Wireless Internet

pollyanna24

Yep, tried the network key number. Maybe there really is something wrong with my puta and we're not that stoopid after all!

chuckles1066

pollyanna24 wrote:

Yeah, a little sky router box thingie came from Sky. But it just says it can't connect wireless. Not quite sure what to do. All the right lights seem to be on.

The only way I'm actually managing to get the internet now is cos there's a yellow lead connecting my laptop to the little sky router box.

well I'm not au fait with Sky's setup but essentially you should have something like:

(1) cable into back of the router, meaning your internet traffic HAS to go via the router
(2) an ethernet cable from your router into your main pc's network card

On your main pc, what happens when you go into IE and type http://192.168.1.1 ?

pollyanna24

I only have my laptop, no main PC, but when I typed that in, it took me to a packard bell page.

espresso

pollyanna24 wrote:

I only have my laptop, no main PC, but when I typed that in, it took me to a packard bell page.

So if you disconnect the cable, can you then see your own network when you click on the wireless icon?

pollyanna24

If I was to disconnect the cable, I think it does do that, yeah. Wireless icon just says disconnected.

Mrs_pbradley936

Lots of people unhappy with Sky for broadband it seems:-

http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/forums/index.cfm?action=showthread&threadid=256199&forumid=2

chuckles1066

pbradley936 wrote:

Lots of people unhappy with Sky for broadband it seems:-

http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/forums/index.cfm?action=showthread&threadid=256199&forumid=2

I wouldn't want to be a netgear user right about now either, their home page currently says "Service Unavailable" :rotfl:

How helpful

Chippy_Minton

As previously mentioned, the Sky broadband router box is a Netgear DG834GT with Sky's firmware.

The address of the router config is http://192.168.0.1 - username admin password sky. Go into the Wireless Settings page and make sure Enable Wireless Access Point and Allow Broadcast of Name are both ticked. Set Security to Disable for now. We can make it secure once the basic wireless connectivity is working.

We also need to find out whether the wireless is enabled on the laptop. To do this, click Start - Run - type cmd and click OK. In the new window that's just opened type:

ipconfig/all > temp.txt
notepad temp.txt

Copy and paste everything from Notepad into this thread.

espresso

pollyanna24 wrote:

If I was to disconnect the cable, I think it does do that, yeah. Wireless icon just says disconnected.

OK what I am saying is that you need to connect either using the Ethernet cable or disconnect the Ethernet cable and then try to establish a wireless connection. If you do this you should be prompted for the WPA key, and when entered it should allow you to connect. The post above mentioned trying to connect to http://192.168.1.1 but I believe that it should be 192.168.0.1 to access the routers config screens. There is a Skyuser forum with lots of useful posts on here which may be of use.

albertross_2

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.html?p=2471408&postcount=37

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.html?p=2471410&postcount=38