Re: Cable router working - bafflement

Jaimie Vandenbergh wrote:
On Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:06:47 +0100, me9@xxxxxxxxxxx (Bella Jones)
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??

Pretty similar - for an ADSL one you would have had to put the ISP
username+pass into the router, but I guess for this you don't. It's
mostly that domestic routers in general are set up to plug in and
work.

You really must set the Wifi to use WPA (or WPA2) encryption and give
it a password, though. Otherwise any local charlie could be using it.


Out of interest, is there any way to tell if anyone else *is* using it?

I transferred from BT to Virgin cable a couple of months ago. It's been fine although the speed is erratic. One difference to ADSL is that the wireless router lights flash near enough continuously, even when there's no computer (that I know of) connected.

Rob
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