Connecting to Internet via Network Cable: No Router, Desktop Setup Guide, Tips & Troubleshooting

Hello. My router broke down and suddenly stopped responding to power. Someone from my internet service won't be bringing a new router until next week, so by then I'd like to connect my desktop via my main internet cable. I plugged in the cable thinking that the Internet will be but unfortunately ... I am completely green in it and some need to be set ... deal.

Thanks in advance!

Hello

What is this internet provider (company and type of option purchased). What router broke down (model, company)? What cable comes to you (to the router) and which from the router to the computer?

greetings

Thanks for such a quick reply.
The provider is multimedia 120 Mb / s
The router is planet wrt 414
When it comes to cables, I don't know what you are asking too much.
The main white staircase entered the router and the blue one connected the router to the computer. Both had the same endings ... I hope that's what you meant ?if not, I'll take pictures of them and throw in a link

That was it, without the operator's equipment it is impossible to pick up the internet signal directly on the computer. The router acts as a modem and connects to the provider using the login and password, and only then is the Internet.
Unfortunately, without a new one, nothing will happen.

There is no modem there sometimes in front of the router?

I have some old modem working EDIMAX 5 port fast ethernet switch, would it still be? It looks like this

This is a switch, not a router. Connect the modem cable to the computer, you probably need to clone the MAC address.

Connect to a broken router? Where to read this Mac address?

First, say what the router was connected to. Do you have any modem etc?

The router was connected to the network cable and from it came the cable to the computer .. there was no other device
It was like this


The blue cable led to the computer and the white one was the main internet one

And this cable comes out of the wall? If you do not remember how WAN was configured in the router, we will not do anything, but I bet that it is enough to clone the WAN MAC address of the router (which can be difficult if it does not work).

Multimedia mainly runs on HFC modems, but they have bought several LANs in several cities. Their configuration is different, for example, in a network in Gdynia, purchased from one company, an address is dynamically assigned and there is no need to register MAC. In the past, however, it had to be done. On the other hand, in a network in another district, they have static configuration (you need to manually configure IP data). At least that's how it was until recently, maybe it has already changed as well. The problem is that this configuration cannot be predicted.

On the bottom of the WRT414 router, there is a MAC address on the sticker (it's just hard for me to determine whether it is a WAN, LAN or WiFi MAC). You can set this address as the physical address of your network card and see if it works. If it doesn't work, check the next address (increase the last digit by one), if it doesn't work, then another one. If these don't work, check the back two of the sticker. Remember that MAC addresses are hexadecimal numbers, so after 9 we do not count from zero, we only have numbers from A to F.

If you target the WAN address and it is registered, the internet can start. If it does not start, it is worth calling the MM Service Office and finding out what address is registered on our service, or generally ask how you can connect a device other than the one used so far. The first level of support is often convinced that Multimedia provides services only through HFC modems and will tell you to count the lights on the modem, but if you can convince them that you have a LAN network instead of a modem, the second level support should help quite effectively.

the router looks to the IEEE 802.3 standard, therefore it seems to me that it is enough:
https://www.tp-link.com/pl/products/details/cat-9_TL-WR841N.html Link e the price of about PLN 60 or any other router. Then you need to call the operator to give the configuration data and that's it.
Alternatively, check the contract for the provided access data.

I had the access data on my contract - after changing the router, I entered what I needed, I called them to add the new MAC address of the new router to their database and that's it.

Thanks to all of you for the answers and sorry for the lack of response, but I was away all weekend. I bought a RT-N11P router today. I just finished configuring it, but the Internet did not click .. I entered all the addresses from my provider and still don't know what to do. On the router configuration page, in the LAN tab, there is a different IP address than the one on the sheet and the one in the WAN tab. In turn, in the WAN tab, under the Special ISP requirements box in the MAC address field, there is a different address than on the back of the router (it appeared to me after pressing MAC cloning)
Anyone have any idea what is wrong?

If you type correctly, it must work. Call support, they have to come up with something.

Koxus moim bogiem wrote:

Thanks to all of you for the answers and sorry for the lack of response, but I was away all weekend. I bought a RT-N11P router today. I just finished configuring it, but the Internet did not click .. I entered all the addresses from my provider and still don't know what to do. On the router configuration page, in the LAN tab, there is a different IP address than the one on the sheet and the one in the WAN tab. In turn, in the WAN tab, under the Special ISP requirements box in the MAC address field, there is a different address than on the back of the router (it appeared to me after pressing MAC cloning)
Anyone have any idea what is wrong?

1. Make him a RESET because it is not known what you changed
2. You only configure the WAN tab / card - you do not need to LAN (and preferably do not change anything there).
3. You previously had a router that had its own MAC and this was the address the operator saw, now in the new router by pressing "cloning" to the new router, the MAC of your computer (network card) has been entered - and the operator did not see it
4. So: after the reboot, enter exactly everything on your page again, and the MAC address should be as it is on the old router (it should be somewhere on the sticker - usually on the bottom)