I am trying to connect to the internet using a USB Ethernet adapter. It installs but won't connect to my dsl modem. The ethernet light on the modem doesn't even light up, though the same cable works plugged from the modem to the ethernet port on hubby's laptop. I thought the adapter was all I needed to connect..what am I missing?
Can someone please help point me in the right direction I really am stumped.
Apr 29 '07
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Hi, I'm not a developer or programmer or techie, just someone who uses 3 computers in my business. I had the same problem at one point. I have basically the same setup and equipment as you (and number of computers, we'll call them Main, Second and Third) After months of frustration I found it was a third-party firewall that continually created problems with my network. So I uninstalled it (and actually never used it again, because it gave me nothing but problems). Then I went back to square one, like this: with all computers on and all (Windows) firewalls off (this was a key thing, to have all the firewalls off), with router and dsl connection on Main, set up and configured Network Connection on Main. Set up and configured Network Connection on Second (my laptop which has its own ethernet card), then plugged in the USB Ethernet adapter into Third, and set up and configured Network Connection. Then turned each computer's firewall back on. And it worked, and has worked ever since. I live in an area where there are occasional problems with the phone lines, so have to reset the router by turning off/on. But that's it. Networks are tricky.
I am trying to connect to the internet using a USB Ethernet adapter. It installs but won't connect to my dsl modem. The ethernet light on the modem doesn't even light up, though the same cable works plugged from the modem to the ethernet port on hubby's laptop. I thought the adapter was all I needed to connect..what am I missing?
Dunno if this applies or not, but you may need an Ethernet crossover cable rather than a straight-through one. It could be that your husband's laptop automatically detects the kind of cable and compensates, while yours doesn't.
IT WORKS!!!! :) Thank you all so much for the help. I tried shutting down the firewall, that didn't work, though I thought that might be it, it was the cable in the end, I plugged in the crossed over cable and it just worked. My son will be very happy when he gets home from school...we made him do a lot of dishes to get the adapter in the first place, parental guilt has been running kinda high..lol
Thanks again
Jenny
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