thanks for reporting back with the good news.
On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 10:48:01 -0700, William
<William@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>Hey Barb,
>
>I am typing this to you on the computer that you just helped me to connect.
>Thank you very much and have a great weekend!!!!!!!
>
>"Barb Bowman" wrote:
>
>> some cable modems will require you to power cycle them between
>> connecting different computers/network cards because the bridging
>> table is expecting the mac address of the last computer that was
>> connected.
>>
>> you don't mention a router and state you connect direct to the cable
>> modem.
>>
>> unplug the cable modem and plug it back in. then power up the
>> computer that won't connect. what happens?
>>
>> On Thu, 9 Aug 2007 09:44:03 -0700, William
>> <William@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>>
>> >I am on vacation at a residence that has a cable modem. Windows XP connects
>> >to the internet with no problem, but I can not get Vista to connect.
>> >When I connect the Vista laptop to the ethernet connection on the cable
>> >modem, and click on Internet Explorer it lets me know that I am working
>> >offline.
>> --
>>
>> Barb Bowman
>> MS Windows-MVP
>> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/e...ts/bowman.mspx
>> http://blogs.digitalmediaphile.com/barb/
>>
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Barb Bowman
MS Windows-MVP
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