TDS Routing problem

Check out http://192.168.0.1 (or whatever the URL of your router (dsl modem) admin page is)
from the 'status' page, check out 'routing table'
anyone on our subnet is going to be 69.129.(number from 192-255).(something)
so that's me, you, and atticus, apparently
so any packet sent to any of our addresses will be sent to the gateway specified on the second line, with destinaion=69.129.192.0, and gateway=0.0.0.0
the problem is gateway=0.0.0.0
that means 'don't route it'
hence, if you try to send packets to someone on the same subnet, your router ignores them and they don't get through

ok, so how you fix this......
click the 'setup' tab
then click 'advanced setup'
then click the 'begin advanced setup' button
then click 'static routing'
ok, this is another funny thing...
this page might already show a custom route that has been set up that will override that 69.129.192.0 -> 0.0.0.0 entry with 69.129.192.0 -> 69.129.192.1
(69.129.192.1 is a router at the telephone building)
(that's where we want our packets to go, rather than being ignored)
but for some reason the rule is being ignored
so what I do is
- remove tha rule
- restart the router
- add the rule again: subnet IP = 69.129.192.0, subnet mask = 255.255.240.0, gateway IP = 69.129.192.1
- restart the router again
Of course, if your custom static routes box is empty, you can skip the 'remove and restart' steps. You will probably have to do them next time though.
that should to it -__o