Wireless help please!!!! (talktalk)

Rock_Bottom

elfmay wrote: »

More like CRASH/BANG! I'm about to throw the sodden thing out of an upstairs window!!!!!!! :rolleyes: :rotfl:

I can't do it!!!!! :mad:

Connected everything up, router to modem, router to laptop, had a internet connection. Configured as per the manual and sweet FA! :rolleyes: Have had to connect via ethernet from modem to beg for help before I loose what little sanity I have left!

It's a configuration problem, your computer is not recognising the connection ... ho ho ho, into the settings we go - actually it should do it automatically.

elfmay

Oh and..........(sorry ) ........I tried to configure the settings manually via 192.168.0.1(as stated in manual) but I can't access it?

I can get talktalk's on 192.168.1.1 but have no idea what I do, if anything, after that!?

elfmay

Rock_Bottom wrote: »

It's a configuration problem, your computer is not recognising the connection ... ho ho ho, into the settings we go - actually it should do it automatically.

No !!!!!! Sherlock!!!! :rotfl:

I'm kidding! Please help!

vyseyboy

elfmay wrote: »

More like CRASH/BANG! I'm about to throw the sodden thing out of an upstairs window!!!!!!! :rolleyes: :rotfl:

I can't do it!!!!! :mad:

Connected everything up, router to modem, router to laptop, had a internet connection. Configured as per the manual and sweet FA! :rolleyes: Have had to connect via ethernet from modem to beg for help before I loose what little sanity I have left!

What did you configure? Tell us everything. Do you have the talktalk username and password entered into the router config? Did you enter an SSID name for the wireless network? Did you enable any kind of security? On the laptop, can you "see" your wireless network? And if so, what happens when you try to connect?

Edit: Oh, and remember once everythings connected and configured, power off the modem and router, and power them on again, (and this is important) in the correct order.

That is modem first, wait about 60 seconds, then the router.

Rock_Bottom

There should be a cable connected from your router to your desktop if you are not using your desktop wireless, you will need an adaptor for your desktop to go wireless. Your lappy will just work wireless independantly once it is configured.

elfmay

ok..............Set up as explained above and had connection......

As per manual instructions I checked that TCP/IP setting was set to obtain IP address automatically, restarted as instructed.
Then followed these instuctions.......


If your network adapter is a wireless adapter, besides above TCP/IP settings you also have to set the ESSID to ‘Sitecom’ and the mode to ‘Infrastructure’ in order to make a connection with the Wireless Broadband Router



Windows XP

·[FONT=&quot] [/FONT]In the Taskbar, click on the Start button and select - Settings – Control Panel - Internet options.
·[FONT=&quot] [/FONT]Select the tab Connections and click the Setup… button.
·[FONT=&quot] [/FONT]When the New Connection Wizard starts, click on Next.
·[FONT=&quot] [/FONT]Select Connect to internet and click on Next.
·[FONT=&quot] [/FONT]Select Set up my connection manually and click on Next.
·[FONT=&quot] [/FONT]Select Connect using a broadband connection that is always on and click on Next.
·[FONT=&quot] [/FONT]Click on Finish to close the Wizard.
·[FONT=&quot] [/FONT]In the Taskbar, click on the Start button and select - Settings – Control Panel - Internet options.
·[FONT=&quot] [/FONT]Select the Connections taband click on the LAN Settings button.
·[FONT=&quot] [/FONT]Check carefully that none of the boxes in the Local Area Network (LAN) Settings window are checked.

The configuration is now completed.

I make no pretense to actually understanding much of that!

vyseyboy

If you go start > settings > network connections > wireless adapter (might have a different name, but something to do with wireless) and then click view wireless networks, can you see the "sitecom" network? And try connecting to it?

Rock_Bottom

Are you connected now or what.?

elfmay

vyseyboy wrote: »

What did you configure? Tell us everything. Do you have the talktalk username and password entered into the router config? Did you enter an SSID name for the wireless network? Did you enable any kind of security? On the laptop, can you "see" your wireless network? And if so, what happens when you try to connect?

Edit: Oh, and remember once everythings connected and configured, power off the modem and router, and power them on again, (and this is important) in the correct order.

That is modem first, wait about 60 seconds, then the router.

I haven't entered talktalk username or PW or SSID name? Only got as far as last post and lost connection via that set up? Had to connect to modem on its own to get back online?

Sorry guys! I'm feeling very inadequate!!! :rotfl:

elfmay

vyseyboy wrote: »

If you go start > settings > network connections > wireless adapter (might have a different name, but something to do with wireless) and then click view wireless networks, can you see the "sitecom" network? And try connecting to it?

Yes, it says unsecured wireless network. Connected?

Signal strength says excellent?

Is it just not 'talking' to the modem?