Router Hell

[Gandy]

I have for a coulpe of years connected a Blueyonder Cable Modem (Surfboard) to my pc via USB with no problem. I have now got another PC and decided to network the two. I have purchased a Trust 350BR broadband router and a D-link pci ethernet adapter. I have connected my modem via RJ45 to the WAN input on the router and then LAN on the router to the ethernet adapter also by RJ45. I have run the set up by accessing the router through firefox and IE6 and have been assigned an IP through the routers DHCP . I cannot however get a DNS address and Blueyonder refuse to give me one as it should be dynamically assingned. So far, I haven't been able to connect on one pc, let alone two. My IP/TCP settings on win xp are set to obtain these setting automatically. I have spent 20 mins on the phone to Blueyonder tech support @ �1.20 per min and they diagnosed a faulty router. I took it to a friends and this connected on his Blueyonder connection straight away. What am I doing wrong?

[WinFast]

Do you have internet connection on any of the PC's?  Is it that you can't see the other PC.  Have you tried pinging the other PC through it's IP Address.  You can obtain this address by tying ipconfig/all at a dos prompt.

[Sequin]

You may need to set the router to spoof the MAC address of your original PC - and you also need to run the Blueyonder Support tool to tell the modem to use the ethernet connector, rather than the USB port

[Gandy]

Winfast - I haven't tried to network the two PC's yet.  I just want to get one running through the router first. 

Sequin - Yes I have cloned my Mac Address, I have run the BY (Motorola) disk to configure to ethernet.  The lights on my router indicate that it is getting a spot on connection to my Modem. 

[mattie]

This may be a stupid question, but have you bought a cable router to go with your cable modem, they are not the same as adsl routers.

[Gandy]

yup, I got a cable modem