BBnet + Linksys WRT54G

Keano

My broadband connection currently looks like this



There is a black cable going into P+Data out - this is the cable coming from the small dish on the roof.

The other port-data out-has a cable running to my network card.

I bought a WRT54G to go wirless but for the life of me cannot get it to work. I use the setup wizard on the cd provided but it gets to a point and asks me for a password! Should I be getting onto my ISP??

Anyone out there have BBnet and solved this issue or anyone got any suggestions.

Thanks

dub45

Could you tell us at which particular point of the set up it is asking for the password?

Keano

After I have all the leads connected to the router and the setup wizard starts checking the computer settings it completes and then asks for a password.

Keano

Tbh I am not sure I even have the cables connected correctly.

bushy...

Leave the username blank and use admin as the password


Before you do any more though , connect up the cable to your PC the way it was originally , then go

START----> CONTROL PANEL ----> look for "LAN or high speed internet"

find " Internet properties ( TCP/IP) " , highlight it , and click the "PROPERTIES " button below it.

If both are set to "Obtain an IP address automatically " , " Obtain DNS address automatically" , then you can move on .

If its set to manual and there are addresses in there , write them down and set them both to " Obtain automatically"

Now hook it all up like this

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black wire from roof

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POE

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WAN(internet) port of Linksys

then run a cable from any of the 4 LAN ports to your PC .

Start up the wizard again , at some stage it might ask what kind of internet connection you have , if you wrote down a bunch of IP addresses above , feed them to it, if not leave it at "DHCP"

hth

Keano

bushy... wrote: »

Leave the username blank and use admin as the password


Before you do any more though , connect up the cable to your PC the way it was originally , then go

START----> CONTROL PANEL ----> look for "LAN or high speed internet"

find " Internet properties ( TCP/IP) " , highlight it , and click the "PROPERTIES " button below it.

If both are set to "Obtain an IP address automatically " , " Obtain DNS address automatically" , then you can move on .

If its set to manual and there are addresses in there , write them down and set them both to " Obtain automatically"

Now hook it all up like this

---

black wire from roof

---

POE

---

WAN(internet) port of Linksys

then run a cable from any of the 4 LAN ports to your PC .

Start up the wizard again , at some stage it might ask what kind of internet connection you have , if you wrote down a bunch of IP addresses above , feed them to it, if not leave it at "DHCP"

hth

Asks for a password!

higster

Did you phone shane or barry at bbnet? Usually fairly helpful. I had same set up and didn't have to do amy of the above. Plug and play.

bushy...

Keano A Legend wrote: »

Asks for a password!

Try admin as password , if no joy put 192.168.1.1 in the address bar of a webbrowser and do the setup from there

Keano

higster wrote: »

Did you phone shane or barry at bbnet? Usually fairly helpful. I had same set up and didn't have to do amy of the above. Plug and play.

higster did you just connect the black cable to internet and the ethernet cable to pc and then 1 of the 4 ports?

bushy, when I try browse to 192.168.1.1 and I enter admin as the password it doesn't accept it. Eventually I get access is denied error!

higster

no connection to pc at all. Had LAN cable connected to linksys, had wireless switched on, had pc look for ip address autmatically (I did not have a static address), searched for wireless network on pc ant off she went. Where you at?I don't need my linksys if you want to give it a go (Cratloe area). Did you call bbnet?

Keano

higster wrote: »

no connection to pc at all. Had LAN cable connected to linksys, had wireless switched on, had pc look for ip address autmatically (I did not have a static address), searched for wireless network on pc ant off she went. Where you at?I don't need my linksys if you want to give it a go (Cratloe area). Did you call bbnet?

Here is what Barry said:

The cables are wrong.

The black cable going out to the antenna should connect into the small, cream coloured adaptor (where it says P/Data Out). One end of the red Ethernet cable goes where it says “Data In” – the other end then connects into the INTERNET port of the router

To put it another way, the red cable that used to connect into your desktop – just needs to be unplugged from the PC and plugged into the Internet port of the router.

To connect your desktop, you probably got a blue cable with the router – plug it into the PC and to one of the 4 ports on the router.

Keano

Success

Thanks for all the input.

higster

did it work

Duh should have read properly.