"pjp" wrote in message
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| Asked for little advice awhile ago so thought I'd update how sat dish
| install etc. went.
|
| If you remember, I have 8 pc's all networked via a switch. They all run
both
| Netbuie and TCP/IP. I know Netbuie's not required but it's there for
| historical reasons with File and Print sharing bound only to that
protocol.
| The TCP/IP protocol used fixed IPs mainly to facilitate one of the pcs on
| the network acting as a dialup proxy server, using PCAnywhere, some
in-house
| gaming and the like.
|
| Along comes this high speed internet sat dish. Therefore purchased a 4
port
| router. Before dish was installed, I connected router to pcs and existing
| switch. Change router to not assign ips electing to keep them static. All
| existed as before.
|
| Guy comes with dish. All he knew how to do was connect Sat modem to a
| solitary pc running XP!!! Turned out was more luck than anything he even
| knew where dialog box was to change from static back to dynamic under XP
and
| stated no clue at all about 98SE. He was totally confused by fact I have a
| second nic in the XP pc and obviously knew nothing about basic networking
at
| all.
|
| In any case, I come home to cables disconnected, router/switch unpowered,
| cables off back of pc etc. etc.
|
| So here's how it went down and all's now working.
|
| Take router and plug into modem on WAN port.
| Take a laptop, plug into router, call up setup, change to dynamic ips.
| Change laptop accordingly also. Reboot both.
| Router comes alive, screen shows it's acguiring lease etc. and in a moment
| there's IPs etc. (seen via browser on laptop)
| Laptop immediately can connect and surf. It has a dynamic ip in range of
| router.
| Plug other pcs into router directly or leave in switch and connect switch
to
| router.
| For every other pc (98SE or XP) change to Dynamic IP, insure "Never
connect
| ..." under connections is set and clear out Proxy server info.
| As each pc rebooted, it got a dynamic IP address and immediately could use
| the sat connection.
|
| Blimy, I hate paying people good money to find out they know even less
than
| I do when I feel I know so little myself
|

Well, sadly that story of the unqualified installer is not all that
unusual,,, one always hopes for a qualified one though. Seems, to turn a
higher profit for the business and investors, the cash outlay for
experienced support and installation personnel has been drastically reduced
in all businesses. If a business is essentially the only provider of
something, and it may not even be overly concerned with disgruntled
customers.

We're glad you were able to walk through the issues yourself, and you have
definitely earned that sense of accomplishment. One future issue may be the
re-start after a power outage, just make sure you follow the Internet/SAT to
local route at power-up routine with dynamic addressing.

Have fun, and keep up with that local security, its truly a jungle out
here.

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MEB
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