Please help me with my Wireless. THANKS!!

COPPERS459_2

I recently purchased one of the Dell 1300 Inspiron, and I want to connect to the internet from another part in the house, so I was told I needed a Router to do this, so the best price I could find is a 3COM office connect adsl wireless.
So I plugged it in nothing.
I have a modem which has the phone line going in and a blue usb cable coming out which goes into one of my USB ports.
the Router has a adsl telephone socket type thing and 4 seperate LAN ports.
So I turn the laptop on and it says that I am connected to the 3COM router,
but how do I get online, I have had some people telling me that this is the wrong router, others telling me it is correct, AOL telling me I cant use wireless on the package I am on (AOL silver) as the network doesnt support this.
I am hoping one of you wonderful techies out there could support me in this as I am at the end of my tether trying to work it out.

Thanks in advance

Steve

albertross_2

Have you read the manual..? you have to plug the phone line into the router, and the router into your PC. You also have to configure the router by going to the config page, and putting in your isp username and password.

you need to get it working wired (with an ethernet cable, not usb) before attempting wireless.

Aol should work, regardless of your package, but you may need to lower your mtu to 1400 or 1460, using tcpoptimizer or similar
http://www.speedguide.net/tcpoptimizer.php

Hillfly

Can you post the exact model of the router please?

COPPERS459_2

Hi Hillfly
3COM officeconnect ADSL Wireless 11g Firewall router as seen here:

http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?action=c2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=97523

Thanks for helping
Steve

albertross_2

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=152996&highlight=1400

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=153322&highlight=1400

COPPERS459_2

Thanks albertross,
I am no techie and things like this are too difficult to me, can you give me any advice in laymans terms.
Thanks mate
Steve

albertross_2

Can/have you plugged it in using an ethernet cable as suggested?

have you entered your aol username and password into the router?

COPPERS459_2

Hi Albertross,
Where does the ethernet cable plug into, I have the phone line plugged into my normal adsl modem and then a usb into my computer, then I have another cable plugged from my LAN1 port into the phone type socket onto my main base computer.

On my laptop it says it is connected to my 3com router via wireless, but I dont know what to do now.

albertross_2

You ditch the usb modem, the router replaces it. the phone line goes into the router, and then you connect an ethernet cable to one of the 4 ports on the router, and the other end into your laptop or PC.

Are there any instructions with it.. there should be a config page which you access by using internet explorer something like http://192.168.0.1 or http://192.168.1.1 this number varies from router to router

http://www.adslguide.org.uk/hardware/reviews/2004/q4/3com-g72.asp

COPPERS459_2

Hi Albertros,
I will give this a try and see if I can get it to work, if I cant can I call on you again.

Thanks
Steve

Hillfly

Albetross beat me to it. Still here's what i wrote:


You wont need you old modem. Unplug it.
Plug your new mdoem router into the microfilter where the old mdeom used to go (shoudl be sam type of connector).

Plug an ethernet cable into one of the 4 ports in the router. Plug the other end into the pc.

Go to the start menu.
Select 'show all connections'.
"Local Area Connection" shoud show as 'Connected'.

If so, then open internet explorer. You will need to 'login' to the router. Type the follwing into the address bar:

192.168.0.1

You should be promted to login. The username = admin. I don't think there is a password set.

Once logged in you will need to enter your broadband username and password.
Once this is done your router should be connected to the internet and you should be able to surf the web.

I'm afraid i have a different router so i can't give more precise details.

Maybe someone else can help from this point.