<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd"><html><head><meta name="qrichtext" content="1" /><style type="text/css">p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }</style></head><body style=" font-family:'DejaVu Sans'; font-size:12pt; font-weight:400; font-style:normal;">(Trim) > Steven, > okay, afaik the "real" manufacturer of your modem is > Motorola, but this does not matter to us. > > The general idea is, that you connect the router port > labelled "WAN", directly to your modem port labelled > "ethernet", then connect any computer that you might have, > to the multiple "LAN" or "Ethernet" labelled ports of your > router. > > Then, if the router works in the factory default mode, it > should connect any computer that you have to the internet. > > At least this is the basic idea how it works, when Modem and > router device are separated insteas of integrated into one. > For sure, this is not to say that there are no "special > cases" around. > > Kind regards > Eberhard Dear Eberbard, The router does not seem to be working. To write you, I had to reconnect the Ethernet cable to the modem to write this. I connected as you said. I connected the cable from the router to the modem in the first slot above the other. When I do the same thing with the broken computer, it still does not connect to the Internet. By that I mean, when the modem is directly connected to the broken computer. I don't really understand this, because I expected the laptop to retain connection when connected like you asked. The last time that I had the laptop working and both the laptop and another computer were connected to the router at the same time, both computer's worked, at least both connected to the Internet and could send emails. That is the reason my surprise. I haven't made any changes that I remember since that time. Excuse my not getting back sooner, I took a fall and am not well yet. Steven</body></html>