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Advice on NTL and wireless

  • 07-12-2005 9:24pm
    #1
    eoineen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 187 ✭✭


    I seek advice. I've been all over these boards and this morning all over the city of Dublin seeking answers in anticipation of getting NTL bband installed and using a wireless connection. I'm no tech newbie but this has me all confussed. redface.gif

    Went to to the good people of Peats and picked up a Linksys wireless router (of the model type) often mention here: WRTGS or something. Following purchase I noted that I needed win2000 or better to use this router. I currently run 98SE with no ethernet port. I took it back 15mins later and got the money back but not before the sales assistant mentioned that it does not matter what OS you use, as long as I had an ethernet port - I don't. That's that then. confused.gif

    Advice from the good people at Unity around the corner put me right I think...wait for NTL to install their modem and then figure out my wireless options. Someone else here must have got NTL bband in their place and wanted to use wireless on a machine less 5 years old - my laptop is.

    One last thing....in consideration of my question, I'm switching to Mac in the next three months so this is an interim hardware solution really. Thanks.


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  • #2
    carrotcake
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,085 ✭✭✭carrotcake


    i've hooked up a win98 machine to a wireless router before without any problems. i linked them using an ethernet card, for which i had to download drivers, since win98 doesn't seem to have ethernet card drivers already installed. i'm also on ntl, but the service provider shouldn't make a difference


  • #3
    johnjay
    Closed Accounts Posts: 120 ✭✭johnjay


    I am using NTL over a wireless connection (though my NTL is down tonite!) I have a SMC Barricade Router. NTL only support one connection to their service - so u must have your laptop ready for them to install. AFAIK you WILL need a network port on your PC/laptop for them to connect. Once they have connected you can then sort out your wireless options. The way the Barricade works is that it emulates the MAC address of your PC/Laptop that you used initially to connect to NTL (fooling NTL into thinking that its your machine that’s connected directly to it, not the router). You router then splits this connection up for as many PC’s as you require.


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