[S.D.Willie]

Welcome to techimo. this is a common thing that you have a bogus ip address. shut down the p.c., then leave the cable modem unplugged for about a minute or 2.

power on the modem, wait for all lights, THEN power on the pc. see if you get a valid address. you might have to do this in addition with " ipconfig /release then ipconfig /renew" a few times but it should work.

SD

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Try setting static ip's on each machine

if hes not using a router and he needs internet, i believe setting it to static will not give him web access anymore. someone correct me if im wrong.