take me to your network administrator...

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18 years ago

Fri, Jan 20, 2006 4:05 AM

I have little experience with other newsgroups. But I have a networking problem.

Just put a router in my network because DSL became available here. Joy. An old computer ran the modem and LPT1 for the Designjet. That was all I asked of that box.

TCP/IP problem, can't do router and old computer at the same time. But I am told I can go straight from the router to the plotter. Port exists and plotter menu IS NOW SET NETWORK "ON".

Can anybody recommend a site for a networking NEWBIE? alt.comp.networking.routers does not seem to have much, er, traffic.

Or, by some strange chance does such expertise exist here?

TIA

roy

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18 years ago

Fri, Jan 20, 2006 8:41 PM

After we hooked up the DSL we also had to get a router for our household. We called the router company (D-Link, in our case) and they walked us through the correct settings so every port worked correctly.

Just a thought.

JGM

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18 years ago

Sat, Jan 21, 2006 12:54 AM

Yeah. D-Link is what I have. I talked with their tech support when I wanted to set up the wireless router. Used it for a while and I think the USB connector for the computer went bad. I reinstalled the router on the network for the WAN connection. THAT MUCH WORKS.

D-Link tech support was, er, inconsistent last time. Called 4 or 5 times and got different answers. Some answers were just plain wrong. I am hoping to avoid them if I can.

I think I need software from HP to assign an IP address to the plotter. Been through the D-Link set up software through my browser and I can see no place to do what I want.

thanks.