Problems with sending email from behind a router

placeboplacebo
Posted:
in General Discussion edited January 2014
My father uses Entourage with a POP or IMAP Earthlink.net address, and since we moved to broadband, he has not been able to send mail. We have a router, and he's connected via a crossover cable to it.



The router is a Netgear G router.





Is there an inherent problem with sending email behind a router?

Comments

  • Reply 1 of 2
    placeboplacebo Posts: 5,767member
    Never mind, Earthlink has some kind of special outgoing server address for networked users.





    Thanks anyways.
  • Reply 2 of 2
    splinemodelsplinemodel Posts: 7,311member
    You should probably connect via a straight through cable. Most new computers have autosensing/autoswitching ethernet ports, so it doesn't really matter, but if you're OC you'll want to swap it out.
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