Switched cable and dsl modems to different rooms problems help!

[messiah34]

I traded my cable modem for my brothers dsl now both do not work in the different rooms different computers but when I switch them back they work, what could be the problem?.

[mnosteele52]

Did you renew and release your IP on both pc's?

:)

[messiah34]

I forgot about that, how is it done on winxp?

[mnosteele52]

Start run and type ipconfig /release then ipconfig /renew. Sometimes your IP sticks and you have to do this, even sometimes it requires a reboot.

:)

[dsl-jds]

Did I miss something here? He swapped cable and dsl modems, so how can that even expect to work? Cable modem on dsl line and visa versa?

[OD-}{unter]

he said that he had to renew his IP adrress

[dsl-jds]

Renewing the IP addresses was a suggestion to solve the problem and the directions on how to do that were given! I haven't seen a response on whether it did work. I'm still not sure that a cable modem will work with dsl and visa versa.