Asking for your help again, Badwayz

[yomama]

Badwayz, I went out and bought a router. Hubby said to get a real good one and then we wouldn't have to be buying another one anytime soon, so I got a Linksys G Wireless. Now I hope I can get everything going without having to call out a tech person to the house. I certainly wouldn't get the guy that we did have. Anyway, I see there are instructions inside the box and am wondering if they are pretty much self-explanatory or if I will run into some unforeseen problem. I hope you don't mind if l go ahead and ask as many as I can think of right away. Please bear with me; this will get long.

Okay, first of all, do I have to remove the old Addtron router from the computer (I know I have to physically disconnect the wires, but I mean find it on the computer somewhere and take it off of here like when you remove programs that you no longer want? If I have to remove it, I wouldn't know where to go to or what to do after I get there.

Under the first section "Connect the Broadband Router" in the instruction booklet that came with the new router it says, "Before you begin, make sure that you have the setup information for your specific type of Internet connection. The installation technician from your ISP should have left this information with you after installing your broadband connection. If not, you can call your ISP to request the settings." I have no idea what information they're talking about; the cable guy ran cable into the house, put a cd in, did some stuff and got us connected but didn't leave any information here. If I have no way of finding this information out myself by looking on the computer somewhere, then I would have to wait until Monday morning to ask them and I wouldn't even know what to ask them anyway. I had wanted to try to set this up this weekend while my daughter is here from college with her laptop so I can see that everything works (or if it would happen to not work...I don't even want to think about that last one). Okay, I understand all of those instructions in step 1, but I am questioning something now that the salesguy at Staples told me. He said to me to have the router configured on the computers before I plug the router adapter cord into an outlet. BUT here reading the booklet, in step 1 it says to plug everything in and turn it on and THEN in step 2 it has you configure the PCs and step 3 the routers, so it's backwards from what he had told me. Should I just go by the book and forget what that guy told me?

Now we go onto Step 2 "Configure the PCs"...Right away I don't know what it's saying: "For Windows 98, Millennium, and XP using the default interface, refer to the User Guide on the Setup CD-ROM or your Windows documentation." HUH?? I don't even know what a default interface is. Sorry, but I didn't grow up using computers, so probably the simplest of things to a 20 or 30 year old are over my head. Just like I don't know what they are trying to say in the very next sentence in Step 2: "The following instructions apply only to Windows 2000 or XP using the Classic Interface (in which the icons and menus look like previous Windows versions)." Well, I know that we have Windows XP, but don't ask me if we're default or classic interface. So now I am not sure whether to go by the Setup CD-Rom User Guide or it I should follow the instructions in the booklet under Step 2??? Badwayz, maybe you even have this same booklet at home and know exactly what I'm referring to. I wish I knew how the CD instructions differ from the booklet instructions. Oh, also under Step 2, am I understanding right that I have to put the CD in each computer and do the same instructions (whichever ones I'm supposed to go by) on each computer before moving onto step 3?

Steps A and B under Step 3 sound easy enough, but Step C has me scratching my head: "The web-based utility will appear with the Setup tab selected. If requested by your ISP (usually cable ISPs), complete the Host Name and Domain Name fields. Otherwise, leave them blank." Is this the part of the instructions that the very first Step in the book was referring to where it said about having the setup information for my type of internet connection? That's the part I don't know and don't know if I can look up that information on the computer somewhere. If not, I guess I'll have to call the cable company on Monday and ask them and hope they know what I'm talking about. Step D says: "For the Configuration Type setting, four connections types are offered through the dropdown menu. Each Setup screen and available features will differ depending on which connection type you select." I think I would probably select the first choice, Automatic Confiruration - DHCP. I don't know what DHCP means, but since it says to keep that default setting "if you are connecting through DHCP or a dynamic IP address from your ISP", I'm guessing that I would just use this first setting since we have a dynamic IP address (yes, I do know that much, believe it or not lol). Steps E, F, and G are pretty easy, but Step H has me stumped: "Wireless Network Name (SSID). The SSID is the network name shared among all points in a wireless network. The SSID must be identical for all points in the wireless network. It is case-sensitive and must not exceed 32 characters (use any of the characters of the keyboard). Make sure this setting is the same for all points in your wireless network. For added security, you should change the default SSID (linksys) to a unique name." I think that booklet assumes that I know what I'm doing...I don't! By "all points in the wireless network", they do mean every computer that's hooked up on the network, I guess. If these points all have to have the same name (I assume they are talking about each computer), and a person is setting up the network with everything connected and doing the router configuring just on the one computer, doesn't it make the SSID name the same on all of them? Or am I not understanding it right? If they are all set up with the same name when configuring the router, is there a way that this name can be changed later on (when not configuring the router). I wouldn't know what to select for Step I: Wireless Channel. Select the appropriate channel from the list provided to correspond with your network settings. All devices in your wireless network must be broadcast on the same channel in order to function correctly." First of all, I don't know what to select, and second of all, I'm wondering the same thing that I was in Step H...how can they be different if you're configuring the router using the one computer? I'm assuming it sets them all up the same then at the same time when you're doing the configuring. The reason I have this understanding is from the first thing that is in the booklet under Step 3: "These instructions will show you how to configure the router. You only need to configure the router once using any computer you have set up." In Step J Wireless SSID Broadcast, should I keep the default setting, Enable? Step K says, Change these settings as described here and click the Save Settings button to apply your changes." I'm not sure what to do here except to do that last part (Save Settings). Step L is easy enough..."Restart your computer" I can handle that one! lol Then in Step M, they give the URL to go to to test the setup (to register the router).

Okay, I'm going backwards here....I just noticed right above step 1 in the booklet, it says you can either use the Setup CD-ROM to configure the router OR you can use "this Quick installation guide". Maybe the CD will explain things better and then some of my above questions would be answered? Even so, I bet I'd still be confused about some things and still run into things where I wouldn't know what to do.

Now a big question just popped into my head and I hope I won't run into problems (well, I guess if anyone would maybe have some problems at some point, it would be my daughter). She is somehow connected to her college computer network, although I don't know what she had to do to her computer to get on it, like if she had to change any settings of anything on her computer when she started school in August. If she has her computer set to get on the college network, would anything I do when setting this up change anything on hers to make it unusable up at college? I think I remember that she did have to do something after she was up there so that she could get on their network, but I don't know what, and I honestly doubt if she would even remember. Although she's 19 and grew up using computers in school, getting into the technical aspect never interested her, so she doesn't actually know much more about them than I do. I'm just afraid that in setting the router up here and getting both our home pc and her laptop (wireless) working here, that I might unknowingly change something on her computer that's necessary for her to be on the college network. Knowing that that is a possibility (I'm just guessing though), I'm also wondering then if she will have to be changing things back and forth from when she's up there using her laptop to when she brings it home to use here. I just had a flashing thought that this might have been the problem all along (getting disconnected pretty often), instead it being the old router, that something got changed on her laptop after she was up at college that would affect her staying connected while she's here with it. Thing is, our computer gets disconnected too after awhile if we have them hooked up to the Addtron router. Also, seeing as how we've had this problem with the router before she even had her laptop, I still think the whole issue is this junky router ($200 worth of junk!).

I hope that after doing all this that it won't somehow affect the connection our daughter has up at college, as the students are all on a network there. Surely other people take their laptops back and forth between school and home, so it's either not a problem at all or one that can be worked around/changed.

Geez, your eyes are probably bugging out by now! I'm really starting to wish you computer wizards lived close to me and I could call you on the phone to ask you this stuff. It would sure be a heck of a lot easier than typing all this out, and now I feel kind of bad because to answer my questions you'll probably have to type a lot back as a reply. Of course, I suppose you could always choose not to answer me. In that case, I'd have two choices: return this router to the store within the next two weeks and get my money back OR try to find someone in the area who actually knows what he's doing. I'm just not sure how to go about this. I actually am kind of dreading even starting it for fear of messing up and then not having any connection at all. This is a rural area and I don't know of any other computer "geek" around here besides the one we had already had to the house who only seems to know what he's doing for the half. I trust you guys on here more than I do him. It's just that he's more convenient being that I can actually talk to him instead of typing; however, little good that does me if he doesn't know how to keep us connected either.

Thank you so much for the help you've given me so far and for taking the time to read this gigantic post. I'm sorry it got so long, but being that I'm so computer-dumb, I have so many questions.

[renegade600]

first of all, forget what the salesperson told you. Do what the booklet says. The rest is not the order you asked - sorry

As far as the booklet being self explainatory - yes. The areas where is ask for domain names and such, don't worry about it if the cable company did not give it to you. The mhz, use whichever one you feel like using, use the same on all wireless computers, however, if you have interference by other household items, like cordless phone, microwave, or even a neighbors wireless, try another one. the ssid, make up one and use the same ones for all computers - do not use the default one. Automatic configuration will work fine.

Whether the menu is classic or winxp, it will have/need the same info.

Be sure to have a blank floppy so you can copy the setup and copy to other computers.

As far as using the laptop at school and home, there will be some setup differences since they will be different networks. The school will help with their part.

[Big Jim]

Hi YoMama,

Really, what you are doing should be pretty simple.
Your daughter's laptop, is it Mac or PC and what OS is it?
The first part, getting your PC connected should be straightforward, if it is near the router, use ethernet cable from PC to router, I don't know what connections are on your cable box, but I'm assuming ethernet from wan port on router to cable box. Connect and plug in the power to the router, in the paperwork it should tell you how to get the router setup pages, basicaly on the PC open internet explorer and type in the url for the router, on the first setup page you should set it to automatic setup, all you need to input is your ISP username and pasword for connecting to your ISP. The rest can be taken one step at a time. You may Email me if you need to.

Jim.

[bAdWaYz]

Hiya Yo,
Glad to see you have a new router this should be the end of you're problems. First thing you want to do is take a moment to be happy :) Don't worry or stress to much you CAN do this trust me. Now at this point you should be happy feeling good and ready to start things up yay! First thing you wanted to know is do you have to uninstall the old router from you're computer. The good news is guess what...no you don't w00t w00t! Routers have whats called firmware inside that holds everything they need so there is nothing you have to install on the computer really. So just unplug the Addtron and have the hubby take it apart. Scoop all the guts out of it then make a nice flower pot or bird feeder :) The next thing you are gonna want to do is get the new router in place then before you power it on start to add any cat5 cable to it such as the one going from you're cable modem into the WAN port on the back of the router. Then the cat5 cable going from the back of you're computer to the back of the router into one of the LAN ports. Note there should be 5 LAN ports on the router 1-5, with 5 being an uplink port. If you don't plan to use a wired switch,hub, or such don't really worry about that just use port 1 to connect you're computer to the router. Now with all the cable conntected fire everything up. Plug the router in and turn on the computer. After the computer boots up here is where things get fun whoooo! I don't know if you are sure or not but if you're network card or "interface" is already set to obtain ip address auto and dns is set to auto you should be fine. You can change this later to actually share files between your're computer and others on you're network but for now or if you just want to share the connection and don't care about sharing files between computers you can leave it the settings that way. If they are not set to obtain things automatic like then we can change that. Just go to Start -> Control Panel -> Network And Internet Connections. Once you click on Network and internet connections you should get a window and at the bottom of that window there is a link to "Network Connections" the icon is a lil world with a plug. Thats what you want to pick. So after clicking on that then you should see a window with you're network connections listed. You want to find "Local Area Connection" that is likely you're cable connection. If you highlight that then right click it then go down to Properties and click that. Now you should see yet another window. There should be a list of things in that window, what you want to highlight is "Internet Protocol TCP/IP". Then click the "Properties" tab under that. This will bring up yet another window. In this window you will want to make sure that the little box next to "Obtain IP address automatically" is checked. Also in this same window make sure the little box next to "Obtain DNS automatically" is also checked. Click ok and thats it. Now you should be able to access the routers setup pages. You can do this by cranking up you're browser "IE" and entering the ip address of the router. Every linksys I have used had an ip address of 192.168.1.1 so just enter that into the address bar of Internet Explorer. You shold get a little pop up window asking for a login and password. The default is to leave the login blank and type admin into the password spot. This brings you to the setup pages for you're router. Most of the defaults will do fine but a few things you will want to change. For example you may wish to change the default password at some point as that is a security risk, but don't worry about that just yet as you don't want to lock yourself out before you can make changes. For now we can just go in order from top to bottom. The first page you see is the Setup page. The fist two blanks are the Host name and the Domain name. You are on cable and can leave those blank don't worry about em. Under that is the firmware ver. This just tells you what ver of firmware the router has on it now. Next is the LAN ip address or "device ip" this should be set as 192.168.1.1 already so don't worry about it. The subnet mask should be 255.255.255.0 so leave that as it is. The next section is the "Wireless" section. If you want you're daughter to access the network with her laptop wirelessly then check the box for "enable". Now the SSID is just the name that you want to be broadcasted for wireless users to see. So you can name it anything you like. For example if you're daughter has her laptop on and goes to view available wireless networks she would see a list of networks that are available for her to connect to. So if you make you're SSID "Mommanet" then she would see Mommanet and connect to that. Leave the channel to what its set at for now, and don't enable WEP just yet. The next section is the WAN section. Under "Type" just set that to "Obtain ip address automatically" Then click apply and a screen will come up saying these changes will be saves and you will be returned to the perv page in 8 sec. That covers the very basic setup. The other thing you want to make sure of before we close the browser for now is the DHCP settings. Just click the "DHCP" tab accross the top of the page. This will bring you to the setup page for dhcp. Now the first thing on this page is "DHCP Server". Put a check by "Enable" if its not already. It should be enable by default but hey lets be sure heheh. Next beside "Starting ip Address" should be the ip address fot he router. so if its not there put in 192.168.1.1 Next is "Number of DHCP users. For you're network just put 5 thats plenty. Don't worry about client lease time or dns just leave those alone and click apply. After the page reloads just close the browser and you are done for now. There are some settings we will change later but as I said just getting you're computer connected and on the net is our first goal. So do those things and post back if you run into trouble. Also I will private message you with some info about you're daughters computer and how it can connect to you;re network and hre schools with no changing of settins. I would post it here but as you can see this post is already huge lol. Cheers and good luck we are here for you mamma.

[yomama]

The areas where is ask for domain names and such, don't worry about it if the cable company did not give it to you..
If I can leave those areas blank, I wish the booklet would have said that. I hope I don't run into a problem if I leave them blank. I know that when I had called the cable company before explaining this problem we've been having with our router, they said they don't deal with that, just the cable, so I'm wondering just what all information I can ask them and have them give me answers.

The mhz, use whichever one you feel like using, use the same on all wireless computers, however, if you have interference by other household items, like cordless phone, microwave, or even a neighbors wireless, try another one. the ssid, make up one and use the same ones for all computers - do not use the default one. Automatic configuration will work fine.
I asked so many questions that I'm not sure what step this deals with, but I guess I'll figure that out when I get to it. So I take it that there are choices there and that I should just pick any one at all that I feel like doing at the time, huh? I know nothing about mhz.

Whether the menu is classic or winxp, it will have/need the same info.
I'm confused on that point. I guess if in doubt, pick the first choice like I usually do when I dont' know what I'm doing.

Be sure to have a blank floppy so you can copy the setup and copy to other computers.
I don't think that would do me any good anyway because my daughter says her laptop doesn't have a floppy drive. I thought that's dumb. I can't copy anything from here onto a CD and use it on her computer because we found out that her computer won't read CDs that we have made on this computer, so that's useless. Besides, I don't even know how to do that what you say about copying the setup.

I really appreciate you guys trying to help me, but I think I'll have to end up getting someone to come out to the house anyway (I hope I can find someone around this area who actually knows what he's doing. I know you're all trying to help me, but I think you just all know so much that you can't bring it down to a person on my level. When I say I know next to nothing about these things, I'm not exaggerating. I don't mean my comment as an insult; I just think that when people pass a certain point and know so many things about computers (and whatever), they start assuming that other people are the same and they just kind of lose the ability to talk down to people, and in my case I really need someone to explain on very simple levels. Since I apparently can't get that here (again, no insult, just stating the way things are), I'll have to go elsewhere, I think, i.e. just bite the bullet and pay someone to do it for me and hope they don't screw it up. I don't want to get yet another guy who doesn't know what he's doing and then have this router will worthless too. Thanks for trying to help.

As far as using the laptop at school and home, there will be some setup differences since they will be different networks. The school will help with their part.
I seriously have my doubts about that last part...her college doesn't impress me at all in a lot of things. You're more or less on your own, which is upsetting. I think they also assume that everyone is on some intermediate or advanced level and can figure things out for themselves. It's more or less, "Here's the direction; you do it." :upset:

[yomama]

Hi YoMama,

Really, what you are doing should be pretty simple.
Your daughter's laptop, is it Mac or PC and what OS is it?
The first part, getting your PC connected should be straightforward, if it is near the router, use ethernet cable from PC to router, I don't know what connections are on your cable box, but I'm assuming ethernet from wan port on router to cable box. Connect and plug in the power to the router, in the paperwork it should tell you how to get the router setup pages, basicaly on the PC open internet explorer and type in the url for the router, on the first setup page you should set it to automatic setup, all you need to input is your ISP username and pasword for connecting to your ISP. The rest can be taken one step at a time. You may Email me if you need to.

Jim.
Her computer is a PC and um, I think it's Windows NT? Geez, I'm not even sure, I'd have to ask her, but I don't think it's XP like this one at the house. Thanks for your reply. Due to time restrictions and the hour that it is, I can't type much. I just noticed I got another reply and have to say something quick to him. Thanks again.

[yomama]

Hiya Yo,
Glad to see you have a new router this should be the end of you're problems. First thing you want to do is take a moment to be happy :) Don't worry or stress to much you CAN do this trust me. Now at this point you should be happy feeling good and ready to start things up yay! First thing you wanted to know is do you have to uninstall the old router from you're computer. The good news is guess what...no you don't w00t w00t! Routers have whats called firmware inside that holds everything they need so there is nothing you have to install on the computer really. So just unplug the Addtron and have the hubby take it apart. Scoop all the guts out of it then make a nice flower pot or bird feeder :) The next thing you are gonna want to do is get the new router in place then before you power it on start to add any cat5 cable to it such as the one going from you're cable modem into the WAN port on the back of the router. Then the cat5 cable going from the back of you're computer to the back of the router into one of the LAN ports. Note there should be 5 LAN ports on the router 1-5, with 5 being an uplink port. If you don't plan to use a wired switch,hub, or such don't really worry about that just use port 1 to connect you're computer to the router. Now with all the cable conntected fire everything up. Plug the router in and turn on the computer. After the computer boots up here is where things get fun whoooo! I don't know if you are sure or not but if you're network card or "interface" is already set to obtain ip address auto and dns is set to auto you should be fine. You can change this later to actually share files between your're computer and others on you're network but for now or if you just want to share the connection and don't care about sharing files between computers you can leave it the settings that way. If they are not set to obtain things automatic like then we can change that. Just go to Start -> Control Panel -> Network And Internet Connections. Once you click on Network and internet connections you should get a window and at the bottom of that window there is a link to "Network Connections" the icon is a lil world with a plug. Thats what you want to pick. So after clicking on that then you should see a window with you're network connections listed. You want to find "Local Area Connection" that is likely you're cable connection. If you highlight that then right click it then go down to Properties and click that. Now you should see yet another window. There should be a list of things in that window, what you want to highlight is "Internet Protocol TCP/IP". Then click the "Properties" tab under that. This will bring up yet another window. In this window you will want to make sure that the little box next to "Obtain IP address automatically" is checked. Also in this same window make sure the little box next to "Obtain DNS automatically" is also checked. Click ok and thats it. Now you should be able to access the routers setup pages. You can do this by cranking up you're browser "IE" and entering the ip address of the router. Every linksys I have used had an ip address of 192.168.1.1 so just enter that into the address bar of Internet Explorer. You shold get a little pop up window asking for a login and password. The default is to leave the login blank and type admin into the password spot. This brings you to the setup pages for you're router. Most of the defaults will do fine but a few things you will want to change. For example you may wish to change the default password at some point as that is a security risk, but don't worry about that just yet as you don't want to lock yourself out before you can make changes. For now we can just go in order from top to bottom. The first page you see is the Setup page. The fist two blanks are the Host name and the Domain name. You are on cable and can leave those blank don't worry about em. Under that is the firmware ver. This just tells you what ver of firmware the router has on it now. Next is the LAN ip address or "device ip" this should be set as 192.168.1.1 already so don't worry about it. The subnet mask should be 255.255.255.0 so leave that as it is. The next section is the "Wireless" section. If you want you're daughter to access the network with her laptop wirelessly then check the box for "enable". Now the SSID is just the name that you want to be broadcasted for wireless users to see. So you can name it anything you like. For example if you're daughter has her laptop on and goes to view available wireless networks she would see a list of networks that are available for her to connect to. So if you make you're SSID "Mommanet" then she would see Mommanet and connect to that. Leave the channel to what its set at for now, and don't enable WEP just yet. The next section is the WAN section. Under "Type" just set that to "Obtain ip address automatically" Then click apply and a screen will come up saying these changes will be saves and you will be returned to the perv page in 8 sec. That covers the very basic setup. The other thing you want to make sure of before we close the browser for now is the DHCP settings. Just click the "DHCP" tab accross the top of the page. This will bring you to the setup page for dhcp. Now the first thing on this page is "DHCP Server". Put a check by "Enable" if its not already. It should be enable by default but hey lets be sure heheh. Next beside "Starting ip Address" should be the ip address fot he router. so if its not there put in 192.168.1.1 Next is "Number of DHCP users. For you're network just put 5 thats plenty. Don't worry about client lease time or dns just leave those alone and click apply. After the page reloads just close the browser and you are done for now. There are some settings we will change later but as I said just getting you're computer connected and on the net is our first goal. So do those things and post back if you run into trouble. Also I will private message you with some info about you're daughters computer and how it can connect to you;re network and hre schools with no changing of settins. I would post it here but as you can see this post is already huge lol. Cheers and good luck we are here for you mamma.
Oh my gosh, Badwayz, I'm so glad that you showed up and took all that time to answer me! Um, are you a guy or a girl or can't I ask that? I was assuming that mostly everyone on here besides me is a guy (it just seems to me that guys are usually the computer experts). You don't seem like a guy though by your answers...that's not an insult. :) I'm just glad that you dont' think I'm the biggest idiot that ever walked the face of the earth LOL and that you seem to be able to explain things so well. I just noticed after I posted to the other guy that you just posted and I didn't get to read your post yet, but I'd bet that it answers most if not all of my questions. You dont' know how much I appreciate your doing all that! I didn't get a chance to read it all yet and absorb it (I have ADD). Due to the time and us going to bed shortly, I will have to read over it tomorrow (well, I should say later today actually since it's after midnight here). I hope I can get to do this sometime this week, but now I'm wondering how much I can do since my daughter just went back up to college with her laptop. Maybe I should wait until the weekend when she has it here again? The only reason I was worried about getting the router in shortly after getting it is that Staples only allows two weeks to return something if you aren't satisfied with it, and I didn't want to wait say a month, find out I couldn't get it working and then have to eat that money also. As long as the problem was in that old router and nothing else and that I will be able to get this one to work sometime, then I won't worry about the time constraints I guess (try not to anyway). I'm sorry I can't type more right now in response to what you wrote and try it out right away, but I have to get off the computer. Also, there are so many things on my mind...had to take cat to vet on emergency visit (used charge card for that because he was in pain and I HAD to do something), I'm trying to plan an anniversary party for my parents, Christmas is fast approaching and I didn't even send any of my cards out yet (not that I send a whole lot though)....I could go on and on with all this, but I won't, as it would be boring, but anyway, I feel like I'm ready to pull my hair out or something. Thanks again sooooooo much for answering me! After I get a chance to read what you said, I will type a response either today or tomorrow (Tuesday) and respond and ask any other questions if I think I don't understand something yet. You're the best! :pleased:

[bAdWaYz]

You are most welcome Yo. I am a dude hehehe. I just try to answer posts in a way that the poster can best understand. If you were a bit more techie then my posts would be too, but knowing that you aren't I want to be able to help you by giving you what YOU need and not trying to make you something you don't want to be. Having said that you can go ahead and add the new router when you want to. The fact that you're daughter will be gone won't matter for now we can get her fixed up when she comes back. Just hook up the new router and get yourself online then worry about the kids lol. Hope you got some good rest and will be here for the next post.

[uripyores]

These posts especially from yomama give me fresh hope for the world. Its nice to see people being nice. [and funny] ;)

[Archangel122184]

I don't think I have seen a starting post that long in my entire life. I think I would have gotten caple tunnel if I had tried to answer... thankfully badawayz to one for the team :rotflmao:

One thing that wasn't well address in the responses was your daughters connection to the school. There are alot of ways she could go connect back to the school and I don't want to try and confuse you by throwing out a hundred acronyms and phrases that like 10 people in the world don't have to look up to know what they mean, so I'm going to try and make this as simple as possible at the risk of leaving a lot out.

From my perspective, I only foresee one problem that you might have with your router. It is not unheard of for a school to all what is called VPN (Virtual Priavte Network) access. This essentially will create a tunnel (you can think of it like an underwater car tunnel) throgh the internet to the school to allow direct and secure communications. If this is what your daughter uses, you are going to have to enable VPN tunneling in your pretty new router. You can find these options by clicking on the security option in the web interface then click on VPN in the mini bar that comes up. You can be whollistic and just enable all of the options, or you can try to figure out which protocal your daughter uses. There is no security risk to enabling all of them so that would be my recomendation.

[bAdWaYz]

This post is way old

[uripyores]

This post is way oldThe oldies are always the goodies.:rotflmao:

[vanari]

I didnt read everything you said but I remember asking :what kind of information can your ISP provide you that you need for setting up ur router.One thing that happened to me(did everything right but still had no Internet connection) was cloning the MAC address-BIG MISTAKE-and not asking my ISP for their MAC address which was totally different.Some ISP providers have different settings.Hope this might be of help in case you still got problems.