setting up wireless - Saxperience

marcusd · 6th October 2010, 17:21

ok called up talk talk help line she changed all my settings then hung up when i said nothing was working. so....

how the f*%k do i set up a wireless router?
it runs off my main pc when its off to run wireless to laptop and ethernet cable to xbox

advise please

haz_pro · 6th October 2010, 17:41

How does it run off your computer when its off?

You got a link to the router you have fella?

marcusd · 6th October 2010, 18:05

no its a unbranded router.
the comp doc i used had it running off main comp when it was tunred off so i didn;t have to run 2 comps just to use one laptop if that makes sense.
really shit at this stuff and have basic knoledge of this shit

Jamb0 · 6th October 2010, 18:21

is it your modem aswell?

marcusd · 6th October 2010, 18:23

i think so? all i know is main comp is perm connected to internet weather on or off, which then goes to router and sends out all other crap

0rang3peel · 6th October 2010, 23:16

What router is it, & do you use a wireless program or are you using windows wireless manager? I fix hundreds of wireless problems everyday only time it can be a bastard is on windows vista when it connects local only

marcusd · 7th October 2010, 09:55

Quote:

Originally Posted by 0rang3peel

What router is it, & do you use a wireless program or are you using windows wireless manager? I fix hundreds of wireless problems everyday only time it can be a bastard is on windows vista when it connects local only

unbranded wireless router.
when i rung tiscali/talk talk she made me change setting which since then hasn;t worked.
i;ve since fiddled more with settings on router menu and can get the wireless connection but can;t secure it and says limited or no connectivity so basically doesn;t work. but still works on xbox but not on main comp either

Futurism · 11th October 2010, 03:49

You running windows 7?

You running the xbox wirelessly or through a cable?

You got any security on your wireless connection? - It will throw up this message if your inputting the code wrong, its case sensitive is where most people make mistakes.

It might be worth while resetting your router and starting again if the woman at talk talk has been making you changeloads of settings.

There should be a small reset button somewhere press that, then you will have to plug 1 pc in via cable and then set up the router, you should have had an installation cd or some log in details for the router so you can input your settings.

If your still Stuck PM me and ill try my best to help more

marcusd · 11th October 2010, 10:07

i ended up resetting router.
xbox is off ethernet cable.
can get wireless to send now but on laptop its says no or low connectivity.
won;t allow me to put a password on the wireless signal refuses to alow it.
now managed to get internet to work with xbox and limited on main pc, limited as in too slow for nte but can recieve a few emails at a time.

can;t get my head round this at all read thro the cd user manual but it doesn;t really help. i do remember the comp guy who originally installed it had a few problems with it somewhere. no i;m totally fucked with it

Noddy · 11th October 2010, 10:40

IIRC Talk Talk use Belkin or D-Link routers but as said they don't have obvious branding on them (Ex had Talk Talk) If you look on the back / bottom of the router, somewhere there will be a model number of some sort. What is it?

Drop me a PM buddy as i have an idea

marcusd · 11th October 2010, 10:45

no its a def unbranded router that the comp doc brought for me at time cos wireless wasn;t that popular at time more or less just out.
only thing on box is wireless adsl+gateway model wbr-t2

i have gone into settings cleared all original setting that talk talk told me to change and started a fresh to the things i can do. but won;t let me add password and won;t run main comps net or wireless to laptop. but..... if its unsecured i can get full signal and use net on laptop

Noddy · 11th October 2010, 11:09

Ok, know i know that its made by Plexus. Having a read up on it, it does seem that there are known problems with this router being slow, difficult to setup and then unreliable once going.

I take it that it looks like this:

marcusd · 11th October 2010, 11:26

yea looks like that. its worked for years without fault. till last month but phoned talk talk who said it was fault on line, give it 2 days then phoned bk and sid no wasn't fault it was your router you need to change settings which what buggered it all

Noddy · 11th October 2010, 11:37

Typical of ISP's tbh, they don't want to put the blame on their network. I had the exact same problems with BT who kept trying to blame me for the connection drop-outs i was having. Eventually got a mate round who's a BT engineer and it turned out to be a fault in the box at the end of the road!

Have a look in the menus for an option to update the firmware on the router. After a bit of reading this tended to help others out. You may need to download the new one to your PC first before updating the router

marcusd · 11th October 2010, 11:40

how the hell do i do that? in the actual menu part on router(as in typing the 198.0..whatever it is) doesn't look like theres an updat part. plus can't get a connection o to download it?

marcusd · 11th October 2010, 11:52

haha thanks to your info found the website and a download, and also a talk talk setting set up, so that might help cheers. any more info u have please forward on every little helps

Noddy · 11th October 2010, 11:59

no worries pal, if it wasn't for the fact I'm stuck in bed atm, I'd offer to come down and sort it as you're not exactly a million miles away from me. I work with networks and computers most of the time when i'm not at work as a bit of work on the side

(if that makes sense

)

Fell free to throw up a question. If i don't know the answer straight away, i'll go and find it out!

marcusd · 11th October 2010, 12:00

yea it does. bear u in mind if this still don;t work. downloaded update, gonna aply it see that happens found a few extra settings i'll ty add somewhere. i will be back

Noddy · 11th October 2010, 12:02

lol ok pal no worries.

marcusd · 11th October 2010, 12:36

ok i now have internet running fine on main comp xbox works fine too. can get wireless to laptop but can;t secure it.

on security menu says network authentication- drop down menu
WEP encryption if i enble this gets to

encryption strength- 64 bit or 128 bit
current network key 1-4
network key 1-4 menus what ever i type into boxes says
key ******* is invalid please enter 5 ascii characters or 10 hexadecimal digits for 64 bit wep encryption key

how do i secure network