Netopia Wireless Hub/ADSL Routers for €24.99 in PCWorld

Sponge Bob · 10-01-2007 4:58pm

if it works with digiweb FWA as described 2 or 3 posts back (IE with dhcp turned off) then probably yes. It can easily be gotten rid of if no.

Capt'n Midnight · 10-01-2007 8:13pm

To_be_confirmed wrote:

All I did was switch the DCHP off.
...
So far, so good. Behaving exactly like an access point and combined switch, all for €25. Thanks eircom!!:p

qft

adox · 11-01-2007 8:47pm

Picked one of these up in Blanchardstown today,thanks to the op.
I'm using it at the moment after replacing my Zyxel from BT.
One question about wireless(as its my first time).When trying to set up a network,even though I am a BT customer,I choose the Eircom option in the network list right?

Also when I get to WEP its asks for a password.Thats the first encyption key in the advanced wireless setup on the router right?

Sorry but I'm a complete novice with wireless.

nupplenits · 11-01-2007 8:53pm

Couldnt find these in PCWorld galway yesterday... Do I have to ask or should they be on the shelves?

adox · 11-01-2007 9:51pm

nupplenits wrote:

Couldnt find these in PCWorld galway yesterday... Do I have to ask or should they be on the shelves?

There were a couple of empty display boxes in PC world in Blanchardstown where I bought mine today,although they were empty.I brought the empty box to an assistant and asked for him to get me one.

The display boxes took a bit of finding as they are promoting a couple of different routers in their sale which they had stacked up near the entrance.

Sponge Bob · 11-01-2007 11:33pm

In Galway they are at the very back and in a box like this

https://us.v-cdn.net/6034073/uploads/attachments/46516/36265.jpg

ADOX, you obviously got into the menus

for encryption avoid WEP which can be a pain to set up

set the encryption to WPA and give an 8 character (minimum is 8 characters IIRC) password (a key)

yoru laptop should detect wpa is enabled and ask for this key and bobs your uncle

the corpo · 12-01-2007 12:11am

i can't see if someone already said this, but can this physically connect by usb too, or just ethernet?

want to connect it by usb to a main pc (it's ethernet port is already being used to run a network) and just use the wireless for things like game consoles/laptops

adox · 12-01-2007 12:20am

Sponge Bob wrote:

I
ADOX, you obviously got into the menus

for encryption avoid WEP which can be a pain to set up

set the encryption to WPA and give an 8 character (minimum is 8 characters IIRC) password (a key)

yoru laptop should detect wpa is enabled and ask for this key and bobs your uncle

Thanks alot. 26 characters is quite alot to be entering.

Sponge Bob · 12-01-2007 12:33am

the corpo wrote:

want to connect it by usb to a main pc (it's ethernet port is already being used to run a network) and just use the wireless for things like game consoles/laptops

its a 4 port ethernet hub as well as wireless.

the corpo · 12-01-2007 12:42am

cool, i think i can make it work 8)

so, my next question, who;s going to get it for me

nah, are there any left in the dublin branches?

Sponge Bob · 12-01-2007 12:55am

currys and dixons also have it.

the corpo · 12-01-2007 1:15am

ooh, wonder if dixons in jervis have it! will ring em in the morning, thanks for the info!

the corpo · 12-01-2007 1:05pm

deadly. got one in dixons jervis st. they did try and get me signed up though

Qwertyboy · 12-01-2007 6:08pm

I just have a few questions to ask so I don't end up buying one and it not working.

1. My computer was made in 1999 so it has no ethernet port or no wireless capabilities (i think). Can it still work? If its any help I currently get my broadband from BT using a ZyXEL Prestige600 router connected through the PC's USB port.
2. Has anyone tried connecting their PSP, Wii, or DS to it?
3. Are you under any contract from buying the package?
4. And finally, Is there anything else I should know?

Any help would be greatly appreciated :cool:

Sponge Bob · 12-01-2007 6:13pm

circa 1999 usb is often capped at 1.2 Mbits , slower than the package in some cases.

if you have win 2000 or win xp on that old PC then buy a network card in maplin/pc world type places fo about €15 - €20 or find one/ ask for one on www.adverts.ie , a 3com would be good if on offer, say a common 3com 3c905 model as the operating system will pick it up straight away . even windows 98 may pick it up

frankly usb is pretty useless and buggy and old usb is worse so get a network card is my advice to you

there is another eircom box package in PC world which is for €19.99 and has a usb modem, I am not aware of the model or how to stop it dropping all the time . its in a smaller box than the €24.99 one . the usb modem has no wireless built in .

Qwertyboy · 12-01-2007 9:10pm

Thanks very much but i don't think im prepared to do that.Could someone please differentiate for me the difference between a modem, a router and an access point. Are they all the same things?

adox · 12-01-2007 11:46pm

Qwertyboy wrote:

2. Has anyone tried connecting their PSP, Wii, or DS to it?

I own a psp and a wii and both connected without a problem.

Do-more · 13-01-2007 12:40pm

Was in Harvey Norman Airside early this morning and picked one off the shelf. The only sales assistant in the dept. practically sprinted across the floor to head me off getting to the till with it, said I couldn't just buy the box, I'd have to sign up there and then, said "No thanks". PC World weren't open till 10am and I couldn't hang around so I'll have to try again another day...:(

thefinalstage · 13-01-2007 3:53pm

Do-more wrote:

Was in Harvey Norman Airside early this morning and picked one off the shelf. The only sales assistant in the dept. practically sprinted across the floor to head me off getting to the till with it, said I couldn't just buy the box, I'd have to sign up there and then, said "No thanks". PC World weren't open till 10am and I couldn't hang around so I'll have to try again another day...:(

No! Thats wrong! You call eircom using the number quoted on the box. Not sign up in store.

Do-more · 13-01-2007 4:59pm

thelastangryman wrote:

No! Thats wrong! You call eircom using the number quoted on the box. Not sign up in store.

Try tellin' him that! His name was David, your welcome to go in and slap him in the face for me!:D

BrendanD · 13-01-2007 5:06pm

Has anyone managed to get this working with smart broadband ?

Zwartsj · 13-01-2007 5:57pm

Got this working a treat with BT
just for in case some one ells have to set this up for BT
The Primary DNS Server is 192.111.39.1 and Secondary DNS Server 192.111.39.4
Because I had a bit of trouble getting it out of the dumb ass working for BT support

One other bonus is you get a free €10 calling card in the box

and the guy in Harvey Norman in Blanch was to happy to take a random telephone number that does not exist and that does not pass the test o and im not 100% sure if the addy I gave him is a real one either

i got my router so im happy
Thanks OP

degsie · 13-01-2007 6:57pm

Does anybody know if this can be used as a 'wireless bridge' to say, connect an old xbox to an existing wireless network?

thefinalstage · 13-01-2007 11:25pm

Do-more wrote:

Try tellin' him that! His name was David, your welcome to go in and slap him in the face for me!:D

I may just do that.

HungryJoey · 14-01-2007 10:45am

thelastangryman wrote:

No! Thats wrong! You call eircom using the number quoted on the box. Not sign up in store.

That is totally correct.

Hj

Bunnyhopper · 14-01-2007 3:57pm

Has anyone tried connecting one of these to an IBB Ripwave modem? If so, any success and how did you set it up? Thanks.

dingding · 14-01-2007 7:43pm

http://www.pcworld.ie/productDetails.aspx?productRID=1844&image=Wireless_Networking

Saw this on PCworld.ie for 49.99

Linksys 54 Modem Router & PCI card

thefinalstage · 15-01-2007 3:51pm

dingding wrote:

http://www.pcworld.ie/productDetails.aspx?productRID=1844&image=Wireless_Networking

Saw this on PCworld.ie for 49.99

Linksys 54 Modem Router & PCI card

The netopia has better wi-fi strength.

dgosul · 17-01-2007 12:00am

Got the eircom wireless router but cant get it working.Had a wi-less router b4 but it stopped working. I have satelite BB.When i set up the eircom router it says wireless signal Excellent but when i open a web page it come up connection problems.I turned off firewall & security settings to see if it helped but no avail.Any ideas?

adox · 17-01-2007 12:31am

I have mine runnning a while now and have decided to hook the ethernet cable back up to my mac as there were too many times when web pages were just left hanging with the wireless connection.This seems to have sorted out the problem.It was an intermittent problem,but very annoying and I can only think it was the wireless router.

Still using the wireless capabilities for my wii though.:)

ct5amr2ig1nfhp · 17-01-2007 1:02am

I've had said routher for a few days now. No real problems at all. Still a fair few on the shelf in PC World Airside over the weekend.

Minor note. The throughput on the wireless connection is not as good as I hoped. About 5-10% less than my Linksys router. Anyone else notice this?

ambrose :cool:

Sponge Bob · 17-01-2007 10:21am

It may need a firmware upgrade , these along with the manuals are here

http://www.netopia.com/support/hardware/2247w.html

Dublinstiofán · 17-01-2007 1:42pm

Sponge Bob wrote:

It may need a firmware upgrade , these along with the manuals are here

http://www.netopia.com/support/hardware/2247w.html

Thanks a million sponge Bob it works a treat.

Do-more · 17-01-2007 9:01pm

Finally got one in PC World Liffey Valley this morning, quite a few on the shelf (rather than just empty boxes) no questions asked!

Cheers Spongy!

pauly3 · 17-01-2007 11:14pm

Does anyone know how to wirelessly bridge 2 of these routers? I am trying to temporarily extend my broadband to a neighbour's house and I have only so far succeeded in extending with a cable between the routers. I cannot run a cable to the neighbour's! Please help!

Sponge Bob · 18-01-2007 12:38am

put both in AD HOC mode ( instead of the default which is INFRASTRUCTURE mode) , and they should talk to each other as a point to point network , you must then use cables at both ends to connect computers to them .

make sure you RTFM linked a few posts back

pauly3 · 18-01-2007 2:57am

I could find no 'Ad-Hoc' or 'Infrastructure' options in the router's configuration. The manual makes no mention of this either. Am I missing something here? From reading other forums it seems extending your wireless network with 2 routers can usually only be done by connecting the routers with cable on their LAN ports. The exceptions seem to be the Belkin routers and the Linksys WRT54G. Has anyone succeeded in using a second Netopia as an access point without using cat5 to connect it back to the first?

Sponge Bob · 18-01-2007 10:38am

latest firmware manual

http://www.netopia.com/support/hardware/SoftwareUserGuideV761-Clsc.pdf

see page 109 and wireless bridging but see note on Vlan just before it too.

You are right though. Normally a wireless device will work in infrastructure OR ad hoc mode , I can find no mention of the terminology in that manual .

You may have to create a single VLAN spanning both sides of the bridge with the DHCP server on the side that is connected to the net (your or the neighbour) , I would need to faff around witha pair of them to figure this one out.

You may not need the VLAN at all , simply bridging, but the one DHCP server would be most wise so disable dhcp on the netopia not connected to adsl and enable it on the one connected to adsl

pauly3 · 19-01-2007 12:11am

Thanks for the link Sponge Bob! It would seem that it is not possible to wirelessly bridge 2 Netopia routers for the purpose I had in mind. Pity. It would have been nice to bounce a broadband connection across the street and back again to a house which was not directly in range of mine. Kinda like a mesh network of sorts. I suppose there is other equipment to do this, but would have been nice with a 25 euro router!

digiman · 19-01-2007 12:48am

Bunnyhopper wrote:

Has anyone tried connecting one of these to an IBB Ripwave modem? If so, any success and how did you set it up? Thanks.

I would also like to know if this is possible?

cormie · 19-01-2007 1:32am

tried to get one in 3G, Dundrum today but they woudln't budge. Are the ONLY places you can get these Dixons, Currys, PC World and 3G? Anywhere southside with them in stock who don't ask questions?:o

thefinalstage · 19-01-2007 1:35am

cormie wrote:

tried to get one in 3G, Dundrum today but they woudln't budge. Are the ONLY places you can get these Dixons, Currys, PC World and 3G? Anywhere southside with them in stock who don't ask questions?:o

Just go to PC World in Liffey Valley. I got mine there no questions asked.

flanzer · 19-01-2007 12:10pm

Anyone get one of these in the last couple of days? Been ringing around but no one seems to have them

trap4 · 19-01-2007 12:21pm

flanzer wrote:

Anyone get one of these in the last couple of days? Been ringing around but no one seems to have them

Got one in Currys in Limerick last night. Asked in PC World first but they were out of them and kind enough to send me to Currys. Curry's said they needed my phone number to check if the line was compatible but I told them I'd already done the test online myself and it was. They didn't seem too happy about that but decided not to press the issue

Thanks Spongebob!

flanzer · 19-01-2007 12:26pm

trap4 wrote:

Got one in Currys in Limerick last night

Sorry, Meant to say Dublin area

hansov · 19-01-2007 12:29pm

As the lastangryman said....
I got mine in PCWorld Liffey Valley at 5 pm yesterday evening. At that stage there were about eight boxes left. No questions asked or answers given

mik_da_man · 19-01-2007 3:43pm

I just got one in Dixons in Pavillions Swords - they have Plenty left.
The guy made me do a line check before buying but no other probs.
I thought it might show up that I had Eircom BB already but it didn't

Well worth 24.99 IMO

Cheers OP

mik_da_man · 19-01-2007 7:16pm

Got just got this home - real simple to use if ya have Eircom BB already
no set up needed. Plug out old modem - plug in new one.

And If anyone is looking for one in Dublin Northside Harvey Norman in Airside have about 100:eek:

Mik

cyborg · 19-01-2007 9:09pm

BrendanD wrote:

Has anyone managed to get this working with smart broadband ?

smart BB anyone?

PS. still available in Currys Limerick -no questions asked!

Mailman · 22-01-2007 4:52pm

What is the range, signal stregnth like?

Are there any left in 3g or PC World in Blanch?

Netopia Wireless Hub/ADSL Routers for €24.99 in PCWorld

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