04:00 Hrs AM.
Its assembled in Taiwan,
Model Number: 08004EU
Lights:
There are seven lights along its front: PWR,USB,ENET,U/S,SYNC,RDY
RDY and PWR are steady on lit. DNS is kinda flashing unevenly,
ENET is flickering fast for short bursts.
What type of cable are you using to connect (look for anything written on the plugs)?
Standard looking sort of cable, put together with those clear crimp-on
plugs, quite ordinary looking, 8-wire, works fine on my other stuff.
No writing on the plugs. Cable has manufacturers writing along it.
Hi markymoan,
read the instructions and follow them make sure you have your ntl password if it stops just reeboot it should continue ( says mark hopefully )
Yes, if you mean the instructions in the 'Help' on XP, there are (were)
two of us here, and we both read the instructions, very carefully, and
did exactly as instructed ... where possible. Yes i have my NTL password
but i dont know the name of the ISP. I am guessing that it is either
ntlworld, or ntlworld.com, or
www.ntlworld.com. I have tried all of these
in conjunction with my username in its entirety including before and after
the @ sign, and also with it just the bit before the @ sign, cos i am not
sure which it wants. There are many combinations, and we covered them all
twice. I dunno where we went wrong. Maybe three or four times.
Hi nffc,
If you're using >1 pc to access the net chances are you're confusing the modem with the MAC addresses being different. Now you can make them the same but that's not the best option. Better than that are:
- rebooting the modem when you change PCs
- getting a router
Well, i do have >(more-than)1 PC set up as a small home network, but i am
not connecting the XP machine into it,
I am just using the XP machine alone on the cable modem ethernet point.
So briefly, no, the XP is on its own.
As to the modem retaining the previous MAC Address, which will be
different, i thought that switching the cable modem off fot a short time
then back on while plugged into the new device, would re-set the MAC
address. Maybe it did, but that didn't help.
Sadly you have provided little info on your actual set-up so there's little we can do to help you specifically...
Its a shambles. it is a nightmare trying to sort out anything here.
The set-up as applied to this XP machine is straightforward enough, cable
comes in the window frame, into some little fixing box, down to the NTL
cable modem, ethernet wire goes to XP machine. The XP machine is a
homebrew put together by someone i don't know, for a guy a few houses
along from me. He has a new one now, and he has given this one to my
friend. It has been in use for about a year, till the guy got a new one.
We are trying to set it up to get internet access. Sadly, unsuccessfully
so far.
If there is anything that you would like to know, i will post it right
away.
Hi markymoan,
you can go for classic view
looks just like me or 98
Yes, i was thinking of doing that, cos i am sort of used to 98,
it might help me handle it .....
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04:50 Hrs AM.
Its getting a bit too late for me now, so i am going to go to bed,
maybe the new day will bring better luck.
Cheers, John
