After spending many "useless" hours getting wrong answers from both Verizon (our ISP) and Linksys in Irvine, CA - we finally (on the 3rd day and many hours) got hold of someone who said: "simple solution - some of our Routers require a crossover Cat 5 cable rather than a Patch cable. We put a crossover cable between the Verizon Modem and our Linksys Router and it lit up like the proverbial Christmas (OK - a Hanukkah Bush)tree.

So if you're having problems setting up your Linksys Router, try a crossover cable. Solved our problem in the time it took to plug in both ends.

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by SALA7 edited by Lanik
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