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Can a Motorola Surfboard 5120 USB Cable Modem be set-up for use with more than one IP? Can someone help me find the USB driver?

I am working on a friends computer and I'm using an ethernet switch to connect the modem mentioned above to a computer and an airport extreme. If one works, the other one doesn't. I don't have the disk that came with the modem so a link to any software i can use would be useful. Thanks.

EDIT: I basically need to know if the modem supports use with multiple computers without the use of another device being set up as a network. I have a dell computer and an Airport Extreme hooked up, so are any of the two able to do that job of setting up a network if one is needed?
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jacob peac... jacob peac...
 
 March 16, 2009 02:26 AM
You will need a router, a switch, or a hub to share the connection with more than one computer.
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kenman345 kenman345
 
March 16, 2009 03:13 AM
As stated in my post, I have a switch. I think the settings for the modem are locked, so i need to know where I can get software to change those settings, or how to hard reset the device so it will just work with whatever i do with it.

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jacob peac... jacob peac...
 
March 16, 2009 05:10 PM
Here is the user guide. You will most likely need to open a web browser and login into the router through its ip address. http://broadband.motorola.com/consumers/products/SB5120/downloads/SB5120_User_Guide.pdf

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kenman345 kenman345
 
March 16, 2009 05:33 PM
I was actually thinking about doing that. I will go over to my friends house tomorrow, but in the manual it doesn't say the ip address of the device. Where would I be able to find that? Anyone know what are the possible ip addresses and which one should work.

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jacob peac... jacob peac...
 
March 16, 2009 10:26 PM
When you connect to the modem with an Ethernet cable. Look at what the 'default route' is. Should be 192.168.2.1 or something like that. That is the IP that you want to use to login to the modem.

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