My father has a company laptop that came configured to access his
company's LAN from within the office. His laptop is also configured to
dial a 1-800 number for when he is away. However, He allready has a
cable internet access account for home use with his personal PC. He
want's to be able to use his cable internet connection to access his
company servers from home with his company laptop for convienece and to
save his company money.

I believe that the reason this is not working is because his laptop's
Default Gateway Address is pre-set to the IP address of the gateway
device at his office (I belive it to be a router). I think that if he
were to change his laptop's Gateway address to that of the gateway
device in his home (another router), that then he should be able to
access a broadband intnernet connection from his laptop.

His comapny did not have any objections to this and said that their
servers should be accessable from an outside source (i.e. internet).
However, they do not have an in house Tech department and none of the
poeple there are computer saavy.

Unfortunatly, I have had only limited "real-world" experience with
cable modems and broad band in general since I personally use dial up.
I think I may be missing a step. Maybe software for the cable modem? I
don't know.


Will his Gateway address match the router's IP, or the cable modem's?

If anyone has any ideas, please let me know.
Thanx
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»Tony
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Well Fisrt off what Windows Versio is he running, and has he been using the
Cable Modem on another computer from his home location?

Because he needs to have the Cable modem, registered with the Cable
company, through their web address, (Best solution is to call the cable
company to get this part done)

there are several ways to change the Default gateway, but I need to know the
OS first.

"Tony" <rtpb123********.com> wrote in message
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My father has a company laptop that came configured to access his
company's LAN from within the office. His laptop is also configured to
dial a 1-800 number for when he is away. However, He allready has a
cable internet access account for home use with his personal PC. He
want's to be able to use his cable internet connection to access his
company servers from home with his company laptop for convienece and to
save his company money.

I believe that the reason this is not working is because his laptop's
Default Gateway Address is pre-set to the IP address of the gateway
device at his office (I belive it to be a router). I think that if he
were to change his laptop's Gateway address to that of the gateway
device in his home (another router), that then he should be able to
access a broadband intnernet connection from his laptop.

His comapny did not have any objections to this and said that their
servers should be accessable from an outside source (i.e. internet).
However, they do not have an in house Tech department and none of the
poeple there are computer saavy.

Unfortunatly, I have had only limited "real-world" experience with
cable modems and broad band in general since I personally use dial up.
I think I may be missing a step. Maybe software for the cable modem? I
don't know.


Will his Gateway address match the router's IP, or the cable modem's?

If anyone has any ideas, please let me know.
Thanx
------------------------------------------------------------------
DO NOT REPLY TO RTPB123********.COM. IT IS NOT MY REAL EMAIL. IT IS
BEST TO REPLY TO THE GROUP ANYWAY.
[adult swim]

Thanx,
»Tony
CNA, NET+, A+, IC3,
1337 |-|4><ÔR

Well Fisrt off what Windows Versio is he running, and has he been using the
Cable Modem on another computer from his home location?

Because he needs to have the Cable modem, registered with the Cable
company, through their web address, (Best solution is to call the cable
company to get this part done)

there are several ways to change the Default gateway, but I need to know the
OS first.

"Tony" <rtpb123********.com> wrote in message
news:1102532441.386876.318910@z14g2000cwz.googlegr oups.com...
My father has a company laptop that came configured to access his
company's LAN from within the office. His laptop is also configured to
dial a 1-800 number for when he is away. However, He allready has a
cable internet access account for home use with his personal PC. He
want's to be able to use his cable internet connection to access his
company servers from home with his company laptop for convienece and to
save his company money.

I believe that the reason this is not working is because his laptop's
Default Gateway Address is pre-set to the IP address of the gateway
device at his office (I belive it to be a router). I think that if he
were to change his laptop's Gateway address to that of the gateway
device in his home (another router), that then he should be able to
access a broadband intnernet connection from his laptop.

His comapny did not have any objections to this and said that their
servers should be accessable from an outside source (i.e. internet).
However, they do not have an in house Tech department and none of the
poeple there are computer saavy.

Unfortunatly, I have had only limited "real-world" experience with
cable modems and broad band in general since I personally use dial up.
I think I may be missing a step. Maybe software for the cable modem? I
don't know.


Will his Gateway address match the router's IP, or the cable modem's?

If anyone has any ideas, please let me know.
Thanx
------------------------------------------------------------------
DO NOT REPLY TO RTPB123********.COM. IT IS NOT MY REAL EMAIL. IT IS
BEST TO REPLY TO THE GROUP ANYWAY.
[adult swim]

Thanx,
»Tony
CNA, NET+, A+, IC3,
1337 |-|4><ÔR