-=PCTechTalk=- Re: Setting Comcast modem
- From: "Don Wilcox" <Dwilcox3@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 09:28:01 -0400
Port forwarding is a function in the router configuration. It is mainly
used in online gaming and certain other applications. I would think that
except for gaming, very few home networks would need port forwarding
enabled. Also, for security purposes it should be enabled when needed and
then disabled until needed again.
We have 2 notebooks and one desktop in our home network that share cable
access to the internet. Anomalies such as you describe happen ocassionally
to us also, but go away in a few minutes or an hour or two.
Don
----- Original Message -----
From: <HandsomeBlck@xxxxxxx>
To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, June 18, 2007 8:08 AM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: Setting Comcast modem
> In a message dated 6/17/2007 6:31:23 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
> Dwilcox3@xxxxxxxxxx writes:
>> If he typed in an IP address he probably accessed your router. Some
>> routers
>> use 192.168.1.1 as default address. If you are on DSL then the router
>> and
>> modem might be in the same case, in which case he might have been
>> accessing
>> the modem rather than the router. However, I can not imagine any
>> settings
>> in the modem to change. Its not like a dial up modem. A more accurate
>> name
>>
>> might be analog-digital converter.
>>
>> What kind of problems are you having?
>>
>> Don
>
> Don,
> Our home network is a PC (mine - desktop and laptop) and MAC (wife's -
> desktop and laptop). Yesterday morning, my wife could not access the
> Internet
> with either computer. No problems at all with my desktop. Later in the
> day, she
> was able to access the Internet with both computers. Weird.
> The Comcast black box is a broadband combination modem/router. Once
> the
> tech accessed the web site, there was a page/link that said something
> about
> port forwarding.
> With this information, can you determine if he was accessing the modem
> or the router?
>
> Thanks,
>
> HB
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