boyxiong
join:2009-07-18
Onalaska, WI
| Westell 327W Limited or no connectivity
To make a long story short...I have Centrytel internet/tv/phone service. Three computers at home, 1 with wireless, 1 on ethernet, and my desktop. My computer is newly built and has a wireless network, but i want to be connected through ethernet.
Once my friend and I finished building my computer at his house, I was able to connect to the internet(using ethernet) with his centrytel internet modem(which is different from my Westel 327w). Once I brought my computer back home, the wireless connection was fine and worked. i disabled it and try connecting through ethernet, but got "Limited or no connectivity".
Went through Centrytel support tech 2 times and nothing is solved.
The weird thing....my mothers desktop thats in the same house is connected through ethernet. I took my tower and connected it to her wires and her ethernet cord that centrytel installed and my computers internet worked fine. Did the same with her tower with my wires and her internet didn't work. It came out saying "Limited or no connectivity".
After going through with Centrytel support, first we figure that my ethernet cord that I was using was bad. So I bought a new one and still it didn't work. After talking to them one last time, they said it might be my ethernet controller/network card. So I called ASUS and they said that it shouldn't be my network card because my computer had internet working in two different area, my mothers and at my friends house.
So now i'm guessing that its something to do with the Westel 327W modem that i have.
Sorry for this long long post but please help me out as much as you can. thank you.
-my motherboard- ASUS P50 pro turbo |
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nwrickert
sand groper
Premium,MVM
join:2004-09-04
Geneva, IL
 ·AT&T U-Verse
 ·AT&T Midwest
| It's hard to diagnose based on that description. You would probably want to do some testing to narrow down what is happening.
My first thought would be a cable problem, or a connector problem either at the end of the cable or the ethernet port on your adapter or the ethernet port on the modem.
You should check the modem to see if the light is on to indicate an ethernet connection at that port.
I guess another possibility is extreme electrical noise in the vicinity of the cable that is interfering with the problem.
And then there is the possibility that some firewall software on your system is blocking the DHCP requests and preventing your computer from getting an IP address. Have you tried manually assigning an IP address to the computer (say 192.168.1.100) to see if that solves the problem?
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impala
join:2008-03-08
Clemson, SC | reply to boyxiong
327W ethernet is 100mbs. you probably have a gigabit ethernet card. Try locking it's speed down to 100mbs to match westell. You SHOULDN'T have to do that, but .... |
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