Help!! Router problem!

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bloody hell, don't you think I tried a search engine, before i brought it here?! I don't need a manual, I just need to know how to remove the device off of my laptop and have the router on my main computer.

And that answer is in the manual. Plug the cable modem into the port marked Internet and then plug your computer and laptop into the LAN Ethernet ports, configure the NICS in all three to talk to each other as per the modem, and configure the router and modem to talk to each other as per the manual. In most cases just set the router and NICs up to use DHCP will do it. - - It's all there in the manual.

Shoot, I just did the same thing with a Netgear router exactly like this two weeks ago, and I just followed the manual.

So what happens if it says it will not work on this emulator? Because I literally want to throw this fucking router across the room lol. So I'm guess I will have to go to the routers Ip address and go from there?

http://www.dlink .com/us/en/support/product/dir-615-wireless-n-300-router

Just remove the space after dlink before the dot com. Manual, firmware, and other downloads are available. Just select your version in the dropdown list to populate the correct information.

The normal process is to connect the cable modem up to the router and have the router talk to the modem and the Internet, then the other computers set up behind that like any normal router or switch set up - a straight hardware connection that requires simple and basic NIC settings.

If you want to keep the cable modem connected to the main PC and set the router up behind that, then you basically set the main PC up to either bridge the Internet connect, share the Internet connection with software (varies with the OS) or set it up to act as a server / router to the other PC. In this case you need to create a software linkage across your main PC between the router and the cable modem, not simple and not recommended.

I also note you said emulator, if you have some software tunning in emulation mode you may need to set up the hardware info in both the main OS and the emulated OS - depending upon what you're using for the emulation.

About tossing the router, I can emphasis with that. I spent many hows fighting with getting the Internet working on the wireless router I set up a couple of weeks back. In the end the problem turned out to be a default Windows setting in Win 7 security policies to turn off the wireless NIC if it isn't used for 15 minutes and the old lady whose system it was usually took up to half an hour to type an email reply. Change the policy setting to NEVER and all worked well and has kept going since.

What troubleshooting have you done? It's difficult for me to be specific based on the details you've provided so far. What cable provider/ISP? Does your main computer get a public or private (NAT) IP address when it's online? Depending on your provider you may only be authorized to connect from that one computer/MAC address, which means you'll need to transfer that to the DLink.

With due respect to the TR community (and I include myself) you might get better answers from a site like broadbandreports.com. Someone there has almost certainly encountered the same scenario, but you'll need to provide specifics on your provider/modem/IP configuration.

Thought this was a technical forum.
Try to get help from a local IT Supporter - or go to school to get a little understanding of these issues.

When you unplug your PC from the ISP modem, plug the Internet modem into the port labeled [b]INTERNET[/b] on the DLink 615. Ports 1-4 are the switch you would plug your PC, Laptop, XBOX into. Plug the PC into [b]Port 1[/b].

Power everything down. Power up the Internet modem. Wait 30 seconds. Power up the Dlink 615. Wait 30 seconds. Power up your PC. Goto a command prompt and type [i]ipconfig /all[/i]. You should be able to use a web browser to connect to the IP listed as your gateway (Gateway is the DLINK615). RTFM for wireless setup or plug laptop into [b]Port 2[/b] on DLINK 615.

dhelms:

Some extra for you: if Charles Bundy's solution from above does not work, add this to the steps above:

1. Find the MAC address of your laptop, since that was direct-connect to router originally.
You can find the MAC address of your laptop by going to DOS command prompt, and enter ipconfig, hit [Enter]. It will be called "Physical Address:.... and look like 12-e3-f4-9a-75-0c
Make sure you get the wired adapter MAC, not the Wireless adapter MAC, Copy it down on paper.

2. Using browser, login to DIR-615 with default IP address 192.168.0.1

3. Set "My Internet Connection is" to "Dynamic IP"

4. Scroll down to the "Dynamic Connection Type " section

5. Enter the MAC (Physical) address, substitute colon ':' for the dashes between numbers
example: 12-e3-f4-9a-75-0c becomes 12:e3:f4:9a:75:0c

I also have NO IDEA what you are emulating nor where the emulation is being done.

However, I believe that jqbecker is on the right track with the instructions for cloning the MAC address.

While there are still a few ISPs that lock you into connecting to their network from a single MAC address for eternity, most have figured out that this is not realistic. But they will only allow a single MAC address to connect during the DHCP lease period. Unfortunately it may take days for the lease to expire. The easiest way around this is to release the connection from the machine that currently holds the lease (i.e. cancel the lease).

From the computer connected to the modem that currently has an internet connection:
1) Open the command prompt (Start->(all)programs->accessories->Command Prompt
2 ) type "ipconfig /release" (without the quotes), press Enter
3) shutdown the computer and disconnect the ethernet cable from the back of that computer.
4) Plug the cable you disconnected from the computer into the internet connector on the back of the POWERED DOWN router.
5) Power up the router,
6) connect an ethernet cable from one of the LAN ports on the router to your computer and power up you computer.

You should now be able to connect to the internet through your router.