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I got my Netgear wgm124 mimo router today and everything looked fine. I hooked it up and configured it on my pc (XP), but when I try to connect my mom's Apple Laptop it won't connect, it won't give it an ip address with dhcp in either wireless or wired modes. How can I fix this, the pc is working fine. I think maybe the computers are going directly to the modem which only hands out one ip. How would I check for this?

Thanks,
Nathan

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I just found out that if I manually assign an IP within the range I put in the router and connect with my WPA password on the mac that it works. What gives? How do I get DHCP working?

Thanks,
Nathan

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I did some more testing tonight and found that even when the Mac is the only computer connected to the router that it still will not get a dhcp lease. It come up with the 169.254... crap. I don't get it? It connects perfectly fine when I do DCHP with manual address. The good news is Netgear support so far has been great, I called tonight and the hold time was not bad, and the tech tried his best to help me. When he could not, instead of giving me the bull line basically saying "This is not a problem with OUR equipment so your screwed," he contacted the 2nd teir techs, (Which I believe are in the states, but I am not sure) and they are going to call me back tomorrow. He even had them make sure to call back after 4pm, because I am not home before that. I sure hope this works out good, the performance is great all the way across our house in the family room, full signal strength according to the Powerbook's meter, it dips a little bit when first connected, but then I guess the router looks at the connection and changes the antennae output or something and the signal strenth surges back.

Thanks,
Nathan

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