I recently took an older computer home from work but I am having no luck getting it to connect to the internet. It is an SGI 320, running Windows 2000. I have a cable modem (which works fine with my Mac G3 laptop) and I have internet access via Cox cable.
I have made sure that the Network Identification is no longer set up to have the computer as part of a network domain (it was at work), and I have revised the Network and Dial-Up Settings per Cox's recommendations (TCP/IP set to dynamic addressing and 'Client for Microsft Networks' installed). Still no luck.
When I run ipconfig from the cmd window, I get: Connection Secific DNS Suffix: (blank) Autoconfig IP address: 169.254.192.78 Subnet Mask: 255.255.0.0 Defauly Gateway: (blank)
I understand that the IP address 169.254.192.78 is a Windows default, and it means that I am not actually communicating with Cox. I have tried ipconfig/release and ipconfig/renew to no avail.
Any suggestions? Thanks, in advance. Doug