Sorry, I meant "as Paul and Steve have suggested . . ." - I got the questioner and responder mixed up.
On Jan 26, 2011, at 4:08 PM, Stan Halpin wrote: > I just moved my Apple Airport Extreme from a Time Warner net in one state to > a Charter net in another. Which amounts to the same thing. > > 1. As Paul and Jeffrey have suggested, first you need to reset your router > and then put in the new parameters. > a. Leave the Airport disconnected from the cable. But turn it on. > b. Use your Mac, turn on the Airport utility. It should "see" the > Airport. > c. Set up the Airport with wireless network name, password, DNS, etc. > 2. Turn off (disconnect) the cable modem. Turn off (disconnect) the router. > 3. Link the modem to the router. > 4. Turn both modem and router back on. > 5. Go surfing. > > You can do all of the above also by direct-connecting any of the routers to > your Mac, then using Airport utility (for Airport) or by linking to the > router via browser (try 192.168.1.1) and making the appropriate changes. In > any case, a key step will be powering off the cable modem after you have done > the router re-set. > > stan > > On Jan 26, 2011, at 3:33 PM, steve harley wrote: > >> On 2011-01-26 12:33 , Jeffery Smith wrote: >>> I just got switched from AT&T to Cox Internet service. They gave me a >>> non-WiFi modem, so I tried to connect it up with one of my three previous >>> Wi-Fi routers (Belkin, Apple, Cisco), and could get all three of the WiFi >>> routers to work but not one of them will attach me to the Internet (through >>> wireless or through an ethernet wire from the back). If I go directly from >>> the back of the Cox modem to my Mac, the internet comes up. For some >>> reason, my WiFi routers cannot seem to get the Internet signal from the >>> modem. I tried 4 different ethernet wires (between modem and router) just >>> to make sure that wasn't the problem. And I did make sure that the modem >>> was connected to the right ethernet connection (ingoing, not outgoing). >>> >>> Is there something obvious that I'm missing here? All three routers do make >>> a connection with my computers, but no Internet signal is detected. >> >> it could be any of a few things; have you double-checked the basics? for one >> thing, the ethernet cable should go from the modem to the WAN port on your >> router >> >> if the modem is keyed to only admit one MAC (not "Mac") address, you'll need >> to spoof that address on your router; also check how the modem is configured >> -- if the modem is doing DHCP you may need to set your router to bridge >> mode; you may also want to check the DNS settings on the router and reset >> them to Cox's DNS servers if they are set to the old AT&T numbers (not >> needed if you are using something like OpenDNS or Google DNS) >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
