Help with setting up broadband connection...

HUFCsteve

Have borrowed my dad's PC to update a few bits and bobs (he's on dial up). However, have installed the USB netgear dongle and it seems to be connecting but I can't get onto any websites (saying forbidden, etc). Any ideas as to what settings I need to change?!?

Thanks!

Conor_3

I take it that from the above, you're using Wifi on a broadband connection at your house?

Go to Control Panel, Internet Options. Click on Connections and "Never Dial a Connection", then Apply and OK.

HUFCsteve

Had tried that already. Done it again and I get the following message in IE:

Forbidden
You were denied access because
Access denied by access control list

I haven't got a clue what it's talking about!

Simon_M_2

Install Firefox on the PC, you will then be able to access the net The problem is with IE6

HUFCsteve

Firefox doesn't work either. Leopard - thanks but I don't understand your post. Can you explain (to a non-Techie)!

Simon_M_2

A fresh install of Firefox would work for this problem, there is another way to try.

Open internet explorer click Tools>Internet Options>Connections>LAN Settings and untick everything, click OK then Apply and restart internet explorer

HUFCsteve

Thanks Simon_M and Leopard. I unticked those boxes in Internet Explorer and am now connected!!! Microsoft don't make it very easy do they? Getting ahead of myself perhaps but when I take the PC back to my dads and connect via dial up, do I need to retick those boxes? Is there anything else I need to change?

Simon_M_2

Leopard wrote: »

The problem is not with your browser - be it Firefox or anything else. (So reinstalling Firefox would achieve nothing.)

Every device, and every port on each one, has what is called a MAC code. It's a number.

The message you are seeing is your router's way of telling you that someone has, at some stage, to stop strangers using it, installed a list of the MAC numbers of the devices that are permitted to use it. You will get this message whatever browser you try to use.

You need to connect to your router with a device that it recognises (or via an Ethernet lead) and, using your browser, navigate through its menu system and add to that list the MAC number of your USB adaptor.

It will then permit the USB adaptor to access your router (and connect to the Internet).

By what means are you making your postings now?

(Note: I am going out to the bank, now, so I won't be here for a while.)

Tosh :rotfl:

HUFCsteve wrote: »

Thanks Simon_M and Leopard. I unticked those boxes in Internet Explorer and am now connected!!! Microsoft don't make it very easy do they? Getting ahead of myself perhaps but when I take the PC back to my dads and connect via dial up, do I need to retick those boxes? Is there anything else I need to change?

Just the first one

HUFCsteve

Thanks will try and remember!

Simon_M_2

Oh, and make sure you change Never dial a connection to Always dial my default connection

HUFCsteve

Hurrah - it worked. Thanks!