Ok guys, I am new to this pc stuff so here goes.. I just bought a router and am trying to hook up a second pc to my cable modem. At first I couldn't get any of them to work but now I atleast have one working, the main one, through the use of the router. Don't ask me how, I just hooked up the ethernet cable from the modem to the router, and from the router to my pc on the first port. Then I hooked up the second pc to the second port but I can't get online. i do have lights on the router on the second port so I think it's connected. I think it has to do with a setting,,, I am guessing. I read some of the threads on here but it seems like there are more serious problems than mine,, or shall I say a bit too in depth for me to comprehend. I'm hoping mine is a simple problem, help anyone? The second pc is a dell poweredge 2300 server running win xp. The router is a D link, di 604. pretty straight forward. need more info? let me know... thanks for the help!

From a command prompt on the server that can't get online, run an ipconfig /all and paste the results.

Thanks fof the reply Matt. Ok here goes... Primary suffix... node type.......unknown ip routing enabled....no wins proxy enabled......no ethernet adapter LAN connection specific dns suffix hsdl.nh.comcast.net description.. intel(R) pro/100+ server adapter (PiLA 8470B) Physical address...00.d0.b7.47.4f.37 dhcp enabled...yes auto config enabled...yes ip address...192.168.0.103 subnet mask.....255.255.255.0 default gateway.....192.168.0.1 dhcp server........192.168.0.1 dns server..........192.168.0.1 lease obtained...sep,,27, 2005 lease expires....oct. 27, 2005 that's it. doesn't make much sense to me but as long as I can get it to work : ) Thanks for the help!!

On the back of your D-Link 604 you will find four LAN ports and one WAN port. Do you have the network cable from your modem plugged into the WAN port? If not, plug it in there, and use the LAN ports to run network cables to your PCs.

Yes i do, I connected the cable modem to the wan port, and the two pc's one to port one and the other to port two. The main pc is working fine through the router, it's the other pc that does not connect. I do have lights on the router, the power ofcourse, the wan, and link one and two. I read up on how to ping each pc from the other but it just times out. Thanks for the help.

Ok,, here's what I found. I decided to plug in the client pc directly to the modem and it worked, than I plugged evrything back to the router without plugging in the usb to the host pc and it worked! Well the client pc worked but not the host. ??? WhenI plugged the usb from the host back into the modem, the host ps works but not the client. what gives?? Any ideas?? Thanks!

It may be your ISP recognizes you client's MAC address (the first computer). If so check you router's setup for cloning the MAC address.