Problem Solved: One Computer Will Talk to the Router But Other Two Computers Won't Talk to the Router

In my One Computer Will Talk to the Router But Other Two Computers Won't Talk to the Router article two weeks ago, I wrote about a strange problem that reader James Biddle was having.

Last week's article Followup — One Computer Will Talk to the Router But Other Two Computers Won't Talk to the Router had several suggestions from other readers to help James solve the problmem.

This week, James wrote to say that he solved it.

Last week I told you about two computers won't work on my router or hub. I used a friend of mines netgear router and bingo. All works. I gave him my dlink and hub--they work just fine.
Go figure?

I've been into computers since the VIC 20 of the late 70's and this was the first problem I couldn't get resolved.

In other words, something about the particular models of router and hub that James was using — or perhaps the settings he had changed in the router — was causing the problem.

Although I didn't think about it at the time (and it wasn't the problem since the Dlink router and hub worked for his friend), he might have turned on MAC Address Filtering in the router.

Of course, if his friend had used the router's reset button to return to factory configuration, that would have fixed the issue.

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