Seting Up Wireless Interenet...

[Presumin Ed]

Hi, folks.

I'm trying to set up a wireless connection with my PC, which is running Windows XP.

My internet connection is 8 meg dial-up broadband. It's hooked upto a Netgear wireless broadband router which is successfully transmitting and receiving with the Netgear wireless USB adapter plugged into my PC.

However, whenever I try to access the internet it tells me that it can't find my internet connection.

One thing I do know is that when I try to set up a new connection through Control Panel, the only modems I'm getting are the USB ASDL and the built in 56k dial up - no wireless gear.

I'm completely dumb when it comes to this sort of thing so I've no idea where I'm going wrong.

Any thoughts?

Ed

[Presumin Ed]

When I try to connect to the internet this is what I get;

"No Internet Connection Detected
Please Check the Connections to the Internet WAN Port and Cable/DSL Modem."

It seems I can ping my default gateway just fine.

When I run cmd /k ipconfig I get;


Windows IP Configuration


PPP adapter Bulldog:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 84.9.193.55
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.255
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 84.9.193.55

Ethernet adapter Wireless Network Connection 2:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.2
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : fe80::214:6cff:feb2:632b%7
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1

Tunnel adapter 6to4 Tunneling Pseudo-Interface:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 2002:5409:c137::5409:c137
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :

Tunnel adapter Automatic Tunneling Pseudo-Interface:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : fe80::5efe:192.168.0.2%2
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :

Tunnel adapter Automatic Tunneling Pseudo-Interface:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : fe80::5efe:84.9.193.55%2
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :

C:\Documents and Settings\Ed>



Then I Ping my gateway I get;



Pinging 192.168.0.2 with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 192.168.0.2: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=48
Reply from 192.168.0.2: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=48
Reply from 192.168.0.2: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=48
Reply from 192.168.0.2: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=48

Ping statistics for 192.168.0.2:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms

C:\Documents and Settings\Ed>


Makes no sense to me!

Ed

[blademaster591]

can the computer detect the netgear wireless adapter?

[blademaster591]

yes, it is, i missed that the first time around. anyway, try going into control panel, click network and internet connections, then click the wireless network setup wizard.

[G_Dem]

Then I Ping my gateway I get;



Pinging 192.168.0.2 with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 192.168.0.2: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=48
Reply from 192.168.0.2: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=48
Reply from 192.168.0.2: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=48
Reply from 192.168.0.2: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=48

Ping statistics for 192.168.0.2:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms

C:\Documents and Settings\Ed>


Makes no sense to me!

You are pinging your IP not the default gateway. Ping 192.168.0.1 instead and post the results.

[Presumin Ed]

Okay, here we go;


Pinging 192.168.0.1 with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 192.168.0.1: bytes=32 time=3ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.0.1: bytes=32 time=3ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.0.1: bytes=32 time=3ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.0.1: bytes=32 time=2ms TTL=64

Ping statistics for 192.168.0.1:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 2ms, Maximum = 3ms, Average = 2ms

C:\Documents and Settings\Ed>


blademaster591, I don't get a wireless network set up wizard in Network Connections.

Ed

[XeroSKill]

you are correctly connected to the router. now the router needs to connect to the internet. now first you have to go to the netgear router's settings. open up your browser and go to http://192.168.0.1 and put int he username and password for the router. (i forget the default for netgear i think its username administrator with no password) anyways, in there it should have somewhere showing your dns assigned ip address. make sure that is assigned.

(sorry for not knowing specifics in where to go since i dont own a netgear router personally)

also, i ahve found that unplugging the modem then replugging sometimes solves internet connectivity issues.

[G_Dem]

Also if you have any firewalls like zone alarm running, disable it to check to see if thats the problem.

[bAdWaYz]

One more thing to throw in here. When you log into the router make sure its setup for a dsl connection. Unlinke cable it can't just be "obtain an ip auto dhcp" for dsl its gonna be "PPPOE" or in some cases "PPPoA" depending on your provider.

[Presumin Ed]

I think the main problem I'm having is that I thought the netgear router had a built in broadband modem, which apparently it doesn't. My broadband modem is only USB, so I need a USB/ethernet adapter to connect it to the router (I think!).

I'll sort this out and get back to you...

Ed