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Anonymous   10-15-2009 at 10:10:41 AM

Hey all, Im staying at my uncles on vacation and he has time warner cable broadband. I brought my laptop and tried just swapping the lan cable from the back of his desktop into my laptop to get internet connection and it wont work. Is there anyway i can make this work or will i need a router?

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Catsrules   10-16-2009 at 02:25:55 AM
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It should just all auto configure and work. Unless your laptop network card is set to be a static IP
What OS are you useing?

I wonder if the ISP have only allowed your uncles desktop MAC address to the internet. My friend's ISP did that to him.

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