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Wireless Networking Issues

  • 30-01-2006 10:34pm
    #1
    ethernet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,568 ✭✭✭


    I bought an ADSL router from Netgear yesterday [DG834GT]. Not using the ADSL function just yet, though.

    There will be three computer on the network: my own, a laptop and another desktop. The router is connected to mine; the HP laptop has built-in wireless and the router came with a Netgear 102 Mbps Wireless USB 2.0 Adapter [for the desktop].

    I've just spend the past two hours trying to get it all working -- Windows cannot even see the network, altough I'm broadcasting the SSID. I even tried different encryption -- none, WPA [entered the key the router generated into the boxes that required them], WEP [entered the key]. How should I be doing this? There are endless options in the menus -- should the system be detected as a wireless network? I tried using an option to set up a home or office wireless connection. No joy.

    I have changed the workgroup name on all computers and restarted. At one stage, one network was recognised -- "SW03"; nothing similar to my workgroup/SSID. However, the signal was at the highest level, so I question it ...

    DHCP is activated. My PC is 192.168.0.1. I also tried adding connections under the 'properties' option of the wireless network devices installed on the laptop and second desktop. Again, no success.

    I don't know what I'm doing wrong. Any help/suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks.


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  • #2
    eoineen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 187 ✭✭eoineen


    I too have recently installed the Linksys WRTG54 router (am on NTL bband) and am having difficulty making it secure on my Win98SE laptop. I have yet to find a decent guide on making the connection secure ANYWHERE on the web. :(


  • #3
    Peace
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,758 ✭✭✭Peace


    ethernet wrote:
    I bought an ADSL router from Netgear yesterday [DG834GT]. Not using the ADSL function just yet, though.

    There will be three computer on the network: my own, a laptop and another desktop. The router is connected to mine; the HP laptop has built-in wireless and the router came with a Netgear 102 Mbps Wireless USB 2.0 Adapter [for the desktop].

    I've just spend the past two hours trying to get it all working -- Windows cannot even see the network, altough I'm broadcasting the SSID. I even tried different encryption -- none, WPA [entered the key the router generated into the boxes that required them], WEP [entered the key]. How should I be doing this? There are endless options in the menus -- should the system be detected as a wireless network? I tried using an option to set up a home or office wireless connection. No joy.

    I have changed the workgroup name on all computers and restarted. At one stage, one network was recognised -- "SW03"; nothing similar to my workgroup/SSID. However, the signal was at the highest level, so I question it ...

    DHCP is activated. My PC is 192.168.0.1. I also tried adding connections under the 'properties' option of the wireless network devices installed on the laptop and second desktop. Again, no success.

    I don't know what I'm doing wrong. Any help/suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks.

    Disable all the bells and whistles like encryption. Get it working first as a basic unsecured network. After you have the computers connecting to it then its easy to enable to security afterwards.

    What IP address does the router have? And will the other computers join the network as expected if you plug them in using a LAN cable.


  • #4
    KELTICKNIGHTT
    Registered Users Posts: 3,799 ✭✭✭KELTICKNIGHTT


    having pron with canyon router that came with wirelessbb
    got locked out


  • #5
    ethernet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,568 ✭✭✭ethernet


    Peace wrote:
    Disable all the bells and whistles like encryption. Get it working first as a basic unsecured network. After you have the computers connecting to it then its easy to enable to security afterwards.

    Thanks, all, for replies.

    Windows insisted on using WEP at least or the wizard wouldn't work. Now using WPA-PSK with 29-character password.

    I managed to made a wireless connection to a desktop in the house. It's very annoying that Netgear's software is running concurrently with Windows'. However, Windows won't let me set up a wireless network unless I allow it to take control over the wireless adapter. Then Netgear's software throws a wobblie -- varying speeds by the second. Seems to settle down after a while.

    How do I network my desktop [connected to the rooter] with the other desktop [connected to the wireless USB adapter]? In 'My Network Places', under my workgroup, I saw both my PC and the other one. Just to try and obtain the same on the other PCs now. My family's patience is wearing thin with me hogging their PCs trying to get this working!
    Peace wrote:
    What IP address does the router have? And will the other computers join the network as expected if you plug them in using a LAN cable.

    The rooter's IP address is 192.168.0.1 [the default gateway according to "ipconfig /all"]. Trying a LAN cable isn't really an option -- no spares and the desktops are on opposite sides of the house, unfortunately.


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