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Can't get internet from satellites using a ethernet cable
Hello everyone, I purchased the ax4200 orbi system from Costco earlier today and it seems to work fine except for the reason I purchased it for. I have a older desktop with windows 8.1 and it only w...
I don't know.... how would I find what your asking for?
lalojamesliz wrote:
I don't know.... how would I find what your asking for?
I don't even know what operating system your using.
But supposing your using windows you need to look a the network interface settings, IP address, whether it gets it's address automatically (DHCP), default gateway and any other settings that might be relevant.
I don't use windows as my desktop and don't have one I can refer to at the moment so I can't be more specific.
- Oh sorry I forgot to post that. I'm using windows 8.1
I'll see if I can find that tomorrow. I need to wake up in a few hours to go to work 😩
lalojamesliz wrote:
Oh sorry I forgot to post that. I'm using windows 8.1
I'll see if I can find that tomorrow. I need to wake up in a few hours to go to work 😩I suspect that the thread you were refering to isn't related to the problem your seeing becuase if you your trying to plug a desktop into the satellite and you haven't changed the network settings it should already be set to what was recommended in that thread.
But we should check just in case.
raven_au wrote:
lalojamesliz wrote:
Oh sorry I forgot to post that. I'm using windows 8.1
I'll see if I can find that tomorrow. I need to wake up in a few hours to go to work 😩I suspect that the thread you were refering to isn't related to the problem your seeing becuase if you your trying to plug a desktop into the satellite and you haven't changed the network settings it should already be set to what was recommended in that thread.
But we should check just in case.
Umm ... Windows 8.1 ... I can't remember what that looks like so you'll need to locate the network adapter setting yourself, sorry.
Basically you want to look at the network adapter settings and report them here so we can see if there's anything wrong with them.