Re: Cable router working - bafflement

On 2008-09-30 14:59:58 +0100, black.hole@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Jon B) said:

Bella Jones <me9@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The Linksys WRT54GR arrived. I plugged it all in. Then went to the set
up page which has lots of queries about DCHP la la la. I get a few from
System Prefs, but am stumped by the rest and the router web page won't
let me do anything. I am about to give up and ask Here/Virgin MEdia/etc
when I launch Mail for the hell of it, and find emails coming in, and
Safari working fine, and the laptop connected also by ethernet to be
working fine too.

Is a cable connection simpler than ADSL through the phone line??

Yes.

You are still using the cable box to do the 'connect to the net' part of
the job, which is half of what an adsl box does, so it needs all the
user names & passwords, IP address etc. The Linksys just plugs in,
pretends to be a computer, and then shares it out to any other computers
connected to it via DCHP. All you should really need to do is set a WAP
password to keep the wifi secure.

The only possible complication I can think of is that the cable box might need a reboot to make it forget about the address it gave to your iMac, and issue a fresh address to your Linksys. ISTR the cable modem doesn't like to give out more than one address. (Which is why you're putting a router in.)

Cheers,

Chris

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