In article , Bob N. says...

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She went downstairs and
looked at the network connections and said both the 1394
and the Local Area Connection said disabled. She called
comcast, and they said to try connecting the main
computer directly to the modem and restart the computer.
When she did that, the Local Area Connection re-enabled
itself, HOWEVER it now keeps on signing an Automatic
Private Address instead of dynamically assigning a DHCP
address. Meaning she keeps on getting the 169.254.x.y
instead.

The computer gets a "LinkLocal" (169.254.0.0/16) IP address when it can't
get an IP address from a DHCP server. If this is happening when the computer
is connected directly to the modem, then either the computer is
misconfigured, or the modem isn't able to negotiate a connection with the
service.

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