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Originally Posted by stomachmonkey
Out of habit I give my cable modem a head start.
What is happening is the cable modem may need to acquire it's address before it starts distributing addresses to the LAN side.
You don't want the router to time out waiting for its address from the modem.
And will not hurt to reboot your PC after the router is on line.
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Or the cable modem will need to sense what's on the LAN side before linking up with the outside world.