Setting up Comcast High Speed Internet with a Linksys Router ?

Procedure to connect your cable modem to the Router

• Try connecting directly your cable modem without router and check if you can get online.

• Once you've verified that you can get onto the internet without the router please proceed. If you cannot, please contact your ISP for further assistance.

• Now unplug the Ethernet cable that connects to your DSL modem from the back of your computer.

• Take the connection that you just unplugged from the back of your computer and connect it to the WAN port of the router.

• Take a different Ethernet cable and plug it into the port closest to the WAN port, or into the LAN port.

• Look at the front of the router.   The following lights should be illuminated.

1. Power
2. WAN Link
3. Link/Act (On the port that you connected your computer to)

• Hold the Reset button on the router for 30 seconds or more

•  Restart your computer

Checking the MAC address of your Computer

Please follow these steps from the computer that was connected directly to the internet without the router.  If you do not, then you may not be able to connect to the Internet properly.

            A. Windows 9x/ME

1.      Click on the Start button and click on the Run option

2.      When the 'Run' window opens, please type in winipcfg. Click the OK button

3.      When the IP Configuration comes up, click on the gray box the black arrow and select your Ethernet card.

4.      Please make note of the "Adapter Address"

            B. Windows 2000/NT/XP

1.      Click on the Start button and click on the Run option

2.      When the Run window opens please type in cmd and click the OK button

3.      When Command Prompt appears type in ipconfig /all

4.      Please make note of the "Physical Address"

Configuring the Router

1.      Go to your desktop and double click on Internet Explorer (Located on the Start Menu in Windows XP).

2.      When "Internet Explorer" opens type http://192.168.1.1 into the "Address" bar and click on Go.

3.      The "Enter Network Password" window will appear.

4.      Skip user name and type admin (admin is the default password) as the password, and click OK.

5.      By default the router will be set to Obtain an IP Address Automatically.

6.      Click on the Advanced tab.

7.      Click on the Mac Addr. Clone.

8.      When the page loads, input the Adapter/Physical Address you made earlier and input it into the proper fields.

9.      Click Apply

Finishing the Setup

1.      Shut down your PC.

2.      Unplug the power from the back of the router.

3.      Unplug the power from the modem.

4.      Wait for 30 seconds.

5.      Power up the modem.

6.      Wait for the lights to stop blinking.

7.      Power up the router.

8.      Start up your computer.

9.      Surf the Internet.

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