Wired internet connections dead?

jjsevdt

jjsevdt

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This will probably be long, so bear with me...

Yesterday morning everything worked fine. The internet on MY desktop was woking, but it stopped working throughout the day while I was out running around. I got home ans the internet didn't work. (Cox usually doesn't work on Saturday's so I didn't think much about it.) This morning I finished configuring the wireless card I got for an upstairs computer and the internet worked great. My computer (sig) didn't work. All network connections are fine, but no traffic goes to the internet. It shows in network connections everthing's good, but nothing works. Neither my main desktop or my "media server" connect to the internet, but my wife's laptop, upstairs computer, wii, and ps3 all connect wirelessly. It's only affecting Wired connections.

The only changes I made is installing Turbo Tax. I haven't made any changes on the dell "media server" and it's affected as well. If anyone can help please let me know.

Understand that everything has been connected this way since August when I got my new computer up and running. This is the first time something like this has happened to me.

My routers: Belkin N1 & Linksys WRT54G (looped to be a switch)
 
ok, have you tried power cycling the routers, next does the lights blink on the network card/ wireless router?, what is the ip address on the computers?
 
I've powered everything off and on a few times triing to get it to work.
These are all under the same subnet so Im not going to type the whole IP out.

Belkin Router: 192.168.2.1
Linksys: .50

My computer: .52
Dell: .57

While I was checking the IP adresses I noticed the dell is being assigned by the Belkin (default gateway: 192.168.2.1) and my computer (default gateway: 192.168.2.50). I'm going to look up how to set a static IP address for my computer. The dell is working now.
 
o well one thing, you should not have 2 dhcp servers. so i would have your belkin be a dhcp or which ever is at the front of the network and then disable the other one
 
I might have messed with it last night when I was adding the MAC for the new card... I'm checking now.
 
Ok, I tried a few things: tuned off the DHCP on the linksys, but when my computer tries to assign an IP address it gets "mad" because it was being assigned from the linksys. all my thoughts would have led me to beleive the computer would automatically find the other router. ...

While I was typing this I got a bubble in my brain. When I got my new computer I never added the MAC into my Belkin MAC filter, which does Wired and Wireless. I just made the change and everything is rockin' and rollin. And that's why I came here. Thanx brianmay. Although you didn't give me the answer, you helped me think in ways I would have on my own.
 
wait does your network work like this?

net2.png

or
net1.png

^^This one should work just fine...but if its setup like the other one then it would get confused with IPs

why do you have two routers?
 
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