anyone here good at internet stuff?

[cloud88]

my internet dosent work...well my brothers does but not mine where using network
a friends dad told me its my network card that have get stucked in the wrong ip anyone knows how to fix it again i really want to play bg again over the internet


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/Luna
How do you prove that you exist?
Maybe we dont exist.....

[-Aragain-]

say again in plain english and i might be able to help... and more detail of your problem!

[cloud88]

ok ill try,only 13 (not so good at english)
everything i know is that when you press,start(on win98)then drive(i`ve got an swedish win98 so i really dont know what it says in the english verison) and type in winipcfg it will pop up a window whit something about adapters (you can check for yourselef) the ip-number there is wrong and i dont know how to change it a friend says that`s the problem
if you need something else write ok?

(i`ve just seen enough woken hours slavedriver!!!)well any way i gotta sleep so if you mail something now i`l get back on that next day well seya...maybe

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/Luna
How do you prove that you exist?
Maybe we dont exist.....

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[-Aragain-]

Ah i know about winipcfg and from what i know that just tells your current IP.

*looks around on his system*

Ok, I THINK you have a cable modem or something, unless its dial up ya gotta tell me.

Theres a whole bunch of crap you could do, including calling your ISP, which would be the best!

Now if your on a network (LAN, bunch of computers hooked up sharing files and all that crap), you need to register a new IP and/or Computer ID. What i mean by ID is that every Computer has a name, like @home gives you names like a-043f08gfh0hh and then the second computer for the network is b-08hef0rew0084 (made up IDs).

IDs are different then IPs which are addresses given to you once you get online, sort of like license plates to surf the internet. While ID's are permanent addresses.

Im trying to make this simple as to what i understand. I dont even know if you are on a LAN. So bare with me.

From what I understand 56k's get a new IP every time they dial in depending on the ISP. Cable internet like @home gives you one forever, and thats what the ISP gives you, and most likely you need to call your ISP to get your IP if you lost it. Only the host computer in the LAN network needs an IP, or so is it with mine. I think this is the same for DSL and T-lines, which host many servers online and shouldnt change IP in the first place.

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If your on a LAN and your not the host computer(first computer with the Cable hooked up to it), call your ISP and "buy" a new ID, for a new computer. @home makes you buy new ID numbers for computers at least. 56ks are messed up, i dont wanna talk about em.

Either way... CALL YOUR INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDER!!!!!!!!! THATS THE BEST WAY TO GET INFO AND MOST LIKELY WHATEVER I SAID MADE NO SENSE!

so uh, good luck, hope it helped a little.

-Aragain Leafstalker