<div dir="ltr">That is the router I have. On the back there are 4 LAN ports and another port labled Internet. My setup had the cable from the modem feeding into that port and everything worked until a couple of days ago. Today I switched that cable to a LAN port and everything worked again. I asked in another thread the purpose of the internet port and MR Butash gave me an answer but it is still a lot hazy. In my research to answer the question myself I found a wikipedia article that states:<div><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.3999996185303px"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.3999996185303px">The original </span><b style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.3999996185303px">WRT54G</b><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.3999996185303px"> was first released in December 2002. It has a 4+1 port </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_switch" title="Network switch" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.3999996185303px;background-image:none;background-repeat:initial">network switch</a><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.3999996185303px"> (the Internet/WAN port is part of the same internal network switch, but on a different </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VLAN" title="VLAN" class="" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.3999996185303px;background-image:none;background-repeat:initial">VLAN</a><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.3999996185303px">).</span><br clear="all"><div><br></div><div>My questions: What is that port for if not to be an input port for the internet</div><div>and</div><div>Why was it working as an input port for the internet and why did it stop working as such?</div><div>:-)~MIKE~(-:</div>
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