help with wireless connected to tesco.net

winkasgirl

Hi everyone I have bought my 2 sons a playstation 3 as a late Christmas present and they want to connect up to the internet but I am a compete novice at this!!! so I am going to let my son greg ask all the questions from now on. Any help would be fab thank you ..... over to you Greg!

Hi, I have brought a d-link wireless router and our internet provider is tesco.net on broadband and we pay £17.97 per month but the broadband modem is conneted to the computer via usb not an ethenet connection and i am unable to set up the configherations 4 the router. help would be sincerely thankful.
many thanks greg

cledor

1- Which D-Link Router did you buy, does it have a built-in "ADSL" modem or is it simply called "DSL" router?

2- Does your computer have an Ethernet network socket on the back?

3- Did you get any wireless adapters?

winkasgirl

thanks for your prompt reply cledor

1/ router is called DSL-G624T, my modem has a built in ADSL

2/ my computer has a ethenet port

3/and i did get an adapter which is a airplus G wireless USB adapter called DWL-G122

cledor

Your D-Link router includes a modem, so you'll need to disconnect your existing USB Modem and replace it with the D-Link Router, and connect it to your computer by ethernet wire.

Then (from the setting up guide) You need to
Open Browser and Type: 192.168.1.1
a. Username: admin
b. Password: admin
Then follow the instructions on how to configure it, in most cases you'll at least have to enter your Tesco.net broadband username and password.

Once you have set it up and obtained access to the internet, you can proceed with setting up the wireless access adapter.

It is highly advisable to read the relevant sticky on wireless routers in this forum, specially relating to securing your wireless network. But do make sure your router works in wired mode first, then in wireless without encryption, and finally with WPA encryption. It is best to keep at least one PC connected by wire as this will not be prone to be affected by any possible failures on the wireless side of the network.