Switched cable and dsl modems to different rooms problems help!

messiah34 · Post by **messiah34** » Thu Jul 24, 2003 2:06 pm

I traded my cable modem for my brothers dsl now both do not work in the different rooms different computers but when I switch them back they work, what could be the problem?.

mnosteele52 · Post by **mnosteele52** » Thu Jul 24, 2003 3:24 pm

Did you renew and release your IP on both pc's?

messiah34 · Post by **messiah34** » Thu Jul 24, 2003 3:33 pm

I forgot about that, how is it done on winxp?

mnosteele52 · Post by **mnosteele52** » Thu Jul 24, 2003 3:41 pm

Start run and type ipconfig /release then ipconfig /renew. Sometimes your IP sticks and you have to do this, even sometimes it requires a reboot.

dsl-jds · Post by **dsl-jds** » Fri Jul 25, 2003 2:52 pm

Did I miss something here? He swapped cable and dsl modems, so how can that even expect to work? Cable modem on dsl line and visa versa?

OD_Hunter · Post by **OD_Hunter** » Fri Jul 25, 2003 3:01 pm

he said that he had to renew his IP adrress

dsl-jds · Post by **dsl-jds** » Fri Jul 25, 2003 4:52 pm

Renewing the IP addresses was a suggestion to solve the problem and the directions on how to do that were given! I haven't seen a response on whether it did work. I'm still not sure that a cable modem will work with dsl and visa versa.