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Inserting Wireless Router Between Modem and Computer - An Oddity

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  Inserting Wireless Router Between Modem and Computer - An Oddity TaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft@me.com> - 2012-04-05 05:08 -0500
    Re: Inserting Wireless Router Between Modem and Computer - An Oddity Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2012-04-05 12:02 -0700

#6 — Inserting Wireless Router Between Modem and Computer - An Oddity

For a coup[le of years, at a friends, we had a wireless router 
connected between the modem and the computer, this allowing me to  send 
and receive things wirelessly on my laptop and my friend to send and 
receive things non-wirelessly on a desktop computer. Ethernet cables 
connected the wireless router to the modem and to the computer.

A few days ago my friend had the service replaced and in doing so a 
technician replaced the modem and left the wireless router out of the 
loop. When I replaced the wireless router again between the modem and 
the computer I could send and receive wirelessly from my computer but 
my friend's computer could do neither. The connections were made using 
the same ethernet cables that had been used before. Removing the 
wireless router from between the modem and the computer restored the 
ability for my friend to send and receive.

A number of attempts were made trying to insert the wireless router 
without success. This included powering down for a few minutes and then 
powering up the modem, the wireless router, and the computer.

So, I'd be interested in any suggestions as to how the wireless router 
can again be made to work and why it no longer works with the new modem.


-- 
James Leo Ryan - Austin, Texas

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In article <9u598iF6s4U1@mid.individual.net>,
 TaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft@me.com> wrote:

> For a coup[le of years, at a friends, we had a wireless router 
> connected between the modem and the computer, this allowing me to  send 
> and receive things wirelessly on my laptop and my friend to send and 
> receive things non-wirelessly on a desktop computer. Ethernet cables 
> connected the wireless router to the modem and to the computer.
> 
> A few days ago my friend had the service replaced and in doing so a 
> technician replaced the modem and left the wireless router out of the 
> loop. When I replaced the wireless router again between the modem and 
> the computer I could send and receive wirelessly from my computer but 
> my friend's computer could do neither. The connections were made using 
> the same ethernet cables that had been used before. Removing the 
> wireless router from between the modem and the computer restored the 
> ability for my friend to send and receive.
> 
> A number of attempts were made trying to insert the wireless router 
> without success. This included powering down for a few minutes and then 
> powering up the modem, the wireless router, and the computer.
> 
> So, I'd be interested in any suggestions as to how the wireless router 
> can again be made to work and why it no longer works with the new modem.

I had this problem when I switched from Crapcast to uVerse.  The 
Crapcast modem had no routing features.  It simply connected the signal 
from the cable and translated that to network packets.  I had a Linksys 
WRT54-GL after it to connect my network up.

Once I switched to uVerse, the tech said that their equipment is a 
full-on router and having a router after a router was a no-no.  I tried 
to set up my Linksys in bridge mode for about an hour but ended up 
giving up and taking it off the network.  Since the uVerse box has 
wireless features and the rest of my network worked just fine, I was OK 
with this.

If the equipment the new service provides is a router, you won't be able 
to put another in there unless it setup to bridge.  I could do this with 
the Airport Express box that's powering my stereo speakers but coudn't 
figure out how to do with the Linksys.  If you hook up your old wireless 
router, you'll have to configure it this way.  I leave that as an 
exercise for you.

Alternately, you can have the vendor replace their 'modem' with a 
wireless model.

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