Wireless router

[Paul in NZ]

I'm a bit crook so i thought I'd set up one of the kids laptops onto the wireless router tonight...

I hate the bloody thing now...

Looks like another 4 hour conversation with the man in India - D'oh!

[avgas]

I had the same prob, took the wireless switch to the korean store i bought it from - he refused to refund then came around after hours and set the whole thing up. free labour is awesome.

[Paul in NZ]

Nah - its a good thing, mines working on it now but I'm a thicko when it comes to this shit... I'll annoy a clever bastard like Jim2 and eventually he will feel sorry for me and sort it out in 5 mins...

Or I'll call the nice man in India (again)

d'oh

[boomer]

Nah - its a good thing, mines working on it now but I'm a thicko when it comes to this shit... I'll annoy a clever bastard like Jim2 and eventually he will feel sorry for me and sort it out in 5 mins...

Or I'll call the nice man in India (again)

d'oh


pleze call agin

[Paul in NZ]

pleze call agin


Ya can't fool me fella - I said the NICE man in india! :innocent: At least i stopped before I broke it this time...

Mind you - we criticise but his english is a lot better than my Indian...

[boomer]

Mind you - we criticise but his english is a lot better than my Indian...

i bet you make a mean indjian mate...

[riffer]

What's it doing Paul?

[Paul in NZ]

What's it doing Paul?

Working perfectly despite my best efforts - its a 4 port one and I want to enable the other 2 laptops to work on it..

[Paul in NZ]

i bet you make a mean indjian mate...

Nah! I'm no good with curry and I can't fold a towel on a rack let alone me head..

[riffer]

Working perfectly despite my best efforts - its a 4 port one and I want to enable the other 2 laptops to work on it..

So where's the difficulty?

I take it you've set the router up to act as a DHCP server, set up a password for access, and set the laptops to recognise the wireless network?

[Paul in NZ]

So where's the difficulty?

I take it you've set the router up to act as a DHCP server, set up a password for access, and set the laptops to recognise the wireless network?

The difficulty is I'm a fucking moron... I thought we established that already? ;-)

The laptops see the network but it asks for a key - I think there were 4 in the router (direct connection, log in as admin, forgot the password) and I didn't write the other 3 down... Stupid i know but I'm sick at the mo and don't care any more - is there anything more wretched than a man with a cold...

[Fatjim]

The difficulty is I'm a fucking moron... I thought we established that already? ;-)

The laptops see the network but it asks for a key - I think there were 4 in the router (direct connection, log in as admin, forgot the password) and I didn't write the other 3 down... Stupid i know but I'm sick at the mo and don't care any more - is there anything more wretched than a man with a cold...

I guess you need the key then, Doh!

If you can't remember what you've put in, or what the router admin password is (try admin), or you can't get your existing machine to "show key" then you will have to factory reset the router and start again.

[Paul in NZ]

I guess you need the key then, Doh!

If you can't remember what you've put in, or what the router admin password is (try admin), or you can't get your existing machine to "show key" then you will have to factory reset the router and start again.

Hey - you look even less indian than I do!! Stop making sense.

Admin admin makes sense - I'll try that tonight..

[Indiana_Jones]

while we're on the subject, can anyone tell me how to change the settings of a router, from a pc that i didn't use to set it up? (i.e. the computer that logs onto onto the network)

and how does LAN work and how does one set it up?

cheers

-Indy

[Cajun]

Paul - the key it is asking for the wifi key,(not the router admin login) normaly a 8 or 15 long key you put in. be in the routher under WEP, WPK or simlar

Indy - it will have a web interface be it 192.1681.1, 10.1.1.1, do an ipconfig /all in a dos(command window), and look for bit that says 'gateway' when have that throw that in IE or FF and there ya go

[Paul in NZ]

Paul - the key it is asking for the wifi key,(not the router admin login) normaly a 8 or 15 long key you put in. be in the routher under WEP, WPK or simlar

It's a 4 port router so i assume it has 4 keys to allow 4 PC's to access it?

I logg into the router via the ethernet cable direct to one of the ports, put in the std IP addy and i think I should find them in there eh?

Shit - I sound almost technical...

[Cajun]

no the 4 ports(ethernet) do not need key of any kind, the wireless(wifi) is a different story,

might be a good idea if one of local welly type geeks come out and give you a handy.

To set it up all correctly, its less than an hour for someone who knows enough

But what you want to do is log in to router (with a pc on ethernet) and look for the wireless/wifi section of the router page, and it should have something called WEP, WPA, shared key or simlar.

ANd thats the key you need to put in laptop to connect wireless to it

[Paul in NZ]

no the 4 ports(ethernet) do not need key of any kind, the wireless(wifi) is a different story,

might be a good idea if one of local welly type geeks come out and give you a handy.

To set it up all correctly, its less than an hour for someone who knows enough

But what you want to do is log in to router (with a pc on ethernet) and look for the wireless/wifi section of the router page, and it should have something called WEP, WPA, shared key or simlar.

ANd thats the key you need to put in laptop to connect wireless to it

Sweet as - I can do that...:innocent: Thanks

[Cajun]

if ya want me to talk ya thru it pm me a number and i can ring

[Paul in NZ]

Bloody thing.... gah!

OK - I have the second laptop 'connecting' but it can't seem to get a valid IP address and thus access to the interweb..

Quite exciting but ultimately another useless evening fiddling.. argh!

[Paul in NZ]

if ya want me to talk ya thru it pm me a number and i can ring

You are a bloody legend!!!! Thanks!!!

[Cajun]

No worrys man, happy to help.

now you can wander to the garage with the laptop, to get away from dance with star.