Posted on 11/26/2008 5:08:04 PM PST by Perdogg
My mom has AOL. I had to rig the computer to do dailup to post this. She also has a wireless broadband. However, I cannot bridge the two together to get internet service over the wireless broadband.
When I turn on the computer I am getting internet connection, but I cannot log onto the internet.
She has a Netgear wireless router with a motorola cable modem. She has windows XP.
Can anyone help?
Thank you!
btw, I wasn't bitten by a moose and I am logged on.
It sounds like you need an assigned IP address for your router and we have never had AOL, so don’t know if that is causing your problem.
You need to set your router as a dhcp. server, my husband says.
There may be a DNS proxy in there somewhere that's gone wobbly.
Happy Thanksgiving to you.
I also use My Wifi Zone to block intruders instead of going thru the trouble of encrypting my network.
I’m using the basic network magic, never saw the network lock. What I like about network magic is that it keeps me connected.
You’ll need to change some settings and the only way that I know offhand how to do this is to call tech support. It’s a pain but I had the same problem with the Netgear router I use. But that was two years ago and it works fine. I don’t think you will have a problem with wireless however but I could be wrong. When I logged on with my laptop it connected right away. The two desktops required a change of settings.
NOT GUILTY!!!
Router should have MAC Clone enabled and to have the same MAC as you see on your PC connected to the cable modem when you execute ipconfig.
Mine doesn’t. The cable company needs to know the MAC on my cable modem so that my neighbor who also has cable TV, but doesn’t pay for cable internet doesn’t just hook up his own cable modem and get it for free. The router is set up to gets its cableside IP address, DNS, gateway, etc, from the cable modem, and acts as a DHCP server to the PC’s on the network (different subnet from the router-modem one).
With all due respect, and recognizing that in all such things, everyone's mileage may vary.... I would have given exactly the reverse advice.
Both as an individual, and as chief sys-admin at my company, I've worked with around 100 consumer and "pro-sumer" level (not quite industrial-strength) products from each of the two manufacturers. My experience with the Netgear units has been consistently better than with the Linksys units.
The particular characteristics I found differed were stability and robustness under high load. Feature sets were generally equivalent, and all acted okay under light load. But under high load, the Netgears stayed up noticeably better than the Linksys.
To be honest, the really good gear is the stuff branded "Cisco" (all my company's firewalls are Cisco). The purchase of Linksys by Cisco a few years ago did not, in my view, improve the Linksys product line appreciably.
But my experience is my experience, not yours, and clearly you've had a different experience. So I don't wish to argue, only to offer additional comment.
Ooooh, sexy. It is to computer porn as Helen Thomas is to regular porn. GUILTY!
Hey! How did you get a picture of my Mom!
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