Right, let me explain.
Have just switched ISP from BT to Telewest, when on BT i had everything set up fine, networking my PC to a few others through a Netgear DG834 with individual IPs on each computer for port forwarding etc... Now plan on using the supplied Motorola surfboard 5100 from telewest to supply the net connection to both PCs for the time being (by simply swapping the network cable over on the back of the modem for whichever PC needs the net at the time) until i can get hold of a new cable router (see thread in connection forum) I ran through the set up process with inserting the blueyonder disc on this PC (sod's law, it's not mine) and everything has set up fine. The IP details have reverted back to obtaining IP/DNS addresses automatically. and all is working.
But the problem is that on my PC this isn't working, when it's going through the blueyonder installer set up and trying to do a DHCP renew it encounters a connection error saying "blueyonder installer could not renew the IP address for your network adaptor (DHCP)....check your cables....blah de blah blah" The only way i've manage to get around this is to go into the internet protocol properties for my connection and manually change the IP details and DNS server details from search automatically to the same details as this PC so that it knows exactly where to look for the cable modem. Once i've done this the Blueyonder installer doesn't kick up the connection error message and goes onto asking me to restart my PC, i click ok, the PC restarts and then the installer kicks back in to carry on where it left off, but everytime the internet protocol properties have gone back to obtain automatically and the installer kicks up the same connection error as before, unless i change the properties back again to manual and put in the details. In which case the installer then asks to restart the PC again and i'm in a damn circle.
I'm out of ideas here.
Please anyone, any ideas?
Bres