Hello, hopefully someone here can help me. Anyway, I'm trying to set up a wireless Linksys router. The router's set-up asks me to connect directly to my modem so that it can automatically set everything up for me.
However, when I connect my laptop directly to my dsl modem (Verizon), my connection always comes up as limited/no connectivity. I've tried everything on
this page but nothing has worked. The strange part is, when I hook my modem to the Belkin router and have that connect to my laptop, my connection is fine.
Whenever I try to repair my connection when I am directly connected to my modem, the repair always stops at Renewing IP address, and tells me that the network was unable to assign a network address to my computer.
Is there any reason why my DSL connection would not work when I connect it directly to my laptop, but works when I connect to the internet through my Belkins router? I have no active firewalls except for the XP firewall.