Re: [OT] Broadband Router Setup

["Mark Golledge" <markgolledge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Guys,

Thanks so much for your help with this.

A couple of days and still the solution is now clearer. It turns out that
desktop PC (LAN connected to the router) also occasionally cuts out which
makes me think the problem is to do with the internet settings and not
wireless as suggested.

I've contacted Orange and it appears all the settings were fine although
they have suggested I use alternative DNS settings which I will try.

I want to give each PC it's own internal IP address i.e.
192.168.0.1(router),
192.168.0.2....
and have done this through Network Connection settings. However, you can't
specify this without including DNS settings - I may try 192.168.0.1 as the
preferred DNS and see what happens.

The other point about Zone Alarm is very helpful - they have Norton on the
desktop PC and Zone Alarm on the laptop so I'll have a look at the settings
and see what can be sorted.

Thanks again for your help - very much appreciated



Mark

On 24/08/07, Tim Hawes <timsyahoo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>   I've heard back from my brother, quoting:
> I am still having the issue but I think the problem is with the
> zonealarms security software. To summise the problem: it gets
> progressively more difficult to log on to the internet ie each time
> you log off then attempt to log back on it takes longer to log on and
> eventually refuses to log on. Turning off then rebooting zonealarms
> seems to reset everything, logging of then logging back on hours later
> is also not a problem. I think logging on and off in quick succession
> causes a problem with the firewall. Not sure if that makes sense.
> end quote
>
> His laptop runs Win2k, and I'm not sure which version of zonealarm he
has.
>
> HTH somewhat,
>
> Tim.
>
> On 8/24/07, Tim Hawes
<timsyahoo@xxxxxxx<timsyahoo%40googlemail.com>>
> wrote:
> > 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.
>
>



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