no connectivity

I have a comcast modem and use a netgear router for a wireless connection to
my second PC. Everything was fine (I did have problems with my wireless
adaptor connecting on my second PC but that's for another day). I downloaded
McAfee security from comcast and soon after I lost my connectivity for my
main PC. I called comcast and they said my PC was not communicating with my
modem (could not pick up the IP address) the only thing I could think to do
was uninstall McAfee since that's when the problem seemed to start, still no
connection even when I dropped the netgear router and connected comcast modem
to my PC. I ended up reinstalling windows XP and now I can get a connection
when I directly connect comcast modem but when I try to connect the netgear
router I get the same problem I had before. No connectivity, no ip address.

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Jeri wrote:

> I have a comcast modem and use a netgear router for a wireless
> connection to my second PC. Everything was fine (I did have problems
> with my wireless adaptor connecting on my second PC but that's for
> another day). I downloaded McAfee security from comcast and soon after
> I lost my connectivity for my main PC. I called comcast and they said
> my PC was not communicating with my modem (could not pick up the IP
> address) the only thing I could think to do was uninstall McAfee since
> that's when the problem seemed to start, still no connection even when
> I dropped the netgear router and connected comcast modem to my PC. I
> ended up reinstalling windows XP and now I can get a connection when I
> directly connect comcast modem but when I try to connect the netgear
> router I get the same problem I had before. No connectivity, no ip
> address.

Sounds like the Netgear has died. Try a different router.

Malke
--
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
"Don't Panic!"
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User

Malke

"Malke" wrote:

> Jeri wrote:
>
> > I have a comcast modem and use a netgear router for a wireless
> > connection to my second PC. Everything was fine (I did have problems
> > with my wireless adaptor connecting on my second PC but that's for
> > another day). I downloaded McAfee security from comcast and soon after
> > I lost my connectivity for my main PC. I called comcast and they said
> > my PC was not communicating with my modem (could not pick up the IP
> > address) the only thing I could think to do was uninstall McAfee since
> > that's when the problem seemed to start, still no connection even when
> > I dropped the netgear router and connected comcast modem to my PC. I
> > ended up reinstalling windows XP and now I can get a connection when I
> > directly connect comcast modem but when I try to connect the netgear
> > router I get the same problem I had before. No connectivity, no ip
> > address.
>
> Sounds like the Netgear has died. Try a different router.
>
> Malke
> --
> Elephant Boy Computers
> www.elephantboycomputers.com
> "Don't Panic!"
> MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
>

Thanks Malke, I was thinking the same thing, I have been using this netgear
router for about 2 years and never had a problem before. I will try buying a
new one. Thanks for your reply.

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