Back when I first got broadband, Optus set me up with an Alcatel SpeedTouch Pro which was a four port modem router. It seems that the modem part of it died during the week, so I went out to get a Netgear DG834 which is also a four port modem router.
Computers are supposed to make life easy, but no. Not this time. I hooked everything up and the desktop wouldn't connect to the new router. It could see that something was there, but was just couldn't get a connection happening.
I gave up on the desktop after a while and went with a laptop. This was fine. I then set up the Netgear wireless access point off the router and tested both the work and home laptops. Everything is looking good, except the desktop.
Now I have had a spare moment, I have chucked in a spare NIC into the desktop and it got a connection straight away. Looks like the onboard NIC and the Netgear router don't like playing together. Pity...
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