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Originally Posted by whydoIneedatech
To receive an IP address you must have your modem switched on and connected to the PC either directly through an Ethernet cable or through a router.
You cannot access the Internet unless you have the IP address 92.*.*.* or any other Virginmedia IPs otherwise all you will have is an internal network without any Internet access.
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Not really. You could have a router sitting there with no other devices connected to it and VM would still issue you an IP*.
It's ok to have an internal IP on the PC/other devices connected (wired or wireless)....so long as a) your router has a VM IP b) has a default gateway and c) has a routing entry telling it "anything not on the local subnet should be routed out the WAN interface to the default gateway.". A and B are taken care of by VM and C is taken care of by the router.
+1 for the DGL-4300
all we need now is updated firmware with SNMP support!
* so long as the modem's MAC is registered to an account with a valid service subscription, and there's no other problems on the network.