up with this idea? Maybe it will take time to get used to it but so far it is a headache..
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Google "Windows Classic Shell." Download it, Install it, Love it, and send the developers a couple dollars if you feel able. . .
 
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Gameface said:
I'm fairly computer literate but I have a home network issue kicking my ***, atm.

It started when I got a new modem/wifi router from comcast, although there have been a few breaks in the clouds and I can find my desired devices (an internet capable tv and a stereo receiver) in a way, but they are no longer considered part of my home network and I can't connect to the internet with them or stream content to them from my PC. The TV and receiver are connected via a wireless bridge. A Nintendo Wii U is connected to the same bridge and is able to connect to the internet and download games from the Nintendo site.

I can go into detail if anyone thinks they can help.
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2 things, make sure that the IP routing is equal in the first 3 places. I believe Comcast (with the surfboard router) defaults out to 192.168.0.1 as the gateway, whereas other schemes might have been 192.168.1.1. If the TV and receiver are set to the 192.168.1.1 system, they will not connect. Either move the router to 192.168.1.1 or hardcode the TV and receiver to the 102.168.0.x IP system.

Next if you are running more than a couple devices, just hardcode all the IP addresses to your devices. For some reason I have found devices like printers and TV's will try to use an IP already being used by another device if they are supposed to be assigned by DHCP. It shouldn't happen that way, but it just seems like it does. If two devices are sharing the same IP, one of them won't work. Hardcoding the devices, although it takes some time, seems to make everything work out better. Again, make sure that you use the same three numbers from your default gateway (192.168.0.x).
 
warnin: spoilers below.

have yall seen dat movie swordfish? will i gain hacker skillz and whatnot if i use a computer wit a gun to my head and/or whilst gettin head? ya know, like in da movie? pls advise on how i can aquire these skillz.
 
framer said:
2 things, make sure that the IP routing is equal in the first 3 places. I believe Comcast (with the surfboard router) defaults out to 192.168.0.1 as the gateway, whereas other schemes might have been 192.168.1.1. If the TV and receiver are set to the 192.168.1.1 system, they will not connect. Either move the router to 192.168.1.1 or hardcode the TV and receiver to the 102.168.0.x IP system.

Next if you are running more than a couple devices, just hardcode all the IP addresses to your devices. For some reason I have found devices like printers and TV's will try to use an IP already being used by another device if they are supposed to be assigned by DHCP. It shouldn't happen that way, but it just seems like it does. If two devices are sharing the same IP, one of them won't work. Hardcoding the devices, although it takes some time, seems to make everything work out better. Again, make sure that you use the same three numbers from your default gateway (192.168.0.x).
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It was kind of odd that he mentioned he had multiple devices plugged into a single bridge, which would seem like would create IP conflicts. IPv4 on some devices, I imagine aren't always going to let the user manually configure their LAN IP. I'm kind of curious the type of bridge hardware he has set up, to see if it can handle multiple hosts.

We need to find out what model router he has so we can show him how to set up an extended lease time, release all the IPs, and renew all the devices.
 
The Blue Elephant said:
Whenever I type a website that starts with a P or an X a bunch of porn websites show up. How can I get rid of this?
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If serious, what browser are you using? Clearing cache and history will fix it on most browsers. If you're using Chrome, sign out of your Google account on one of their sites and try a search again. If it's not coming up anymore, congratulations, Google has figured out your gmail account looks up a like of x and p sites.
 
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If serious, what browser are you using? Clearing cache and history will fix it on most browsers. If you're using Chrome, sign out of your Google account on one of their sites and try a search again. If it's not coming up anymore, congratulations, Google has figured out your gmail account looks up a like of x and p sites.
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Thanks man but I was joking, I feel bad someone gave a legitimate response to my nonsense. I know all about that incognito mode and that clear browser history. A mans gotta remove his traces.
 
Witty Username said:
It was kind of odd that he mentioned he had multiple devices plugged into a single bridge, which would seem like would create IP conflicts. IPv4 on some devices, I imagine aren't always going to let the user manually configure their LAN IP. I'm kind of curious the type of bridge hardware he has set up, to see if it can handle multiple hosts.

We need to find out what model router he has so we can show him how to set up an extended lease time, release all the IPs, and renew all the devices.
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The modem/router is: Cisco DPC3939
Bridge: D-Link DAP-1522

Why would having multiple devices plugged into the bridge be odd? It's advertised as a 4 device bridge and worked that way for years.

Releasing all the IPs and renewing the devices seems like the right track.
 
Gameface said:
...in a way, they are no longer considered part of my home network and I can't connect to the internet with them or stream content to them from my PC. The TV and receiver are connected via a wireless bridge. A Nintendo Wii U is connected to the same bridge and is able to connect to the internet and download games from the Nintendo site.

I can go into detail if anyone thinks they can help.
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I don't know if 'being considered apart of the home network' means they don't have Internet access at all, or they don't have the same connectivity to other devices that you have with others. But finding out the domain of those device might help, because there's a workgroup on your Windows machines that allows others to read from it. Usually, when you change this, the default is WORKGROUP. My Computer > Properties, look for the Domain snig, and see correspond with that
 
https://i.imgur.com/1LZnJiS.png

Looks like framer was right in the sense that your bridge doesn't sense a gateway IP (as it shouldn't, because it's a switch) from your modem/router. Changing your modem/router's configuration to something within 192.168.0.* might be worth a shot.

Edit: Looking at your router's page, it might be https://10.0.0.1 login is admin/password
 

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Witty Username said:
https://i.imgur.com/1LZnJiS.png

Looks like framer was right in the sense that your bridge doesn't sense a gateway IP (as it shouldn't, because it's a switch) from your modem/router. Changing your modem/router's configuration to something within 192.168.0.* might be worth a shot.

Edit: Looking at your router's page, it might be https://10.0.0.1 login is admin/password
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Yeah I assumed he got the surfboard router that Comcast usually sends out. With the new Cisco router I guess the question would be why the bridge was needed?
 
My bad, I was assuming that the TV and receiver were wireless which they are probably not, thus the bridge. In that case, the wireless bridge is on a 192.168.0.*** IP schema and the router, as you pointed out, is on a 10.0.0.*** schema. They aren't going to talk to one another, unless you change the default LAN IP of the router to 192.168.0.1, which would likely have been the default IP of his last Comcast modem/router (which is why it worked.)
 
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