Hopefully you wonderful folks can help me.
Recently switched from a 1.5/1.5 DSL from Qwest. (I live in Portland, Oregon.) I decided, after getting screwed by Qwest one too many times, that Comcast was my best bet from there. My DSL ISP was never to blame - not once. Qwest was always doing something...ya know.
Well, my Comcast cable Internet is running fine, but only on my computer. There are two other that I'm trying to get working, but for some reason, neither machine will acquire an IP address from the DHCP pool. Now, I have an Intel "InBusiness" switch that supports DHCP (Note: I'm getting activity on the Intel switch on all three machines, ie, the LED's flash when I plug the eithernet cable from the computer to the switch...yet neither of the two other computers will get an IP, no matter how many times I release/renew/repair/etc. My Linux machine won't acquire an IP address, either, so I'm wondering if this is something Comcast is doing? Would they not allow more than one computer to access the Internet? That couldn't be...my stepdad has several. Anybody got any ideas?
Oh, side note: The Intel switch was given to me by my stepdad, I plugged it in and my primary machine worked...there isn't any reprogramming I have to do on the switch, do I?
