WOT: need computer help...., need to assign an IP address to a particular computer.... Options

[scottb]

on my network.

i have a linksys BEFSR41 and have 2 IP addresses through comcast (at least that is what they tell me).

i need to do the following:

find out my IP addresses

assign one of these addresses to my wifes work computer, and let the rest of the house use the other.


i have messed around within the router but as i don't know my ip addresses. i do an ipconfig and only get one ip address.

so any suggestions oh wise ones? my wife an i both work for the same company and the security system is such that only one log in per ip address is allowed (hence the need for 2).

hope this is clear enough....

thanks,

scott

[Richard Casto]

A few things to check. When you had both PCs connected, can you verify that you were actually getting two IP addresses from your ISP? I think you can check this by logging into your router and seeing what IP it is using on the WAN side. You would check this on your wife's PC by doing something like an "ipconfig /all" at a command prompt. I would think that both would be in the same IP range, have the same subnet mask and same default gateway. If you are both getting IPs from your ISP, you would then need to make sure that you both can access the internet at the same time.

This is grasping at straws here, but I wonder if maybe the ISP doesn't have you setup for the second IP?? That maybe the router starts up, gets an IP via DCHP. You login and it works. Then you boot up your wifes PC, it gets an IP via DHCP (but the ISP knows you only should get one, so they revoke the reservation for the first one used by the router) then she can get in, but then your connection is toast?