LINKSYS vs. NETGEAR

I have a nic (Netgear wg311T) (108 Mbps Wireless PCI Adapter) (108Mbps G, 2.4 Ghz 802.11), which connects to a Linksys router (WRT 350N). My problem is the connection to my nic and the router is only 54mbps when the router is capable of speeds higher than 54mbps, how do I resolve this, is there a firmware update or any configuration I can do to my router.

Buy a different adapter. The netgear adapter is a super-g adapter. It is basically 802.11g which netgear specific enhancement to get the double speed out of it. The WRT350N uses the latest 802.11n standard. While 802.11n is backward compatible with 802.11g and 802.11b this excludes the enhancements. Thus, if you connect to a 802.11n router with a 802.11g super-g adapter you'll still only get 802.11g speed, i.e. 54 Mbit/s. This is even the case if you had a 802.11n netgear router. The super-g enhancement of 802.11g is incompatible with 802.11n. Those enhancements only work with super-g netgear routers. The same applies to linksys adapters/routers with speedbooster. That is Linksys's enhancement to get double speed out of 802.11g. But it is incompatible with 802.11n. Thus a 802.11g speedbooster adapter will only connect at 54 Mbit/s because that is what is compatible with 802.11n.

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New router (switched from Linksys to Netgear 750 - HP J4680 printer all in one - and MAC

My husband puchase a new router - (we were told our old router failed on us) - we had no problems setting up the netgear 750 from the linksys router we originally had - we have a MACBook Pro
My HP printer J4680 - ran beautifully before the router switch - now will only work when directly connected from MAC to printer.
We have had several people troubleshoot for us -( we live in the country - no IT personnel nearby) - no one can seem to get the connection going between the two devices - I reinstalled the printer - read and reread the troubleshooting manual on both router and printer - and performed all the recommendations listed. The basic setup instructions on the HF printer say that despite the proximity of the printer and the router the signal in only fair and that it appears to have a "security" issue - I turned off the firewall settings on computer - no change in status.
we are contemplating returning the Netgear 750 for another linksys - could someone please tell me how or if we can solve this problem w/o having to return the router?
We purchased this particular router for the MAC compatability - the wireless printer is fairly new <<5yrs old and never had any problems w/it.
IT REALLY APPRECIATE ANY ADVICE I CAN GET!! THANX - maggiemae03815

Welcome to the forums maggiemae03815
I saw your post about the connection issues you are having with your new router, Mac computer and Officejet J4680. I understand you have done some troubleshooting already however, I have a suggestion or two for you to try.
On your Mac, try:
Mac OS X: How to reset the printing system
Repair disk permissions
Restart the Mac
Re-add the printer (do not use the AirPrint driver)
Test print
Next contact the router company or your internet service provider to check the settings on your new router. There may be a setting that is blocking the connection to your printer:
Network name and password need to have no spaces or punctuation
If using WPA2 security, switch to WPA personal
Dual broadcast Wireless b/g/n (printer will only connect to g)
Mac filter needs to be turned off
Firewall settings need to be at there default settings, or set to a lower security
Multicasting "on"
Following ports need to be un-blocked:
Incoming (UDP) ports : 137, 138, 161, 427
Outgoing (TCP) ports : 137, 139, 427, 9100, 9220, 9500
I hope my post was informational!
Have a great Wednesday
R a i n b o w 7000I work on behalf of HP
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Linksys WRVS4400N / Netgear SC101T problem ...

Hi!
I recently upgraded from my old WRT54G to the new WRVS4400N. A few weeks before I upgraded I also bought a new NAS (Netgear SC101T, 1 GBit EN, 2 x 500 GB HDDs, mirrored, redundant, different manufacturers) but I found the fast EN (100 MBit) on the WRT54G to be the bottleneck of this setup as my notebook also supports 1 GBit EN.
So, to finally benefit from the GBit-EN I upgraded to the WRVS4400N (firmware version V1.00.12-ETSI). However, I do not get the SC101T to run with the new router?!? Installing the SC101T under Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP2 (up to date) with the original software as provided by Netgear was no problem. The NAS connected without any problems and I have been using the NAS quite often since for backups.
However, after upgrading to the WRVS4400N the SC101T is no longer accessible. The status LEDs for power, disks and ethernet signal that everything runs fine. Openening the DHCP Client table on the WRVS4400N shows that the NAS is recognised as:
'Client Host Name: MicroSAN Base[0]
IP: 48.48.48.45 or 48.48.48.48
MAC: 30:30:30:30:30:30'
or
'Client Host Name: Root[1]:52315352
IP: 48.48.48.48
MAC: 02:18:4D:74:43:89'
or
'Client Host Name: 11A4F5D6-0AF4-11
IP: 52.49.70.52
MAC: 02:18:4D:73:874'
(plus seconds that indicate how long this IP address will be valid, a mere 60 sec ...)
I have my WRVS4400N acting as a DHCP server, address is 192.168.2.1, identical to the address I used on the WRT54G. I have about 28 IP addresses left to be assigned by the DHCP server.
Clicking on 'L2 Switch' -> 'Port Settings' shows the NAS to be connected at 1000Mbps Full Duplex, Auto negotiation, flow control activated, max frame 1518.
I am using Agnitum Outpost Firewall, v4.0.1007.7323 (591) but it does not matter whether it is active, inactive or fully deactivated.
Any hints? There are a lot of pictures (=all) of our newborn daughter stored on the NAS, so I do want to be able to access the NAS again ...
Thanks!
Cheers Lars
Nachricht wurde am 08-01-2007 12:51 PM von Lars_Behnke bearbeitet.

hi!
Have you tried assigning static IP on your NAS? Is that the only thing that did not work on the router? Is firmware V1.00.12-ETSI came with the router? (out of the box)
I checked the Linksys website and found out that the latest firmware for WRVS4400N was 1.00.15. If putting a fixed IP on your NAS did not work, maybe you can reset the router and reconfigure or try the latest firmware. I hope it helps.

Linksys and NetGear Powerline Adapters

I am wanting to improve my powerline adapters and before I purchase I want to make sure if the Linksys Homeplug AV2 Powerline Kit (PLEK500) and the NetGear Powerline 500Mpbs 4-Port Network Adapter Kit (XAVB5004) can be used on with WRT610n router? The Powerlines will be in two different level locations in my home.

Hi, Cowboybutch. The PLEK500 will work with WRT610N as long as you will connect the adapter to the same circuit breaker. I found an article regarding this adapter that might help you get to know more about this device. Here's the link: http://kb.linksys.com/Linksys/ukp.aspx?pid=80&app=vw&vw=1&login=1&json=1&docid=b6c894be283c45c4a9e7f...

I have a airport base station, will it work with netgear and linksys cards?

So I am at a hous ethat is using a low end netgear router to wirlessly serve about 4 computers. I am the only Mac in the house and suggested they a Airport Base, will their linksys and netgear wireless cards work with the airport Base or should they just upgrade to a high end linksys router?

Hi Chris:
Yes, the AEBS is compatable with any 802.11 B/G cards including Netgear and Linksys cards.
I've used many of the wireless routers that are available (Netgear and Linksys) and recently upgraded to an AEBS. I've found you really get what you pay for. I've had little problems with the AEBS and cross compatiability.
I hope this helps!

More error -8 issues - Linksys BEFSR41 to Airport Express

Hey there, I hope you guys can help b/c I am having a heck of a time with this. I'm having Error-8 issues with my ichat AV 3.1 despite numerous changes. Here's the setup.
Motorola cable modem-->Linksys BEFSR41 wired router-->Airport Express and Vonage VOIP conected to router.
Imac Intel 2 GHZ 20" and MBP CD 2.16GHZ both running Tiger 10.4.10
Router setup: DHCP enabled (Obtain IP automatically, all port forwarding ports opened as per Ralph's numerous posts. Disabled DMZ, Disabled UPnP b/c Airport Express does not support (Even though the router CAN use UPnP). MTU enabled 1492
Comcast Cable: I called them and they do not give out DNS's for setting up static IP addresses.
Router IP: 192.168.1.1
DHCP starting IP: 192.168.1.100
Range: 192.168.1.100 - .149
Subnet 255.255.255.0
Airport Express setup:
Internet tab: Using DHCP
IP address: 192.168.1.102
DNS Server: 68.87.85.98, and (in grey next to it) 68.87.69.146
WPA2 Personal Security
Network tab: "Distribute IP addresses" DISABLED
Port mapping, Access control, and WDS tabs all left blank.
Imac Network Prefs:
Airport connected to internet
IP Adddress: 168.192.1.101 Using DHCP
Mac Firewall OFF
Quicktime Prefs: Set to 1.5 MBPS T1/ Internet LAN
iChat Prefs: AIM port set to 443 b/c of Vonage. Bandwidth set to NONE.
MBP Network prefs:
Airport connected to internet
IP Adddress: 168.192.1.100 Using DHCP
Mac Firewall OFF
Quicktime Prefs: Set to 1.5 MBPS T1/ Internet LAN
iChat Prefs: AIM port set to 443 b/c of Vonage. Bandwidth set to NONE.
Main issues.... error -8 when trying to video or audio chat. Tested with appleu3test03= NO GO with Intel iMac but MBP works! Tried vid chat with brother and NEITHER WORK.
I cannot figure out what is going on but I think it is the router. Problems started when I switched to Linksys from netgear. Could it be that I need to just pony up and get an Airport Extreme so that I can utilize UPnP? Or am I missing something.
Thanks in advance for the help.
Pete
iMac Intel and MBP Mac OS X (10.4.10)

Hi,
I would renumber the devices radiating out from the router (192.168.1.1)
Airport 192.168.1.100
Computer one 192.168.1.101
Computer two 192.168.1.102
It's not a big thing but I prefer it in case the power goes off or things needs rebooting. And it points to the order of things
The Airport doing NO Distributing Addresses should allow UPnP to work. It's just a dumb Wireless Access Point now.
Otherwise if you are doing Port Forwarding it will be to only one Computer and only Text chatting will work on both due to the 443 port being below 1024(NAT)
If the Airport is not allowing UPnP then I would go for Port Triggering if your Linksys does it.
Some BEFS41 versions do. I have linked yo to the lowest version listed on the Port Forward site's Triggering pages.
Don't worry too much about the PC app they say you need.
Fill in the Trigger port at the top and without hitting enter scroll down to see how that effects the table.
Then set it up like this
This pic shows Port 5190 and the AV ports
You will need to add the Bonjour Ports (5297, 5298 and 5353) and Jabber ones (5220, 5222, 5223) as single lines like the port 5190
On My Linksys you did not have to specify Protocols. Nor do you on the link above.
As you have gone Static (router to Airport) you could try allowing the Airport to do Distributing Addresses as the Subnet problem will have been dealt with and the NAT issue will be more linear.
The Vonage device will have conflict on port 5060 (In fact 5060-5063) with iChat if In-Line between the computers and the Modem. Your set up suggests that this is not the case and it should not be an issue.
If by Brother you mean the other computer this will need the Bonjour Ports in both directions (5297, 5298 and 5353) to be able to work.
Strangely this still needs the port 5060 and does contact the SNATMAP server according to my Little Snitch hence the reason for UPnP or Port Triggering for your LAN.
2:09 PM Wednesday; July 11, 2007

Linksys E2000 drops connection

Hey everyone, I have had my Linksys E2000 for a few months now. But up until now, I havent used the wireless settings too much, I have had everything hardwired into the router.
I decided last week to set up the wireless settings so that I can connect my PC and Xbox's wirelessly. They are all within about 10 feet from the router. The connection is fine for a while, but after a few days it begins to degrade. I opened up a command line and pinged 192.168.1.1 to see results of 150+ms on my PC wirelessly. Wired it was about 2ms.
All of my devices have a static IP address on the LAN, and one of my Xbox's is in the DMZ, still dropping connection often. I moved my PC and DMZ Xbox to another room on the second floor of my house and its still about the same speed.
I set my old wireless G router up and its working fine......but I use my PC as a home media server, so 54mbps is very slow for media that needs upwards of 100+mbps. My ISP subscription is about 12mbps, which I get all 12 of those on a hardwired machine, but a wireless on the E2000 is lucky to get 3 of those.
I have everything set up correctly in the router settings, MTU of 1500, with only Wireless N broadcasting. I also noticed that the E2000 will drop connection much faster if the SSID is hidden.My old Wireless G router is getting pings of less then 1ms wirelessly.
I have the Xbox S models and my wireless adapter is a Edimax wireless N adapter. Could this be a defective router? Any options to try to fix the problems?

I'm experiencing similar problems as well. I'm going to try these settings out and see what happens. Reseting my router fixes the problem, but I don't want to have to do this once a week or more. My WRT54GS worked great, but I wanted the speed that N had to offer. Its rather annoying because I hate having to go upstairs every time I need to reset my router in order to get an IP address on my wireless laptop downstairs.
This seems to be an apparent problem among Wireless-N in general. D-Link, Linksys and Netgear all seem to have problems with dropped wireless-N connections on their routers too. Read the reviews on Amazon & Newegg for yourself.

My iphone 4s and ipad 2 both with 7.0.4 update will no longer connect to wifi but non-mac lap top has no issues

my iphone 4s and ipad2 both with 7.0.4 update will no longer connect to wifi.
About three days ago the ability to connect came and went and the connection never lasted more than 10-15 minutes; it has not been able to connect since last night. I do not think it's my wifi router as non-mac lap top has no issues. I have seem many similar questions posted.

Reboot your router by removing all power from it for about 15 seconds. Also, if your router still has its default SSID (such as LINKSYS, DLINK, NETGEAR, etc) change the SSID to something unique. Note that all other devices on your network will have to be reconnected if you change the name, but if the name is still the default that is most likely your problem.
If the SSID is not the default then the reboot should fix it.

How to setup a small office network

Hello,
I am looking to setup a small office network comprising 6 G4 macs (existing computers) that have been upgraded to the newest OS version. What is the best way to go about networking these computers together in terms of being able to share files, internet connection, access to peripherals and also implementing a firewall.
Any suggestions or help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you

1, Get a cable internet ISP account; depending on your service you should be able to secure a 5Mbps down and 2Mbps up on the cable e.g. Cox or Comcast.
2. Get a good router. The mass market Linksys and Netgear routers aren't very good in terms of reliability. I use a ZyXEL P-330W router is the best I've ever seen. Its reliable and very efficient in terms of throughout. The Apple Airport Extreme is good.
3. Set up the router to support UPnP. This way all computers will be able to share iChatAV video conferencing. If you enabled "port forwarding" only one Mac would be able to use iChatAV video conferencing.
4. Set up your router for DHCP to dynamically issue Internet address to all your computers.
5. Setup the wireless router for encryption such as WPA. This will encrypt wireless communication.
6. Setup the wireless router for only your computers. You'll have to get the MAC/AirPort ID network addresses as expressed in terms of an xx:xx:xx:xx address. You can get this thru your Systems Preferences -> Network window -> AirPort (in the sidebar) -> Advanced button.
7. If you have Ethernet in your office then skip steps 5 and 6 above.
8. On each computer open up the System Preferences -> Sharing and check-off the File Sharing. Set your user access preferences appropriately.
9. Get a Network enabled All-in-one printer and setup Printer Sharing options. Hook-it up to your network and add your printer by clicking on the "+" sign in your "Print and Fax" Preferences.
10. Don't enable Apple Firewall on each Mac. The router will be the Firewall.
Ok. That's the short-hand.. plug it all in and go!

How to connect a APExpress to a digital audio console

I have a Yamaha M7CL digital audio console that has an Ethernet connection. I want to control the desk wirelessly using the APExpress. I know how to do it with a Linksys or Netgear router. With those I need to plucg into one of the 4 LAN ports. Not the WAN. And it works great. Since the APEx has only one port (LAN or WAN?) How can I make it work. The console has Network settings that can be changed but I think my issue is that the port on the APE is looking for internet. I'm not interested in using this set up to surf the web I only trying to connect the 2 and wirelessly connect with my laptop. With all the different settings I have no idea where to begin. Can anyone give me a clue. Thanks.

Hello steviee7. Welcome to the Apple Discussions!
In order for the AirPort Express Base Station's (AX) Ethernet port to perform as a "LAN" port so that the Yamaha can access the network/Internet, it would need to be reconfigured as one of the following:
For both the 802.11b/g and 802.11n versions of the AX:
o As as relay or remote base station in a Wireless Distribution System (WDS).
For the 802.11n version only:
o As an extender of a wireless network created by another 802.11n AirPort or Time Capsule.
o As a wireless Ethernet bridge (ProxySTA).

Using a 3rd party router for Multicast

Hi all,
There’s a lot of feedback on this board about using third party routers with Multicast, so we’ve decided to put this information all in the one place for you.
NOTE: the workarounds below haven’t been tested by BT as we do not support 3rd party routers and we do not endorse any of them. Our recommended router remains the Home Hub.
With the above statement in mind, we know that a lot of you do choose to use other routers. The information contained here has come from fellow customers who have given their time to share this information in good faith. Thanks to all of the forum members who have helped make this information available to our community it is a great example of the wealth of information that a community can provide and we hope this encourages users to come back and visit us in the future.
A special mention goes to walkerx who has posted and prompted a lot of the provided information.
Hub configurations in alphabetical order:
Apple Airport Extreme
Put your Airport Extreme into Bridge Mode and turn the Home Hub's wireless off.
[From MartinH's post]
ASUS RT-N66U
You must configure 'Enable VPN + DHCP Connection' to 'No' under the WAN option.
Settings used were:
- Have router on the latest firmware: 3.0.0.4.374.130
- Use the following settings in LAN > IPTV:
- 'Select ISP Profile' = None
- 'Choose IPTV STB Port' = None
- 'Use DHCP routes' = Microsoft
- 'Enable multicast routing (IGMP Proxy) = Enable
- 'Enable efficient multicast forwarding (IGMP Snooping) = Enable
- 'UDB Proxy (Udpxy) = 0
[From sepph's post]
Billion 7800DXL
Router has been reported to work.
[From walkerx's post]
Billion 7800N
Requires you to add another profile (Pure Bridge) to the EWAN port along with the PPPoE profile. Save settings & restart. Also enable IGMP proxy & snooping.
[TimCurtis' post]
DLink Dir 825
If enable multicast you can see the on-demand players but get an IPC6023 error when viewing the test channel (this means poor internet channel quality). This error message comes up even though it works if use the Home Hub 4
[walkerx's post]
Netgear R6300
Netgear R6300, but with the Home Hub 3.0 and 500Mbit Powerline adapters in the picture.
Modem -> HH3 -> R6300 -> Powerline -> 2 x Youview Boxes on other Powerlines.
To do this, configure the Home Hub 3.0 as 192.168.1.1, then disable its wireless and DHCP. Make sure that NAT and UPNP were enabled, and then set it to use the address 192.168.1.254 as a DMZ server.
Then configure the R6300 as the address 192.168.0.1, using the WAN IP address of 192.168.1.254, with 192.168.1.1 as the gateway and DNS server. The R6300 is then connected via WAN port to the HH3 Gigabit port.
In the R6300 settings switch on IGMP.
The above settings allow both YouView boxes to use on demand content and different streaming channels simultaneously, as well as giving the full features of the R6300 such as AC1750 wireless, network printing, and DLNA
[wigglr's post]
TP-Link AC1750
Router has been reported to work.
[zarf2007's post]
TP-Link Archer C7
Router has been reported to work.
[HappySlayerUK's post]
TP-Link TL-WR1043ND
No configuration needed, plug and play.
[walkerx's post]
TP-Link WDR4300 N750
Router has been reported to work.
[aseymour's post]
TP-Link TL-WDR4900 N900
Router has been reported to work, plug and play.
[cactusbob's post]
TP-Link routers in general
How to configure Multicast on TP-Link routers (from the TP-Link website).
One of our posters also found the following:
He found that your router must be able to do the following for Multicast:
For an end user connected via Openreach GEA (FTTC and FTTH)
• The Residential Gateway will support:
– IPoE for multicast traffic and PPPoE for BB traffic;
– VLAN tag ID of 0 or no VLAN tag ID for multicast and BB traffic;
– Fork IGMP requests up multicast and BB paths.
For an end user connected to an MSAN (WBC copper)
• The Residential Gateway will support:
– A dual VC architecture;
– Accept TV Connect multicast traffic on ATM VP/VC 0/35 with IPoE and broadband traffic on ATM VP/VC 0/38 with PPPoE;
– Fork IGMP requests up multicast and broadband paths.
IGMP should v3 and will be in range from 225.0.0.0 to 239.255.255.255
[walkerx's post]
List of routers that do not appear to work:
Draytek 2750n
Linksys EA4500
linksys EA6300
Netgear AC6300
[From Red_Snow's post]
If you use a router that’s not listed here, do a search on the YouView from BT board to see if advice has been posted elsewhere. If it hasn’t, do post your question.
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New router, printer does not work

A new wireless internet router and modem was installed yesterday. My printer does not respond from my MacBook Pro or my iPad. I followed all troubleshooting advice on HP and Apple websites. No luck. Apple support today suggested that my printer may need additional informatin which I cannot change. The Network ConfigurationCheck was perfect except for address changes and one other which may be significant. URLs for embedded web servers changed from http:/HP618550 to http://dhcppc2.
The Wireless Network Test Results were perfect. My computers acess the internet also without problems. Apple had me put a USB cable between the MacBook and the printer. Then the printer worked just fine. He thought (not being a printer guru) that perhaps the communication between the router and printer was the problem. Hence I come to this site. I have followed all HP site troubleshooting advice and met each criteria. HELP?

After reading this through again, I am wondering if the router is unable to support Bonjour properly. Bonjour is the discovery service through which your Mac finds your printer on your network.
Although not for your identical router, this article may be helpful: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c02986958&cc=us&dlc=en&lc=en#N135
If we can't get this resolved a for-sure, kill-it-dead solution is to get a normal, standard router (Linksys or Netgear) and put it in line with your ZyXel, disabling its wireless. I can help if you want to go this way. A good standard router would be $40 and you would be done.
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I'd like to know if mac os 9.2 can support wpa/wpa2

hi,
i've been given a macbook pro to repair (2001) and i want to connect to a wpa/wpa2 network. is that possible ?
if not i'll advise to change router's security level but it won't be secure...

In a way, it is possible, but the portability may become limited. You could connect a wireless Ethernet bridge (also known as a gaming or media adapter) to the Ethernet port of the computer. There are wireless Ethernet bridge devices from several manufacturers (such as ASUS, Linksys and Netgear). Look for a model that is small (possibly with power supply from batteries or perhaps USB). A wireless Ethernet bridge does not (normally) require special software, and can thus be used under almost any operating system.
Jan

AIM and ichat, video not working

I have 2 aol email accounts and aim with those. I am a little confused on some things. First I have the free aol email and instant messenger. Nothing is downloaded onto my computer, I just signed up for an email account and set it up in mail and ichat. I keep seeing things about versions of aol, well I don't have a version downloaded.
Can this be the reason that I can not hear people when they conference to me? They hear and see me, and I see them, just no sound from them.
A friend of mine has same computer I have, bought his 2 days before I bought mine and he said he's had no problem using his ichat. then last night he started having problems and he said the only thing he did was run permssions repair. Which I had also done. So either the permission repair caused something to change that we can no longer use it or there is something else going on.
I have a linksys router, I have plug and play enabled, I have also tried enabling ports, there is no firewall. The friend has same setup and he NEVER went in and changed settings on his router, it just instantly worked. We also have the same ISP. No ports are being blocked by them. I have also enabled all ports to see if that would help.
the other person I can not connect to is another story. I need to get mine up and running before I work on hers. She has a wireless pc, and dsl..I am going to check her setting, aol version, and such once mine is proven to work with someone.
I also can not use big board games...I get a message that says I am behind a firewall (which I am not), I had also tried same thing with the ports, or it says that I have a translated network address. I am guessing that these problems are linked.
Another person that is a pc tech suggested I setup static ip for my computer and all that mess, and we tried it and still no fix.
Someone here suggested changing a setting in quicktime for streamline to be less than 1.5 it was set to 384 (or something) so I left it there.
Yes, all microphones where turned on..it is built in isight.

Well, this problem is solved, it took several different posts to get answers that worked.
But here is what got me up and running.
First, reason I can not connect to pc friend is because she is using the newest version on aim and she needs to be using 5.9 (tried finding who here told me that to give credit, but I can't find the info)
I don't know why I can't connect to my mac friend. I may be able to now that I fixed somethings, but he's not been online for me to test it out. However, he was able to chat with other people and then he changed some things and now he's not. So, when he is online again I will go over his setup as well.
Ichat would have worked with no special configurations for me, right out of the box. However, big bang board games will not let me get online and trying to get that online is where I changed things that prevented ichat from ever working.
If you are having this problem with linksys or netgear router..just turn on plugnplay in router configurations. It is usually on be default. No need to have ports enabled.
For you mac firewall, just have it turned on, no special ports being opened.
I do have bonjour chat checked in settings, but I am told that this does not need to be checked. Do not have apple remote sharing checked.
I do have 10.4.8 installed, so I did not need to go back to an older version.
This just boiled down to I turned my firewall off and never thought that would cause me not to be able to chat.

Airport Express works, but MacBook doesn't when connected directly to Modem

I have an interesting problem. I have Verizon DSL. Airport Express works, but Linksys and Netgear wifi routers don't work. Further more, if I disconnect the wifi router and directly connect a MacBook or a Windows notebook they don't work. These devices work if I enter a static IP address though. It is DHCP that doesn't work.
I have been using Verizon DSL for several years, and most recently I was using a Netgear wifi router. A few days ago it lost internet connection. Thinking that the Netgear broke, I bought a new Linksys WRT54GL to replace it. But it didn't work either. I happened to have an Airport Express lying around, so I connected that and surprisingly it worked! Then I wrote down the IP address shown by Airport Utility and typed that IP into Netgear as a static IP address and it worked too. If I remove all wifi equipment and connect a Windows PC or a MacBook directly to the DSL modem then neither works. (Note: my DSL modem doesn't use PPPoE it uses DHCP.)
So it seems that something changed with Verizon's DHCP such that only Airport Express can work. Contacting Verizon support was useless. What is so magical about Airport Express? I can't use Airport Express permanently because I have 3 wired computers to connect also, and Airport Express have ethernet ports. Airport Extreme does, so I am wondering if I should get one of those. Will the magic of Airport Express work in Extreme also?
Does anyone know what is going on? How is Airport Express work with Verizon DHCP when nothing else can?

Hello petilon. Welcome to the Apple Discussions!
Does anyone know what is going on? How is Airport Express work with Verizon DHCP when nothing else can?
It sounds like Verizon is keying on the MAC address of the device connected to its modem ... so either they require that you register a MAC address with them or there is a problem with the modem in that it is retaining it even though you change the device connected.
If you haven't already, be sure to perform a complete power recycle when changing out network equipment. The following should be done each time:
o Power-down, the modem, router, and computer(s); wait at least 10-15 minutes. Order is not critical. If the modem has a backup battery, it should be removed and replaced to make sure that any stored configuration information is erased.
o Power-up the modem; wait at least 10-15 minutes.
o Power-up the router; wait at least 5-10 minutes.
o Power-up the computer(s).

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