o2 Broadband - going wireless

fatboyonadiet

I was with Tiscali previously and had a netgear router which was wired for my desktop and I used wireless for my laptop.

I recently changed to o2 broadband and had to use their router when I was setting up, however if I want to go wireless I have to get an o2 wireless adaptor.

Is there anyway around this? Can I go back to my netgear router??

Woby_Tide

why do you need an O2 wireless adaptor? Just put your netgear router back in and update the configuration to use the O2 details

fatboyonadiet

I'd rather not have to get one, if I try to set it up via the o2 set-up method it tells me I need that, I'll have to set it back up with my netgear instead

[Deleted User]

Hi,

was thinking same thing, is router 'locked' to provider, or could I use aol router with Plusnet broadband?

colin79666

You can use the o2 router but any wireless adaptor for your PC. The o2 router uses the same 802.11g standard as everyone else...

fatboyonadiet

cheers, i'll have to have another bash at it

fatboyonadiet

Just in case anyone else is looking to do this the settings can be found here:

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=720334