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Shelly · 04-30-2002, 09:13 PM

My brother-in-law has OOL and a SB4100 modem (Motorola I think). It has connections for USB and nic. He has been using the USB for almost 1 year now with no problems. I am selling him my Netgear RT314 router so him and my sister can browse at the same time on 2 computers. When I try to connect his modem (without the router) to the computer with the nic, using WinXP and everything else software wise good, it doesn't connect. I know the computer is setup right because I have DSL and tried it at my place and it connects in 2 secs. So I am thinking that maybe since we can't even get the modem to work with the computer (without even throwing the router into the mix), I was wondering if there was a way to test the nic connection on the modem to make sure this isn't the problem.

04-30-2002, 09:13 PM	#1
Shelly Cooling Neophyte Join Date: Nov 2001 Posts: 36	Testing an Optimum Online modem? My brother-in-law has OOL and a SB4100 modem (Motorola I think). It has connections for USB and nic. He has been using the USB for almost 1 year now with no problems. I am selling him my Netgear RT314 router so him and my sister can browse at the same time on 2 computers. When I try to connect his modem (without the router) to the computer with the nic, using WinXP and everything else software wise good, it doesn't connect. I know the computer is setup right because I have DSL and tried it at my place and it connects in 2 secs. So I am thinking that maybe since we can't even get the modem to work with the computer (without even throwing the router into the mix), I was wondering if there was a way to test the nic connection on the modem to make sure this isn't the problem.