Twizzle
April 18th, 2008, 06:23 PM
This is not specifically a Ubuntu question which is why I am posting it here.
I have Ubuntu running in my study and XP running on my media PC. I used to get my broadband from BT and had the BT Home Hub plugged into a Netgear Switch and then to the two PC's.
I have just changed to Virgin Media Cable (20 Meg...:cool: ) and moved my Ubuntu to a different room at the same time. When I plugged everything in, the Ubuntu PC worked just fine but the XP machine would not connect to the internet. I thought that in my moving I might have bent an ethernet cable too much and broken a wire (I have run ethernet all over the house) and so spent a good few hours re doing it (under crawl spaces and in the roof etc.....).
I turned on the XP machine and again it would not connect so I have carried it up to the office and plugged it into the switch with a short ethernet cable. You may have guessed where this is going - it does not work!
I have read somewhere that the Virgin modem will not allow you to share a connection (it only has one ethernet port too). Before I go out and buy a router to replace the switch, is there any way of me testing the set up any further?
Also, is a router what I need to replace the switch?
I have Ubuntu running in my study and XP running on my media PC. I used to get my broadband from BT and had the BT Home Hub plugged into a Netgear Switch and then to the two PC's.
I have just changed to Virgin Media Cable (20 Meg...:cool: ) and moved my Ubuntu to a different room at the same time. When I plugged everything in, the Ubuntu PC worked just fine but the XP machine would not connect to the internet. I thought that in my moving I might have bent an ethernet cable too much and broken a wire (I have run ethernet all over the house) and so spent a good few hours re doing it (under crawl spaces and in the roof etc.....).
I turned on the XP machine and again it would not connect so I have carried it up to the office and plugged it into the switch with a short ethernet cable. You may have guessed where this is going - it does not work!
I have read somewhere that the Virgin modem will not allow you to share a connection (it only has one ethernet port too). Before I go out and buy a router to replace the switch, is there any way of me testing the set up any further?
Also, is a router what I need to replace the switch?