Recently I connected my computer to a local area network. I always connected to the internet via a USB cable to my cable modem. Since ive setup the LAN my internet only will access thru the LAN, and not the USB. Even if disable the LAN I still cant access thru the usb. How can I default the internet connection through the USB?
On Sat, 19 Jun 2004 19:26:01 -0700, "mateogp"
<mateogp@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>Hello,
>
>Recently I connected my computer to a local area network. I always connected to the internet via a USB cable to my cable modem. Since ive setup the LAN my internet only will access thru the LAN, and not the USB. Even if disable the LAN I still cant access thru the usb. How can I default the internet connection through the USB?
>
>
>Thanks!
>Matt
Matt,
If both the LAN and USB interfaces are active, you can encourage the USB to be
used by adjusting the Interface metric (Connection Properties - TCP/IP
Properties - Advanced - IP Settings tab), changing the metric for the LAN
connection to a higher value than for the USB connection.
If that doesn't help, post ipconfig and static route table.
Start - Run - "cmd". Type "ipconfig /all >c:\ipconfig.txt" into the command
window - Open c:\ipconfig.txt in Notepad, copy and paste into your next post.
Identify operating system (by name and version).
Start - Run - "cmd". Type "route print >c:\route.txt" into the command window -
Open c:\route.txt in Notepad, copy and paste into your next post.
Cheers,
Chuck
Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing.
Autoconfiguration IP Address. . . : 169.254.50.174
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.0.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :
"Chuck" wrote:
> On Sat, 19 Jun 2004 19:26:01 -0700, "mateogp"
> <mateogp@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> >Hello,
> >
> >Recently I connected my computer to a local area network. I always connected to the internet via a USB cable to my cable modem. Since ive setup the LAN my internet only will access thru the LAN, and not the USB. Even if disable the LAN I still cant access thru the usb. How can I default the internet connection through the USB?
> >
> >
> >Thanks!
> >Matt
>
> Matt,
>
> If both the LAN and USB interfaces are active, you can encourage the USB to be
> used by adjusting the Interface metric (Connection Properties - TCP/IP
> Properties - Advanced - IP Settings tab), changing the metric for the LAN
> connection to a higher value than for the USB connection.
>
> If that doesn't help, post ipconfig and static route table.
>
> Start - Run - "cmd". Type "ipconfig /all >c:\ipconfig.txt" into the command
> window - Open c:\ipconfig.txt in Notepad, copy and paste into your next post.
> Identify operating system (by name and version).
>
> Start - Run - "cmd". Type "route print >c:\route.txt" into the command window -
> Open c:\route.txt in Notepad, copy and paste into your next post.
>
> Cheers,
> Chuck
> Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing.
>
On Sun, 20 Jun 2004 16:18:01 -0700, "mateogp"
<mateogp@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>No luck... hopefully you can make some sence out of this.
>
>
>Thanks for your help, i really appreciate it.
>
>Matt
Matt,
OK, I've looked at your ipconfig and route listings. Were you connected to the
cable provider when you ran the listings? The cable modem is showing an APIPA
address, which says that there was no internet service on the cable modem. That
would certainly explain why you can't access the internet that way.
Cheers,
Chuck
Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing.
That does makes sence. How would i go about activating it?
Matt
"Chuck" wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Jun 2004 16:18:01 -0700, "mateogp"
> <mateogp@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> >No luck... hopefully you can make some sence out of this.
> >
> >
> >Thanks for your help, i really appreciate it.
> >
> >Matt
>
> Matt,
>
> OK, I've looked at your ipconfig and route listings. Were you connected to the
> cable provider when you ran the listings? The cable modem is showing an APIPA
> address, which says that there was no internet service on the cable modem. That
> would certainly explain why you can't access the internet that way.
>
> Cheers,
> Chuck
> Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing.
>
On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 10:40:02 -0700, "mateogp"
<mateogp@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>That does makes sence. How would i go about activating it?
>
>Matt
Matt,
That's a good question. I have to wonder why you'd have to activate it. Was it
de activated when you connected to the LAN?
I see the LAN domain is comcast.net. When you setup the LAN, did you connect
your cable broadband service there? Did you get a cable modem / router combo
unit maybe, but keep the cable modem?
Cheers,
Chuck
Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing.
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