Linksys And Aol Broadband

Aiadi

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

You may have to tweak your mtu: to 1400

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

have you got it talking to your pc?

Aiadi

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.