Chris is right here. In the US, these boxes have a battery, so pulling the plug and replugging it will not work. You need to find the reset button, on the Motorola boxes I have used you need a unfolded paper clip to reset the box. Your cable vendor should also be able to do this remotely. Your best bet is really to get a firewall router that supports NAT. Otherwise you are subjecting your PC software to too much open visability. Apple airport will work, but so will Linksys and other inexpensive home routers.
Jonathan On Aug 26, 2009, at 3:39 PM, a radix wrote: > I have only a cable modem, it is not even a real router (it has no > internal firewall for example) although i use it for phone and > internet. > Greetings, Anouk, > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Chris Blouch > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 7:42 PM > Subject: Re: my macbook pro is here, problems with internet > > Strange. The Macs and PCs use the same DHCP protocols to get an > address. Is this going right from the router to the Mac or do you > have a firewall/NAT/wireless thing inbetween. If it is direct then > sometime the cable modem reads the hardware address of your computer > and needs a full power cycle to let go and read a new one. > > CB > > a radix wrote: >> >> Hello, my macbook pro arrived this morning via ups I must say its >> quick, i ordered 8 days ago via bank transfer and a custom >> configuration. >> Everything works fine although i get lost in a few dialogs. >> I cant connect to the internet htough. I use a cable modem and >> udner windows i can just push in the network cable and I am ready >> to go. Not so now htough. >> Any idea of what routers work best with the mac? I was thinking of >> getting a linksis pre-n router, will that work? >> If i just configure the touter right and it works on the pc should >> i also just be able to plug it into the mac for it to work? >> Greetings, Anouk, >> >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
