Connected Pc to yellow cable from eircom broadband box

leon76

I recently moved office and I now work from home. Cut costs and all that.

I tried to connect to the net by plugging the yellow cable from the eircom broadband box to the back of the computer.

However I still cannot connect to internet. Does anyone know a solution to this problem. Wi fi and everything works fine with laptop etc.

regards

Leon.

mach1982

What was is plug in to to before ?
Is it fatter than a phone cable?

BTW it called a lan cable, i

colm_mcm

Sounds familiar, there isn't another LAN socket on the back of your computer other than the one youre using now is there?

leon76

mach1982 wrote: »

What was is plug in to to before ?
Is it fatter than a phone cable?

BTW it called a lan cable, i

Yes its a lan cable , yellow in color and thicker than a phone cable

dub45

Will the laptop work via the Ethernet? (make sure wifi is off)

leon76

Yes, I tried the cable plugged into laptop and it works fine. Wi Fi is off

leon76

No just the one lan port. The PC is around 7 years old!

TopOfTheHill

Is there a light turned on for the port number on the router that corresponds to where the LAN is plugged in

leon76

Yes the light is on.still no internet

dub45

leon76 wrote: »

Yes the light is on.still no internet

Did you check to see if the Ethernet card is properly installed? (device manager) also check in network places and see what it is saying about the connection.

colm_mcm

Go to

Start
Control panel
Network connections

See what's happening with the LAN

Maybe disabling, then enabling the connection would fix your problem.

Sorry, not very tech, just this works for me.



Edit, what he said ^^

Cork981

Make sure your ip settings are set to automatic, it could be that your office used a static IP address system that is still assigned to your network port.

Go to the command line interface and type ipconfig when the yellow cable is plugged in and you should have an IP address of 192.168.1.x