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help with wireless connection

  • 10-09-2006 12:55pm
    #1
    jimmy2shoes
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35 ✭


    Hi there,

    Been reading the forum to see if my problem has come up, haven't found anything yet, so thought i'd ask the knowledge base on here.

    Basically have BT broadband through the Zytel Prestige 600 series which is a USB modem. I'd imaging a lot of people have them. My other half got a lap top off her family for her birthday, it has a wireless pc card already with it. She is pregnant so wanted to use the lap top to access the internet in bed when on maternity leave. I bought, after asking for advise, an Edimax BR-6204Wg router, and was basically told to follow the instructions. Now i've done that however on the router the WLAN just flashes orange and not green. I've tried everything my limited knowledge knows but to no avial. Now the lap top does detect the wireless network however doesn't connect ot the internet. I'm sure people on here have the same equipment, any ideas?

    by the way i can access the internet like now when i use the routerbetween the pc and the modem, so in terms of wired connection it works.


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


    If the modem is usb, how do you connect it to the router?


  • #3
    jimmy2shoes
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35 ✭jimmy2shoes


    the modem has an ethernet cable port so i just bouht an ethernet cable and linked from the modems lan ethernet to the wan on the router.


  • #4
    irlrobins
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,541 ✭✭✭irlrobins


    Have you put the modem into bridge mode? (see instructions in FAQ sticked at top of forum)


  • #5
    Foxwood
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,491 ✭✭✭Foxwood


    jimmy2shoes wrote:
    Basically have BT broadband through the Zytel Prestige 600 series which is a USB modem. I'd imaging a lot of people have them. My other half got a lap top off her family for her birthday, it has a wireless pc card already with it. She is pregnant so wanted to use the lap top to access the internet in bed when on maternity leave. I bought, after asking for advise, an Edimax BR-6204Wg router,
    Who did you get that advice from? Do they know anything about setting up a wireless network :). (I've never heard of Edimax before your post. Google has, but apparently only in countries where English isn't the first language).
    and was basically told to follow the instructions. Now i've done that however on the router the WLAN just flashes orange and not green. I've tried everything my limited knowledge knows but to no avial. Now the lap top does detect the wireless network however doesn't connect ot the internet. I'm sure people on here have the same equipment, any ideas?
    I'm pretty sure you're wrong about anyone here having that equipment, so you'll only get generic advice. Does the router have a web interface that you access to set it up? Can you access that interface from the laptop?
    by the way i can access the internet like now when i use the routerbetween the pc and the modem, so in terms of wired connection it works.
    Can you open a command prompt on each machine, and post the output of IPCONFIG /all .

    Can you PING 82.195.136.250 from the laptop?


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