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connecting my cable modem directly to ethernet shouldn't be this difficult.

when I plug the modem in, it recognizes the connection and says connected with 100mbits, but I cannot get online. I tried uninstalling the NIC driver and plugging the modem in again but windows just automatically installs the driver that doesn't work (VIA Rhine Ethernet crap). I know for sure the ethernet works because I use it to get on xbox live.
does anyone know how to get my modem to work with ethernet?

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START, RUN, CMD, enter these:

ipconfig

Note the Default Gateway. Then do:

ping ***Default Gateway*** (it's a set of 4 numbers)

If you read "Lost = 0 (0% loss)", your NIC is ok. Then do:

ipconfig /flushdns
netsh int ip reset c:\resetlog.txt

Restart your pc. How goes it?

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