Re: [OTish] NTL Broadband - Help needed please.

[HA <ha@xxxxxxx>]

I'm not familiar with the NTL setup but would have thought the STB 
would just be a modem which would suggest that you need some sort of 
router rather than plugging it straight in to a switch.

Alan Shields

On Sunday, January 12, 2003, at 07:03  pm, Keith Doxey wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Just been round to my father-in-laws house to help him get his
PC's
> connected to NTL Broadband.
>
> He already had one PC up and running after the NTL engineer had put
> sockets
> on the end of his CAT5 cable for him.
>
> The instructions he was left for getting his other PC on Broadband
> were to
> disconnect his main PC, but the NTL disk in the second computer and
go
> through the setup procedure again which involves rebooting the set top
> box
> ( a PACE).
>
> After doing this the second computer his second computer was on the
> net at
> super fast speed and had been allocated an IP address of
xxx.xxx.xxx.42
>
> The address previously given to his othe r PC was xxx.xxx.xxx.72 but
> the
> same subnet.
>
> After reconnecting his main PC, it failed to be allocated a DHCP 
> address by
> the set top box and WinXP ggave it a 169.x.x.x address.
>
> The only way to get his main PC back on the net was to diconnect the
> other
> PC and then reboot the main PC and set top box. It now had its 
> original IP
> of xxx.xxx.xxx.72 and worked a treat.
>
> Reconnected the second PC and it failed to be allocated an IP
address.
>
> The setup  is like this.....
>
> PACE STB ____10baseT____10/100Switch ______100baseT _____MAIN PC
>                                                   
> _____________100baseT
> _____Second PC
>
> The normal Network Icon doesnt show in the system tray, instead there
> is an
> icon for NTL Connect.
>
> I know several of you have NTL and have multiple PC's working over it
> so
> what have I done wrong?
>
> Thanks
>
>
> Keith
>
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