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nyarlathotep
September 2nd, 2006, 01:10 PM
Can you just plug a cable modem in and go or are there any extra steps I'm missing?

I ask this because after a new HDD and OS I've noticed some connectivity issues I didn't have before. Mainly it's a little laggy with actually pulling up webpages (that's in both IE and firefox), sometimes it stops accessing the page altogether where I have to pull the cat cable that goes to my computer out then put it back in and it works again. Also I started BF2 again and after a while of playing I get connection problems warning and disconnected.

TIA
Pipes
September 2nd, 2006, 01:33 PM
maybe ipconfig/renew
Noirceur
September 2nd, 2006, 05:09 PM
Can you just plug a cable modem in and go or are there any extra steps I'm missing?

I ask this because after a new HDD and OS I've noticed some connectivity issues I didn't have before. Mainly it's a little laggy with actually pulling up webpages (that's in both IE and firefox), sometimes it stops accessing the page altogether where I have to pull the cat cable that goes to my computer out then put it back in and it works again. Also I started BF2 again and after a while of playing I get connection problems warning and disconnected.

TIA
I'm pretty sure with comcast modems you can just plug it in. You may have to powerstart it though.
lucky644
September 2nd, 2006, 05:44 PM
Just let xp know you're directly connected, and not on a lan, and it should release you a wan ip, if not, it'll be a 169 lan ip.

I'm pretty sure with comcast modems you can just plug it in. You may have to powercycle it though.

Fixed.
nyarlathotep
September 3rd, 2006, 03:45 AM
Ok I never turned off the power just removed the cat cable, I'll try that. I'll look at the other stuff too. I also seem to remember someone posted a site that shows you how to tweak firefox into better performance but I can't find it.
Mirsky
September 3rd, 2006, 04:03 AM
You can install the FasterFox plugin that'll do the heavy tweaking work for you

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1269/
Noirceur
September 3rd, 2006, 05:21 AM
Just let xp know you're directly connected, and not on a lan, and it should release you a wan ip, if not, it'll be a 169 lan ip.



Fixed.
I've heard both terms thrown around, he knows what I mean:p