Linksys And Aol Broadband

Aiadi · 17 February 2006 at 10:36PM

Hi everybody. Can anyone help with the settings of a Linksys wireless router to get it to work with AOL broadband please? Thanks to all in advance.

albertross_2 · 17 February 2006 at 10:50PM

You may have to tweak your mtu: to 1400

http://www.speedguide.net/downloads.php

have you got it talking to your pc?

Aiadi · 17 February 2006 at 11:02PM

albertross wrote:

You may have to tweak your mtu: to 1400

http://www.speedguide.net/downloads.php

have you got it talking to your pc?

Thanks for the rapid reply. How do I know if it is talking to the PC?

albertross_2 · 17 February 2006 at 11:08PM

have you set it up at all, or just got it out of the box.

usually by pinging the ip address of the router.

ping xx.xx.xx.xx

Aiadi · 17 February 2006 at 11:33PM

All set up. MTU changed to "manual 1400" but AOL reaches step 5 of connection and either shuts down or retry to establish connection again and again unsuccessfully.

albertross_2 · 17 February 2006 at 11:39PM

did you reboot after changing the mtu? what is step 5, is that AOL software?

http://www.aol.co.uk/help/broadband/dns_server.html

http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/forums/index.cfm?action=showthread&threadid=224952&forumid=18

http://www.broadbandbuyer.co.uk/BuyersGuide/FAQDetail.asp?TextID=497&SetID=98

Aiadi · 17 February 2006 at 11:59PM

Very useful. not working yet but I'll try the settings suggested on PC ADVISOR. and yes I meant step five on AOL software when it tries to connect. Thank you again.

zzzLazyDaisy · 18 February 2006 at 12:22AM

Try switching off both the router and the pc. Then reboot the router, wait for the lights to settle, and the reboot the pc. You may find that you have to do this periodically anyway.

Aiadi · 18 February 2006 at 1:25AM

Wooooooooooooooof, got it finally to work and it is really bizarre to be able to connect directly to AOL when I open FireFox without the need to start AOL itself. I have even uninstalled AOL (the most intrusive piece of software ever) and my FireFox is stil always connected. Really fantastic. Two more questions please. Firstly, I can't seem to get it to work with internet explorer for some mysterious reason (can't get to the utility page when type "http://192.168.1.1" URL in). Secondly does anyone no how I can connect my laptop wirelessly without it having a PCMCIA slot so can't use the laptop card that came with the router.

albertross_2 · 18 February 2006 at 2:50AM

Check ie/tools/internet options/connections/lan settings

Are you saying you have a laptop with no in-built wireless, and no pcmcia slot. If so, do you have a usb slot? If yes, you can get a wireless usb adapter instead..

http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?action=c2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=94368

etc..

if you are not using wireless currently, disable it on the router, otherwise your neighbours might connect to your network.

when you do go wireless, enable wpa encryption, and disable ssid broadcasting for the same reasons.

Aiadi · 18 February 2006 at 3:39AM

albertross wrote:

Check ie/tools/internet options/connections/lan settings

Are you saying you have a laptop with no in-built wireless, and no pcmcia slot. If so, do you have a usb slot? If yes, you can get a wireless usb adapter instead..

http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?action=c2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=94368

etc..

if you are not using wireless currently, disable it on the router, otherwise your neighbours might connect to your network.

when you do go wireless, enable wpa encryption, and disable ssid broadcasting for the same reasons.

Exactly what I am looking for. Thanks a lot. I have no idea on how to set up or disable the wireless option on this router. A whole other can of worms I guess.

Linksys And Aol Broadband

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