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PriitK
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Hey! need some help with wireless.. =P
#9115414 - 10/22/08 12:36 PM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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hey whats up everyone? :o)
I bought a new laptop last night and I'm trying to make it wireless.. I'm having a lot of problems and I've been following the directions, it came with a disc...I even watched a few youtube videos and read some forums and still it just wont work...there must be something I'm doing wrong :'(
a bit of info..
I bought a LinkSys wireless-G speed booster router, I have SBCGlobal DSL and the dsl is a regular 4 slot 2wire router the gave me...
I have the Ethernet wire plugged into the laptop..and then plugged into the 1 port on the wireless router. I have the power on and plugged in...and the blue wire (came with router) I have in the wireless router that says Internet and then plugged into the first slot in my 2wire dsl router.
I tried going to the settings "192.168.1.1" and I really didn't know if I should change anything...The disc never told me to go there, I only did because of a youtube video. By the way the lights on the wireless router are on and working just like the video I seen. I went to "home" in my 2wire panel and my laptop ip is under a connection...
This is frustrating me hopefully someone here can help me out (i appreciate it!...)
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Re: Hey! need some help with wireless.. =P [Re: PriitK]
#9115472 - 10/22/08 12:47 PM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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i have a linksys router, they can be finicky lil bastards sometimes, first make sure that your card and router are working on the same bandwidth (a,b,g) then check your status lights and REFERENCE YOUR MANUAL, different linksys have different status lights. if it says everything is connected try resetting your ip, usually through command prompt, this depends on your OS.
if you cant get it to work usually your internet comapany will come out and set it up for you, i dont know about yours, but mine doesnt charge me anything extra for it.
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Re: Hey! need some help with wireless.. =P [Re: doulovebeef]
#9115515 - 10/22/08 12:56 PM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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Hey thanks for the info bro.
Can you explain to me about my card working on the same bandwidth? How do I check that?
thankks bud
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Re: Hey! need some help with wireless.. =P [Re: PriitK]
#9115531 - 10/22/08 12:58 PM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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sure man.. just look on your router, obviously you just said in your post that your router is a G band.. now look on your card, it may be in the manual.. if your card is B or G, it will work with a G router.
the only bandwidths that i know of are: A, B, and G
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Re: Hey! need some help with wireless.. =P [Re: doulovebeef]
#9115555 - 10/22/08 01:02 PM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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check firewalls too
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Re: Hey! need some help with wireless.. =P [Re: doulovebeef]
#9115604 - 10/22/08 01:11 PM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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It doesn't say anything about it in the manual but I'm checking the firewall like you said I'll let u know if it works i hope!
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Re: Hey! need some help with wireless.. =P [Re: PriitK]
#9115613 - 10/22/08 01:14 PM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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if that doesnt work then you should try opening command prompt from RUN on your start menu, when in command prompt type
ipconfig /renew
itll refresh all your connections, sometimes i have to do it if my laptop has been on another connection other than my home network
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Re: Hey! need some help with wireless.. =P [Re: doulovebeef]
#9115650 - 10/22/08 01:20 PM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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thanks should i just type that first or should i type ipconfig /release then ipconfig /renew?
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Re: Hey! need some help with wireless.. =P [Re: PriitK]
#9115691 - 10/22/08 01:25 PM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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you dont have to release them, you can just renew
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Re: Hey! need some help with wireless.. =P [Re: PriitK]
#9115697 - 10/22/08 01:27 PM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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I have never touched the settings for firewall but my 2wire router has these settings:
Settings Help Security
Check to enable the features below: Stealth Mode Block Ping Strict UDP Session Control Help Inbound and Outbound Control
Checking the box allows the associated traffic type through the firewall. Outbound HTTP HTTPS FTP Telnet SMTP DNS NetBIOS POP3 IMAP NNTP IRC H323 All Other Protocols Inbound Remote Management NetBIOS
and...
Attack Detection Check to detect the types of attacks below: Excessive Session Detection TCP/UDP Port Scan Invalid Source/Destination IP address Packet Flood (SYN/UDP/ICMP/Other) Invalid TCP Flag Attacks (NULL/XMAS/Other) Invalid ICMP Detection Miscellaneous
All of those options you can check or uncheck
is there any I should uncheck or check?
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Re: Hey! need some help with wireless.. =P [Re: PriitK]
#9115713 - 10/22/08 01:29 PM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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I tried that ipconfig release renew and resetting and the disc still says "Your new router does not appear to be connected properly: Error 322: New router or gateway not detected
So I'm guessing it's a firewall setting
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Re: Hey! need some help with wireless.. =P [Re: PriitK]
#9115846 - 10/22/08 01:59 PM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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dinner time hopefully someone knows if its the firewall settings or if it's the router itself thanks for the help
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Re: Hey! need some help with wireless.. =P [Re: PriitK]
#9115858 - 10/22/08 02:02 PM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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Hook up your laptop to the router with using a cable (it should be supplied with the router; anyway, any UTP patch cable should work), use that connection to configure the router and then try to connect it via wireless. First try to get wireless to work without any security, then add levels of security as desired. The autoconfig utility should work as well, but I always set these things up manually.
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Re: Hey! need some help with wireless.. =P [Re: koraks]
#9116186 - 10/22/08 03:07 PM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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I did all that still no luck
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Re: Hey! need some help with wireless.. =P [Re: PriitK]
#9116198 - 10/22/08 03:10 PM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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hmm... Im on the LNKSYS setup screen entering the IP in browser,
setup - wireless, security, access restrictions, admin, status should I change anything there?
I don't know what else to do in the 2wire router panel i pretty much did everything there
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Re: Hey! need some help with wireless.. =P [Re: PriitK]
#9116209 - 10/22/08 03:11 PM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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I'll just end up calling them up tommorrow if all else fails, I may try another router maybe it's just shitty -- I seen some kid on youtube trying to use it and it didnt work and he smashed it with a sledge hammer lol
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Re: Hey! need some help with wireless.. =P [Re: PriitK]
#9116210 - 10/22/08 03:12 PM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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Call LinkSys and see if they can walk you through it. When I set mine up years ago they had me though it in less than 10 minutes.
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Re: Hey! need some help with wireless.. =P [Re: PriitK]
#9116217 - 10/22/08 03:13 PM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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thanks ill try that hopefully its not too late or i get robots that take me no where :-x
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Re: Hey! need some help with wireless.. =P [Re: PriitK]
#9116395 - 10/22/08 03:41 PM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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Okay so the wireless is working but your internet isn't?
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Re: Hey! need some help with wireless.. =P [Re: PriitK]
#9116577 - 10/22/08 04:04 PM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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I know this sounds stupidly obvious, but you have tried restarting your computer, right? Restart, remove the card from the slot and reinsert it. Then restart your modem (unplug power, reinsert), wait 30 seconds, restart the router, wait 30 seconds. Then check google.com to see if you're connected.
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