removed wireless router and lost internet connection

[Guest]

For the purpose of trouble shooting a friends computer I hooked up his wireless router (netgear) to my cable modem. I plugged my computer into one of the ports on the router and it worked fine. After completing the repairs I un hooked the wireless router and returned the now working hardware. When I plugged my comp back into the cable modem I no longer have a connection. I'm guessing that the router somehow changed something on my comp and it's not changing back automatically. My cable modem does work. I've plugged a different comp into it no problem and tried my comp on another cable modem with the same results... no connection. The network connections in control panel shows that there is a connection but I am unable to ping any other computer. Any ideas would be appreciated.

PC....out

 

[Richard G. Harper]

What IP address does your router have, and what address is your computer
currently showing?

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For the purpose of trouble shooting a friends computer I hooked up his

wireless router (netgear) to my cable modem. I plugged my computer into one
of the ports on the router and it worked fine. After completing the
repairs I un hooked the wireless router and returned the now working
hardware. When I plugged my comp back into the cable modem I no longer have
a connection. I'm guessing that the router somehow changed something on my
comp and it's not changing back automatically. My cable modem does work.
I've plugged a different comp into it no problem and tried my comp on
another cable modem with the same results... no connection. The network
connections in control panel shows that there is a connection but I am
unable to ping any other computer. Any ideas would be appreciated.

 

[Karl Burrows]

The router was probably running DHCP which means it assigned an address to
your computer for its network. The cable modem assigns its own addressing
scheme from your ISP. Rebooting should fix your problem. If not, go to the
network properties and see if he assigned your computer a static IP address.
If so, check to automatically detect settings, reboot again and you should
be up and running.

For the purpose of trouble shooting a friends computer I hooked up his

wireless router (netgear) to my cable modem. I plugged my computer into one
of the ports on the router and it worked fine. After completing the
repairs I un hooked the wireless router and returned the now working
hardware. When I plugged my comp back into the cable modem I no longer have
a connection. I'm guessing that the router somehow changed something on my
comp and it's not changing back automatically. My cable modem does work.
I've plugged a different comp into it no problem and tried my comp on
another cable modem with the same results... no connection. The network
connections in control panel shows that there is a connection but I am
unable to ping any other computer. Any ideas would be appreciated.