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Well ever since my mom thought it was a bright idea to put 2 comps online, mcm2 wont work online. my ISP came over and hooked up this linksys "cable getaway" cable modem/router all in 1. Ive had someone walk me through the steps of tryin to open up ports and stuff but this router is different! do u think if i called them and they came over they could fix the problem? anyone have any ideas? this sucks...

If your PC works without the router than the simplest solution is to just make your workstation the DMZ.  The allows all ports to go to the designated IP address.

What I do at home is to pick an ip address outside the pool of dhcp addresses and then set the pc that I want to use for games at that ip address.   At my house I have 5 workstations, 3 servers, and 4 laptops. 

For example:

Say the pool of ip addresses for dhcp is 192.168.1.50 to 192.168.1.99 and I set the DMZ address in the router to 192.168.1.200.

All the workstations and laptops would use dhcp ip addresses and the DMZ stuff goes into the bit bucket.

Whatever workstation wants to play games they just switch their IP address to 192.168.1.200.  They play any game and then all incoming ports not part of a request will be forwarded to 192.168.1.200 and everything works.

When they are done playing they just switch back to using dhcp and the DMZ is effectively disabled.

Whey you set your workstation up to a specific IP address, you need to set your gateway to the ip address of your router and your dns to the ip address of your router.  Some router's use 192.168.0.x and if that's the case just switch all the above addresses to 0 instead of 1.

Bruce

Yeah ive tried to set all of that and somehow it didnt work? im probably just a moron and didnt know what i was doing but i tried typin in 0 and 1 and it was a no go..i dunno lol

The first place to start is what is the ip address of a pc that can browse the internet?

What OS are you using?

Bruce

192.168.0.11

Windows XP

If ya want both of em to work online try this...worked for me but i cant host
http://acv-team.com/router.htm

Ive tried everything, ive had 3 different people try so many settings and none of them were a go. I dont know?

this may sound stupid but did you check your firewall?

yeah the firewall is off