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Belkin wireless G+ usb adapter

  • 08-05-2008 04:46PM
    #1
    katieboo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 112 ✭✭


    I have just purchased a Belkin wireless G+ usb adapter and try as i might i just cannot get it to work. I have installed the software as per the instructions. I currently have Chorus as my broadband provider and it is working fine when plugged directly to my laptop but no way in hell can i get it to pick up any signal. I have brought the laptop into the room where the Chorus modem is and still nothing.

    Would be grateful if anyone had any ideas on what i might be doing wrong. I'm sure it is probably something very simple but i am not that techy when it comes to these things. All i want to do is to be able to use it in the next room.


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  • #2
    Spear
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Help & Feedback Category Moderators Posts: 26,945 CMod ✭✭✭✭Spear


    katieboo wrote: »
    I have just purchased a Belkin wireless G+ usb adapter and try as i might i just cannot get it to work. I have installed the software as per the instructions. I currently have Chorus as my broadband provider and it is working fine when plugged directly to my laptop but no way in hell can i get it to pick up any signal. I have brought the laptop into the room where the Chorus modem is and still nothing.

    Would be grateful if anyone had any ideas on what i might be doing wrong. I'm sure it is probably something very simple but i am not that techy when it comes to these things. All i want to do is to be able to use it in the next room.

    The obvious but needed question, are you sure the modem has wireless capabilities?


  • #3
    katieboo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 112 ✭✭katieboo


    Good question. The model is a Motorola SB5101 E. I checked the spec on tinternet there and it doesn't say anything. The thing is though that when we got the adapter first we did initially get a signal so I suppose it has to be.


  • #4
    Spear
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Help & Feedback Category Moderators Posts: 26,945 CMod ✭✭✭✭Spear


    katieboo wrote: »
    Good question. The model is a Motorola SB5101 E. I checked the spec on tinternet there and it doesn't say anything. The thing is though that when we got the adapter first we did initially get a signal so I suppose it has to be.

    That modem doesn't have wifi support, it's a cable modem only. You'll need a wireless router then. The signal you picked up could have been any number of other networks locally.


  • #5
    katieboo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 112 ✭✭katieboo


    Thanks Spear. You would think the eejit down in Harvey Normans would have advised us of this - we did tell him it was Chorus broadband that we had.


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