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Broadband setup question

  • 01-08-2006 9:18am
    #1
    baguio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 199 ✭✭


    I have BT broadband setup in the house with a wireless router/modem (zyxel prestige 600 series). One of the lads in the house now wants to get online with his pc. The wireless card that I have - i'm having difficulty setting up. I couldnt get it working with the drivers on my pc before and I dont have the drivers on disk anyways to have a go at installing it on his.

    So - as i have a spare regular zyxel router - i thought we could use this, plug it into the phone point in his room and get him online this way. Is it ok to have two routers/modems running off the home phone line/DSL connection??

    Anyways, assuming its ok to do this, I am having some difficulties with this. When I go to the http address of the router and press enter on Internet Explorer, the connection popup box for a 'dialup' connection comes up (he would have had dialup setup on this pc previously). I went back and created a new broadband connection but still cant connect/get to the router config screen. I originally used this router myself before my wireless router arrived and it worked first time (although i was using firefox as the browser - i think IE is throwing me off course somehow?).

    Any ideas?


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  • #2
    irlrobins
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,541 ✭✭✭irlrobins


    baguio wrote:
    I dont have the drivers on disk anyways
    Get the drivers from the manufacturer's website
    baguio wrote:
    Is it ok to have two routers/modems running off the home phone line/DSL connection??
    Not at the same time, you can have one or other on, not both.
    baguio wrote:
    the connection popup box for a 'dialup' connection comes up
    Open IE, Tools->Internet Options. Click on Connection tab. Choose never dial a connection.


  • #3
    baguio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 199 ✭✭baguio


    Get the drivers from the manufacturer's website
    Yeah I have done so on the other pc - didnt want to go to the trouble of burning them onto a disk - but i suppose i will have to now anyways.
    Not at the same time, you can have one or other on, not both.
    Ok, thanks for clearing that one up.


  • #4
    baguio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 199 ✭✭baguio


    I have established a connection between the linksys wireless G network adapter and the zyxel router. However, it acknowledges the link but says that ' a connection to the internet cannot be found'.

    Anyone know what the next step is?


    Edit - Scratch that. Its working fine now. Probably the fact that I had bíttorrent fired up and running to the max in both directions that was slowing things down.


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