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I'm having problems with my setup and cable company is jerking me around. I signed up for broadband and got a Motorola SBG900 surfboard. Since I don't have a cable outlet where my PC is, I bought a Linksys WUSB54G wireless adapter. I went through the whole setup and everything seemed to be working fine, the linksys "sees" the modem (pretty strong signal) but gives the error cannot connect to the internet. Thinking that maybe it was a wireless issue, I decided to move the PC (temporarily) to hardwire it directly to the modem (via ethernet cable) and everything seems to be working fine, except that there is no connection to the internet (it will give me a message to contact service provider). I'm still getting jerked around by the cable company about linksys not playing well with motorola and that I need to contact motorola to change the encryption settings from (whatever motorola uses) to Hexadecimal encryption because that's what linksys uses. Any suggestions?
One thing that was perplexing was that the Linksys control center would see the Motorola (and a few other networks nearby); but when I opened the Network Connections in XP and asked it to search for wireless networks, it did not "see" any. Any thoughts as to why the Linksys control center saw 6 networks (and i was able to connect to an unsecured one just as a test); yet XP couldn't find any (not even the one that I had down the hall).
thnxGIVE ME PATIENCE!!!!

In an interesting turn, now the signal will show up on the XP Network Connections, all 5 bars are green (excellent connection) but still gives the following message: "Limited or no connectivity"...
now I'm really confused.GiveMePatience

Hmm not sure if this could be the answer but
Whats the IP adress?
What channel is the signal on?Im like curious george, but my names nick

remember you have to have to restart the modem when you switch it from the PC to the linksys or vice versa.

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