Linksys 4 port router & WAN

Linksys 4 port router with intergrated WAN

I bought one of these puppies the other day as I was about to have my one meg cable connection installed and thought it would be the easiest way to share it across my network.

But for the life of me I can't get it to work.

I can get my cable running through the nic of any of my pc's but when I plug them into the router and try to run the cable through that the cable modem won't connect. I get a link light but the packets being sent from my router to the cable modem just don't seem to be doing anything

The router is set up with all standard settings. DHCP is enabled and it is set up to act as a gateway(standard setting) rather than a router. Everything is as it came out of the box.

Please tell me I'm missing something really obvious that'll take me 10 seconds to fix when I get home


Any help would be greatly received.

Thanks for the ideas.

I seem to have worked out a solution for now but I'm not sure if it was the right way to do it.

Because I could get a connection through any of my computers but not through the router I cloned the MAC address and name of one of them onto the router.

Hey presto! I now have a fully functioning 1Mb cable connection running across all my pc's.

Hehe, man I always seem to find that if I play around with the settings I know nothing about for long enough it all turns out ok in the end.

too bad I didn't see this one sooner. Cloning the MAC address is a perfectly valid solution. But, you could have gotten it to work with the original MAC address by doing one very simple thing: Repowering the cable modem. Oh well.

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