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Hi ppl, I am currently using a USB cable modem under Win XP (yeah I know....not good ) Anyway I want to use a network card but I am unsure how to configure from one to the other. Anyone point me in the right direction?

First you need to look at your modem and see if has a plug for a J45 line.some modem only us usb.If there is not one you will have to get a new modem .If it does have one just add a lan card to your computer and run a cat5 line from the modem to the lan card in you computer . After window xp has install the new card just unplug the modem for about 30 sec. and plug it back in . that about it.

Thnx for the reply, yeah my cable modem is either USB or J45, but my problem is what do I have to do to configure the computer to use the card rather than the USB? Is there anything that I need to uninstall/configure so that the pc doesn't think it has to use the USB drivers to connect to the internet?

When I went from USB to NIC, I unplugged the cable going into the USB and put the RJ45 into the NIC. I then rebooted and the OS saw the NIC and the cable connection. I still had to go to the NIC vendor website and download the drivers but it was basically plug-and-play.

I'll try that thanks, lol...I thought it would more complicated than that, much appreciated

If windows install the nic! that about it

Originally posted by Fragman
I'll try that thanks, lol...I thought it would more complicated than that, much appreciated

Let us know how it goes. We here at Speed Guide like to help.

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Bah...It didn't work, whatever I tried to configure the card it still wouldn't work. It's a Netgear FA311 card and the drivers are on the Win XP disc so no probs with them. When I looked in Network Connections it said the device was working properly, but the Local Area Connection/activity only had either recieving packets and not sending or vice versa. Would not connect to the internet or recieve e-mails. Man...it's back to USB I'm afraid..and its lousy "drop the cable modem to pc connection just as I'm in the middle of a UT clan match" routine
Thanx for your time ppl, this a great site for help and will certainly read the forums ( and be back with more probs no doubt...lol )

Guys this is a cable modem. He propably had to release his IP address from the USB connection first. If this is not done, the DHCP at the cable company will still show that he has a lease on an IP address and will not lease him a second one. You need to go to start, run, type winipcfg, then choose USB in the drop down menu and you will see there is still an IP address listed there. You need to click release all. Then unplug the USB connection and connect the RJ45 jack to the ethernet card. again open winipcfg and choose the ethernet card and click renew all. If this doesn't work then call your cable company and ask them to release the IP address, sometimes it does not release on their end. If you want to use ethernet don't take no for an answer from these guys. The RJ-45 jack is not there for looks, it's there for use. Don't accept the answer of "just use the USB if it is working". If it comes down to it, then ask for a different modem with only RJ-45 or ask for a free months service because you are not getting the service you asked for.

Hmmmm, I am using xp and it doesn't have winipcfg, is there an alternative in xp? Failing that I will call my isp to release the ip address and take it from there...thnx again

You need to go to an MS-DOS command prompt.

Then type ipconfig /release. It should show everything released then type ipconfig /renew.

That should do it.

Good Luck,
ToolBoy

Question, do you not have to specify a network adapter in that command line? what if you have 2 adapter what do you type. I have not had much experiance with XP. I hear nothing but bad things about it. Let me know for personal knowledge thanks.

ipconfig /release <adapter>

That will allow you to specify which adapter to release or renew.

If you don't know the adapter name(s) you can first run ipconfig /all - that will display all the adpaters known to the system


Skye