Re: [OT] Broadband Router Setup

["Tim Hawes" <timsyahoo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Do you/they have ZoneAlarm as a firewall?
My brother has the same router and experiences similar problems,
although things have been better recently (read=he hasn't asked me any
more questions...). We've tried both a netgear and belkin wifi cards
and it doesn't/didn't seem to make too much difference.

Do you have the latest firmware on the router?

There seemed to be quite a few other people with similar issues when
we googled it a while ago. As you found, on occasion his laptop
appears to connect to the router, but won't look "outside".

I'll see if he's found a solution and/or is still having problems.

Cheers,

Tim.



On 8/24/07, Mark Golledge <markgolledge@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I hope you might be able to give me some words of wisdom.
>
> Spent all day yesterday trying to setup my parents wireless router
> (Netgear DG834G). Have setup this at my own home so thought it
> couldn't be too hard - how wrong I was!!
>
> They've got broadband with Freeserve (now Orange, previously Wanadoo).
>
> There are 3 PCs in the house (one LAN connected to the router, the
> other two wireless).
>
> I've wanted to give them a fixed IP address so have gone to Network
> Connections / properties of the wireless connection and then typed the
> following (obviously different ip for each PC):
>
> 192.168.0.2
> 255.255.255.0
> Gateway 192.168.0.1
>
> Preferred DNS: 195.92.195.94
> Alternate DNS: 195.92.195.95
> (not sure about DNS as I can't find anything about these for Freeserve
> - just googled and found these).
>
> Since they are using Freeserve, I don't believe I can fix the external
> ip address so on the router settings I've had to set to 'get
> dynamically from isp' and dns is also 'get dynamically from isp'.
>
> Strange thing is is that the lan networked pc connects fine but the
> two wireless ones keep unconnecting from the internet (although they
> appear to be connected wirelessly).
>
> Any ideas?