wireless cctv system clashes with wireless router

superscaper

Can you connect your laptop by ethernet to the router? This should allow you to change the channel back if it doesn't work and hence be a bit quicker for you to try all/some of the different channels without worrying about it knocking you off wireless altogether.

leosayer39

superscaper wrote: »

Can you connect your laptop by ethernet to the router? This should allow you to change the channel back if it doesn't work and hence be a bit quicker for you to try all/some of the different channels without worrying about it knocking you off wireless altogether.

Good point!

If I do that, do I just do the 192.168.0.1 thingy, to gain access to the router, as I would normally do if I was using the lappy in wire free mode? Or will the router just 'see' the lappy as soon as the lappy connects with the cable?

Incidently, why is the cable called an 'ethernet' cable (probably a whole new thread here lol)

Leo

superscaper

leosayer39 wrote: »

Good point!

If I do that, do I just do the 192.168.0.1 thingy, to gain access to the router, as I would normally do if I was using the lappy in wire free mode? Or will the router just 'see' the lappy as soon as the lappy connects with the cable?

Incidently, why is the cable called an 'ethernet' cable (probably a whole new thread here lol)

Leo

Same procedure (but you may want to make sure that your network/ethernet card/socket is abled in the device drivers). You should be able to tell because as soon as you connect by ethernet it should pop up an icon in the system tray to say so.

As for the "ethernet" system, that's just derived from the philosophical idea of the "a/ether", a kind of non tangible stuff that everything in space moves through. Was a scientific concept at one point that was discarded absolutely with Einstein. I guess IT techies adopted the name in a typical techie sense of humour type way rather than it having actual meaning beyond a very abstract analogy to the physical concept.

leosayer39

superscaper wrote: »

Same procedure (but you may want to make sure that your network/ethernet card/socket is abled in the device drivers). You should be able to tell because as soon as you connect by ethernet it should pop up an icon in the system tray to say so.

As for the "ethernet" system, that's just derived from the philosophical idea of the "a/ether", a kind of non tangible stuff that everything in space moves through. Was a scientific concept at one point that was discarded absolutely with Einstein. I guess IT techies adopted the name in a typical techie sense of humour type way rather than it having actual meaning beyond a very abstract analogy to the physical concept.

You know.......sometimes you ask a question......and you never wished that you had even mentioned the subject, let alone asked a question.......

Only kiddin....thanks for that....I do understand about the possibility of stuff being in the 'ether'. Einstein may have discarded the possibility, but I haven't....lol

Dark matter...Hmmmmm........? Another thread????????

Back to my problem, I will connect via the ethernet cable next week and give it a go.

Thanks for all of your help and I shall keep you all posted on how I get on.

Leo

superscaper

leosayer39 wrote: »

I do understand about the possibility of stuff being in the 'ether'. Einstein may have discarded the possibility, but I haven't....lol

In that particular context it was thought that light had to travel through "something" even in a vacuum. Einstein's special relativity showed it didn't need a material or ether to travel through. And so far relativity (along with quantum mechanics and evolution) are the most proven scientific theories ever with nothing to contradict them.

leosayer39

superscaper wrote: »

In that particular context it was thought that light had to travel through "something" even in a vacuum. Einstein's special relativity showed it didn't need a material or ether to travel through. And so far relativity (along with quantum mechanics and evolution) are the most proven scientific theories ever with nothing to contradict them.

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

And guess what, my wife thinks I m a saddo for watching,

Stargate SG1 (now sadly defunct),
Stargate Atlantis (very cool),
MoonLight (even cooler than Atlantis),
24 (not cancelled and still in the making),
Lost (as above I think),
Dr Who (coolest of them all),
Al Murrays Happy Hour, (cool AND very funny)
Bionic Woman (yes I do know they have only made 9 and then scrapped the series),
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (pretty cool, not too sure if it aint been scrapped though)

You see, I am a saddo
At least, she thought I was a saddo, until she read that last post of yours.

Waaaaaaay off topic here, but hey, its my thread and I can chat about anything lol

Only kiddin...now then...back to Dark Matter.......lol

Leo

superscaper

leosayer39 wrote: »

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

And guess what, my wife thinks I m a saddo for watching,

Stargate SG1 (now sadly defunct),
Stargate Atlantis (very cool),
MoonLight (even cooler than Atlantis),
24 (not cancelled and still in the making),
Lost (as above I think),
Dr Who (coolest of them all),
Al Murrays Happy Hour, (cool AND very funny)
Bionic Woman (yes I do know they have only made 9 and then scrapped the series),
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (pretty cool, not too sure if it aint been scrapped though)

You see, I am a saddo
At least, she thought I was a saddo, until she read that last post of yours.

Well I agree with your list but in addition I'm a member of a few professional institutions (engineering, physics etc) that would make me a professional saddo compared to you being merely an amateur

leosayer39

superscaper wrote: »

Well I agree with your list but in addition I'm a member of a few professional institutions (engineering, physics etc) that would make me a professional saddo compared to you being merely an amateur

:T :T
:rotfl: :rotfl:

Yea, but I am getting there lol

Goin out with the wife now for a meal, but we can continue our chat later

Leo

spud17

professional saddo

Surely better to be a paid saddo, than an unpaid one!

Mind you, there are those that would suggest we must all be a bit sad to be on here, full stop.

Only kidding, honest.

leosayer39

spud17 wrote: »

Surely better to be a paid saddo, than an unpaid one!

Mind you, there are those that would suggest we must all be a bit sad to be on here, full stop.

Only kidding, honest.

Actually, my wife doesn't refer to me as a saddo for being on here, as we both benefit when it comes to moneysaving.

She just hates just about anything anything sci fi, although she does, secretly methinks, enjoy some of the storylines in Atlantis.

She used to like Lost until I told her that I had been on a tv forum and that we were actually watching a sci fi show, and they were all aliens, living in an alternate universe. (Only kiddin of course.....Hmmmm not so sure though)

Moonlight....she likes that, so do I :j

Deep down I think that she secretly likes Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (good storylines again)

I don't mind being an unpaid saddo :j

Leo