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Eircom Router Problem

johnfás · 2010-04-05 14:22:16

Hey guys I have no problem connecting to my internet at home wirelessly on my laptop. Equally we have one desktop PC which is directly plugged into our router. However, when I try to plug my laptop into the router with a network cable (trying to download something faster) it won't connect to the internet over the cable.…

05-04-2010 3:22pm

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johnfás

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Hey guys

I have no problem connecting to my internet at home wirelessly on my laptop. Equally we have one desktop PC which is directly plugged into our router.

However, when I try to plug my laptop into the router with a network cable (trying to download something faster) it won't connect to the internet over the cable.

Any ideas what the problem is?

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#2 05-04-2010 4:38pm

dazdrog

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is your ethernet turned on? like on the laptop as that always helps

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#3 05-04-2010 9:56pm

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Do you have the drivers installed for your network card on the laptop?
In XP/Vista go to Start->Run and type in devmgmt.msc and scoll down to the network adaptors.
You should have one for your wireless card and another for your network card.

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