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fatbastard · Rated NC-17

Just to give you some background, I picked up a router and PCMCIA card for my sister Black Thursday of '05. Installed it and had no problems other than the occasional reboot of the router. That is until last spring, at that point the wifi stopped working and they were having problems connecting the desktop to the internet as well. So they by-passed the router and connected the desktop to teh internet directly.

A few months back I was over for dinner and took a look at it. The desktop would get an IP addy from teh router but I couldn't do anything. I even tried pinging the routers IP and nothing...I wass very confused, connected back to the modem and left. Later my sister told me that she enabled software in AOl that only allows communication through AOL.

So the next time I went over I brought my router and laptop. But after all my b!%@#ing about AOL she had uninstalled it or so she thought. Even though the uninstall program said there was nothing left, AOL was still "functional" I tried several things but was never able to make her router or mine work, but again if you direct connected it you could get online.

Yesterday I am there messing around again and decide to uninstall AOL for real. I went into all the AOL subfolders and looked for uninstall.exe files and ran them. This time it was gone. So I reinstalled AOL. Again desktop to modem was good but her router did nothing. I connected my laptop to the modem and it worked fine. Then I put my router in and the desktop worked and I could connect my laptop to it. I looked at the IP addys: her router is 192.168.1.1 mine was 192.168.0.1 and it looked like teh server they were connecting to was 192.168.1.44 or 47 so I thought there might be a conflict but I don't know enough about this stuff.

So last night I brough her router and mine back home. Both work flawlessly, so I decided I woudl give her mine and I would use hers, the only hurdle left was to get her laptop to connect to my router. Well, I was only able to get it to connect to the router twice. The router showed it was connected and the software controller on the laptop indicated internet available but it wouldn't open anything. I tried several settings and then it started saying it was connected to teh router but wass getting an IP that was way off. I also tried connecting her laptop right to the modem and it couldn't get an IP. When I brought her laptop home and powered it up, it connected to my network no problems, the only catch is AOL has to be open and connected.

Does this make sense to anyone? Could there be something in AOL that is fubaring this whole thing? I just don't get why it works at my place but not hers, granted they were purchased as set but that shouldn't matter at all. Any ideas?