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Does this occur if you wire directly into the modem?

I tried plugging my computer directly into the modem, and it worked wonderfully. I'm going to be picking up an ethernet splitter, so I can have both my router and my computer hard-wired into the modem (since I live with other people, I can't just hog all the internet to myself). Not sure why I didn't try that sooner!

Thanks!

I had a similar problem my first time back and not even hard plugging into the router fixed the issue(which lead me to believe it was my router). But I tried a new modem from my provider and it worked great (dropped a cisco one and got a much better one for free)

I also had to make sure
-Forwarding all of the recommended ports to my IP address on my network from my router
-Setting my computer to a DMZ Server

May be your NAT settings or something in your router, need to go through your manual and the router's settings.

Your modem only allows one 'computer' to be connected because your ISP is a standard level of jerkass, your splitter is just going to cause problems.

You need a proper configuration on, or perhaps as already suggested a new, router. The only thing you probably haven't tried is cloning your MAC address to the router just to be sure your modem isn't going 100% dickhead and only allowing the first thing that connects each time it powers up or renews, but if setting DMZ doesn't even work your router is simply a pile of sh*t.

I use some nasty vernacular to induce hostility, because it has always seemed to me that you must treat routers and modems as hostile and ignorant parties if you want to get to the bottom of why something doesn't work. Most commonly a router is just so cheaply made it can't handle more than about half a gigabyte of throughput before requiring a hard reset (late version WRT54Gs are notorious for this). The other plausible hitch, though less and less common over the past decade, is that the modem stores the first MAC address that connects to it and is hostile to any other, throttling and generally being a bitch if you try to change your network at all, because ISPs dishonestly intended or tried to upsell people on 'a modem that can have more than one computer connected at a time', and the practice of distributing modems that only allow a single 'client' (which can be your own router though) kinda stuck.

Edited, Jul 7th 2012 10:29am by Raelix