Can't Connect Though Router/Can through modem

Hi everybody, I was hoping y'all could help me out with my problem.
Yesterday I had a cable modem hooked up in my dorm room to my already installed TV cable. Everything was working great until I tried to install my WRT54G Router.
I can plug in my laptop directly into the cable modem and get internet fine.
I have my router set up and my computer can establish a wireless network connection to the router.
However, when I connect to the router, I don't get internet.
Here's what I have tried:
*Installing newest firmwire
*Installing Easy Link
*Running CMD prompt to see if the router is working-Does work
*Checking to see if it is a DNS issue(typing in googles IP address)-Didn't work
*Installing the software on 2 laptops and 1 PC to see if it was a computer issue.
*I even returned the router to get a new one without any luck
I have installed 2 of these routers before without issue. What the heck am I doing wrong? Please help me out, thanks

Always check the router's status page on http://192.168.1.1/ to see the status of the internet connection. It will give you an error message when you try to connect and it does not work. You should check that.
Also remember that wireless routers come in a very unsecure configuration out of the box. Anyone in your proximity can connect wireless to the router and make any changes to the configuration until you change the router's configuration password and secure the wireless network with WPA.
Do any configuration through a wired connection to the router only to avoid configuring your neighbor's linksys router which he runs open.
Some ISPs remember the MAC address of the device/computer connected to them to prevent users to connect with multiple computers at a time. A clear indictation of this would be if only a single computer can use the internet connection, i.e. neither the router or any other computer could.
If this is the case, it sometimes helps to unplug the modem from the power and wait a few seconds and then plug it back in, followed by the router. Then the ISP accepts the router's MAC address on the line.
If this does not work, you could also try the MAC address clone function in the router. This is done again on http://192.168.1.1/ Search for the function on the tabs and clone the mac address of the laptop for which the internet connection works when it is directly connected to the modem. (there is a button which copies the address) Remember to save the setting. After the change you may have to connect manually on the Status page of the router.
Another reason for this kind of problem could be that your modem is not a simple modem but also a router. If the modem and the WRT both use the network 192.168.1.* you have an address conflict and it won't work. It find out about this, you could connect the laptop to the modem and verify you have an internet connection. Then open a command prompt window ("Run..." and "cmd") and enter the command "ipconfig /all". Copy the output of this command into your next post. It will show what kind of connection and modem you have...

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