OK, hopefully the LJ tech brain-trust can help me out here. I’m hoping I’m overlooking something simple/stupid.

The problem:

I can only connect with one PC at a time to the internet thru my 4 port router and new cable modem.

Equipment:

-          Comcast high-speed cable modem with phone capabilities.

-          Basic Linksys 4 port (non-wireless) router

-          Two identical PCs running Vista

Details:

Just got my new Comcast cable modem installed (it’s the one with the built in phone too).  Hooked directly to PC, works fine.

Added my old 4-port Linksys router. Needed to power cycle all the pieces to get it to work (turn off PC, turn off router, power cycle modem, turn on router, turn on PC).

Went to plug in wife’s PC, did not want to connect.

Shut off my PC, rebooted her’s, still no luck.

Kept mine shut off, power cycled the system (turn off  wife PC, turn off router, power cycle modem, turn on router, turn on wife PC), it connected!

Turned on my PC, no connection, wife’s still working.

Turned off wife’s PC, rebooted mine, no luck.

Did the full “trio power cycle” on my PC and it works.

Wife’s PC on boot up will no longer work.

See the pattern?

I’ve tried leaving the modem on and power cycling the router and PC, still no luck. The modem needs to reset in order for the new IP connection to work.

I looks like I need to power cycle/reset everything to get the IP connection to refresh and connect. But then it won’t let me connect more than one PC at a time. Both PC’s can connect, but not at the same time. The PC’s were also just part of another router setup that is no longer in use. I don’t know if that would have anything to do with it, but the more info the better.

Any thoughts?

Thanks in advance for all your help.

After what is probably 2 ½ years, I’ve FINALLY finished my Valsgarde 6 helm from Zweihammer’s Armoury kit. This was from his first set of kits he sold and is 12 gauge. Aventail is one of Master Knutt’s flat ring welded stainless. Shirt is flat ring riveted (stainless also). Fighter is in need of a diet. Please ignore the leg and arm harness, it was used so I could try out the new helm with maile shirt at practice last night.

The full kit will have hidden legs with proper foot wear and the lower leg-wrappings (can’t remember the proper term for those). Hidden arms with new gambeson with hidden back pockets to slide in hard plates for kidney protection so the only visible armor should be the maile and helm (other than hand protection). And a HUGE shout out to Sean Powell from the Archive here who lent his shop space, thoughts, guidance and patients in this process.
 

For those that like the details, notes on the construction:
We modified the kit some (obviously) since I wanted the hanging aventail around the band line and right up to the ocularum from the beginning. The nasal is shortened. Removed the three “tabs” that were off the bottom of the eye pieces so we could more easily attach the leather strip and mail. The back slats shapes are more gentle so the maile hangs better. We could not get the original mouth/chin piece to work where it didn’t end up looking odd at best and most of the time like a gorilla, so we just ended up with some ½ inch stock bars instead since it’s under the maile anyway. The finish is done with an industrial powder coating. The color is an antique gold/bronze that was close to what we were looking to do anyway and the shop just happened to have enough leftover from a previous project where I did not have to order a full 5 pounds of a new color.

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So, we have a nice 55 gal fresh water aquarium at our house. We had recently lost some of our longer time residence (most likely just to age) so I decided to add a couple more fish in to keep the population level even and add some color. So I picked up some neon tetras and 3 sunburst platys...
 

Apparently, they were not all male as the pet store said. We think we have 2 female and one male, because in short order, we had at least 2 new generations of baby platys. An apparently, none of our other fish eat other little fish, so they spawned and all seem to do fine….and I mean ALL of them. We just had our fish guy who cleans our tank take out the majority of the “baby” platys. He removed ~40 of them from 4 generations total. He left 11 (including the 3 original). So we had over 50 of these fish in our tank. Geeze….