They Put it into the Wrong Hole

Well, earlier I explained how I cannot get cable television from the cable company so I ordered it from my telephone and internet provider. This turned into a hassle because my home network went nuts. Welllllllll, I fixed it with the help of a customer service rep and it only took about 2 weeks. After concentrating on my end of things, we finally looked at there end and guess what? Originally I had a speed stream dsl modem with a netgear router. I started having some issues with dropped internet and resetting the netgear fixed it, but it was happening a lot more often, and the netgear had some age on it, so I bought a linksys. The linksys didn't resolve things, it turned out to be a software issue with one program, but my wife stuck the netgear in a box and put it into a storage shed and my in-laws managed to toss it, so spare router went bye-bye. Anywho recently I upgraded to a linksys wireless n router with 4 hard ports and everything was nice/nice. Then they came in and switched my speed stream modem for a comptrend broadband adsl modem/router, 4 port and wireless g. Sounds cool, and looking up the exact model, which I don't remember and I am not home so can't look up, it's got a reputation as a good, heavy duty router. They hooked my main pc into this router along with both cable boxes and my linksys. My main pc was the only one with internet access. Well, after about 30 minutes of ip changing, resetting ect. with me on my cordless phone, the phone company sets those routers up so they have 3 video ports and only one internet port. My pc was in the internet port but my router was in a video port. All I needed to do was set my linksys to a static ip outside the comtrends range and plug the wan into the internet port of the comtrend. That's right, I didn't even lose a lan port on my linksys. I even left it a dhcp server. Then just set up wireless security and William's your mother's brother.