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Try this:

Turn off your PC(s).
Turn off, and unplug the satellite receiver.
Reboot the router (probably by power cycling).
Plug the satellite back in, and see if it gets an Internet connection.
Then you can turn your PC back on.

The 169.254 is the range that Windows XP and later uses (and sometimes mistakenly hands out to the network) when it can't find a DHCP server. Take the PC out of the picture to make sure the router can do its job.