I can't ping anything, I've tried that too. Also, I am running software firewalls on all my machines. It's significantly better than no connection at all, which is my luck with routers. And I didn't corrupt the data due to lack of protection, it was because of a firmware installation gone wrong.

If it helps, this is what I get with ifconfig.

eth1
Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:08:0D:52:E7:36
inet addr:24.244.xx.xxx Bcast: 24.244.xx.xxx Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 METRIC:1
RX packets:144 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:160 errors: dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:33137 (32.3 KiB) TX bytes:9512 (9.2 KiB)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0xcf40 Memory:fcef7000-fcef7038

lo
Link encap: Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:138 errors:0 dropped:0 overrun:0 frame:0
TX packets:138 errors:0 dropped:0 overrun:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:12459 (12.1KiB) TX bytes:12456 (12.1 KiB)