I just moved my Apple Airport Extreme from a Time Warner net in one state to a
Charter net in another. Which amounts to the same thing.
1. As Paul and Jeffrey have suggested, first you need to reset your router and
then put in the new parameters.
a. Leave the Airport disconnected from the cable. But turn it on.
b. Use your Mac, turn on the Airport utility. It should "see" the
Airport.
c. Set up the Airport with wireless network name, password, DNS, etc.
2. Turn off (disconnect) the cable modem. Turn off (disconnect) the router.
3. Link the modem to the router.
4. Turn both modem and router back on.
5. Go surfing.
You can do all of the above also by direct-connecting any of the routers to
your Mac, then using Airport utility (for Airport) or by linking to the router
via browser (try 192.168.1.1) and making the appropriate changes. In any case,
a key step will be powering off the cable modem after you have done the router
re-set.
stan
On Jan 26, 2011, at 3:33 PM, steve harley wrote:
> On 2011-01-26 12:33 , Jeffery Smith wrote:
>> I just got switched from AT&T to Cox Internet service. They gave me a
>> non-WiFi modem, so I tried to connect it up with one of my three previous
>> Wi-Fi routers (Belkin, Apple, Cisco), and could get all three of the WiFi
>> routers to work but not one of them will attach me to the Internet (through
>> wireless or through an ethernet wire from the back). If I go directly from
>> the back of the Cox modem to my Mac, the internet comes up. For some reason,
>> my WiFi routers cannot seem to get the Internet signal from the modem. I
>> tried 4 different ethernet wires (between modem and router) just to make
>> sure that wasn't the problem. And I did make sure that the modem was
>> connected to the right ethernet connection (ingoing, not outgoing).
>>
>> Is there something obvious that I'm missing here? All three routers do make
>> a connection with my computers, but no Internet signal is detected.
>
> it could be any of a few things; have you double-checked the basics? for one
> thing, the ethernet cable should go from the modem to the WAN port on your
> router
>
> if the modem is keyed to only admit one MAC (not "Mac") address, you'll need
> to spoof that address on your router; also check how the modem is configured
> -- if the modem is doing DHCP you may need to set your router to bridge mode;
> you may also want to check the DNS settings on the router and reset them to
> Cox's DNS servers if they are set to the old AT&T numbers (not needed if you
> are using something like OpenDNS or Google DNS)
>
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