Crap Wireless Connection - HELP Please

mercman1969

BUGGA
How the hell am i supposed to do that

keep running between rooms

debitcardmayhem

Found this on another site in the meantime here
Seems straight forward let me know if you have any problems following it.
However it seems that you may need to still have them connected by ethernet cable. I will try and get on to netgear site again .....

Alternately you could to see if the netgear is seen ok upstairs
You could try swapping the out the thomson and use the netgear instead. You can use the ethernet cable to config it for your plusnet user id as follows

encapulation ..... PPoA
multiplx .............. VC
QOS UBR
VPI 0
VCI 38
Login Name youruserid@plusdsl.net
Password yourpassword
Then Plug in your cable from your phone socket into the wan port . Also set up your WEP/WPA passwords and Network SSID.

Still no news on the netgear site

mercman1969

debitcardmayhem wrote: »

Found this on another site in the meantime here
Seems straight forward let me know if you have any problems following it.
However it seems that you may need to still have them connected by ethernet cable. I will try and get on to netgear site again .....

Alternately you could to see if the netgear is seen ok upstairs
You could try swapping the out the thomson and use the netgear instead. You can use the ethernet cable to config it for your plusnet user id as follows

encapulation ..... PPoA
multiplx .............. VC
QOS UBR
VPI 0
VCI 38
Login Name [EMAIL="youruserid@plusdsl.net"]youruserid@plusdsl.net[/EMAIL]
Password yourpassword
Then Plug in your cable from your phone socket into the wan port . Also set up your WEP/WPA passwords and Network SSID.

Still no news on the netgear site

I dont understand a word of any of that:o

debitcardmayhem

It seems that you will still need to use an ethernet cable to connect the two routers. I cannot find anything in the manuals or on Google about using either of them as an access point only (ie as a wireless repeater). Will look more tomorrow, wife getting lonely.:o

debitcardmayhem

Morning Merc,

haven't found anything useful thus far about using the two as wireless access points, except connecting them using an ethernet cable.
Lets start with seeing if the New router (Netgear) has a better chance of being seen upstairs.
Plug it in and switch on downstairs, don't worry about config yet nor about plugging it into the phone. Then go upstairs and use inssider with the dongle and lets see how much strength you have using the dongle. Let me know the result the netgear will probably be on channel 11.

mercman1969

A very good morning to you

Will have to wait until this evening when finish work
so just plug in the netgear downstairs and then plug in the netgear dongle into the computer upstairs and run that insider program?

debitcardmayhem

mercman1969 wrote: »

A very good morning to you

Will have to wait until this evening when finish work
so just plug in the netgear downstairs and then plug in the netgear dongle into the computer upstairs and run that insider program?

Yeah last results with Thomson were
Channel 6
RSSI -90
Speed 54

We hope we can get better using the Netgear.

mercman1969

Ok,

Here are the results from the ssid on my netgear

Channel 6
RSSI -94
Speed 54


Not got a clue what they mean but they seem preety similar to me

debitcardmayhem

mercman1969 wrote: »

Ok,

Here are the results from the ssid on my netgear

Channel 6
RSSI -94
Speed 54


Not got a clue what they mean but they seem preety similar to me

That looks like the Thomson is there anything on channel 11 ? is the wifi light on the netgear lit up ? And does inssider show it as SSID Netgear?

mercman1969

It is connecting to the netgear as it is showing the name given to the connection when i set it up many years ago
how do i change the channels

all i have done is applied power to it and connected it to the phone line