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Connecting Asus to internet confusion

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  • simgranny
    simgranny Posts: 148 Forumite
    Mukaki wrote: »
    I'm with Tiscali and I have an ADSL modem which is connected buy wires to the phone socket but I want to be able to move about with my laptop.

    If you are with Tiscali they will send you a free wireless router, but dealing with them is such a nightmare so you might prefer to just go out and buy one!
  • weegie.geek
    weegie.geek Posts: 3,432 Forumite
    Mukaki wrote: »
    Good grief, I didn't realise it was as simple as all that!
    So I don't even have to change/install anything on my computer then - cool.
    Cheers espresso! :beer:

    You'll have to change a couple of settings on your laptop (and probably the router, to stop the neighbours stealing internet from you) but it's pretty simple. I'm not sure Tiscali will officially support Linux, so don't expect their phone support to be much use. Having said that, the same's true for windows, and they DO support it. :rotfl:
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  • Mukaki
    Mukaki Posts: 64 Forumite
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    What about this 'dongle' thing - i've just been looking at some routers and some of them include one. Is it really needed?
  • espresso
    espresso Posts: 16,446 Forumite
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    Mukaki wrote: »
    What about this 'dongle' thing - i've just been looking at some routers and some of them include one. Is it really needed?

    You don't need a 'dongle' as your Eee PC has WiFi built in. When you replace your router with a wireless router, you will be able to connect to the router using a wireless connection as well as wired. Just set-up WPA wireless encryption as mentioned.
    :doh: Blue text on this forum usually signifies hyperlinks, so click on them!..:wall:
  • Mukaki
    Mukaki Posts: 64 Forumite
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    espresso wrote: »
    You don't need a 'dongle' as your Eee PC has WiFi built in. When you replace your router with a wireless router, you will be able to connect to the router using a wireless connection as well as wired. Just set-up WPA wireless encryption as mentioned.

    Ok, all is clearly understood now................I think :D

    Big thanks to all of you!
  • Fifer
    Fifer Posts: 59,413 Forumite
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    If you've heard people talk of using a dongle to connect an Eee PC to a broadband service, it's probably been a cellular (mobile) dongle which you don't need in your house (but is what I'm using to post this from my hotel room). Just follow espresso's advice.
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  • Blacksheep1979
    Blacksheep1979 Posts: 4,224 Forumite
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    I believe Asus are already connected to the internet - https://www.asus.com
  • Mukaki
    Mukaki Posts: 64 Forumite
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    OK, I bought a modem router and set it all up yesterday - everything worked fantastically!

    This morning, I thought I'd test it again and try and connect but all I get is 'pending'. Why is it not connecting?? I've disconnected and reconnected (and even turned my desktop computer on thinking it would help!) trying to get it to work but no joy.
  • Mukaki
    Mukaki Posts: 64 Forumite
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    Big bump! This thread is disappearing.
  • mdbarber
    mdbarber Posts: 1,116 Forumite
    Only thing i can think of is the possibility that the desktop was switched off when you got this working first time and now.
    The lappy has cached the ip address from the router it wants to use but when you switched the desktop on it asserted a lease on that ip.

    Switch desktop on, confirm you have working internet, with it left on, then reset network settings on lappy and try again.
    If not try setting manual IP addresses, in the router reserve these addresses for each machine.
    post again if no joy i'll watch this thread
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