Virgin wireless help!

dokko

dokko

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Hi there,

My laptop cannot find my wireless router supplied by Virgin.

Its a netgear wgr614 and when the laptop is hard wired it is fine, but take the cable out and let it find the wireless and it cannot detect it at all.

The laptop pretty much finds anything around it and never had a problem before.

Cheers.
 
It's on, name visible as well and i've even tried forcing my laptops mac address in to the router.

Wireless Router Settings

Enable Wireless Router Radio
Enable SSID Broadcast
Enable WMM

all ticked.
 
it's now finding it for a second or so, connecting then dropping it saying it cannot find it :(
 
Change the channel on your router, make sure if your adapter also has channel settings in device manager that its either set to auto or the same channel as your router
 
Hi,

Both are set at channel 11, it was the laptops default, so changed the router to it, the routers default is 6, i've tried both on that as well.

I've turned off the computers ability to power save and turn off the wireless, and set it to G only in both, or had it at default as well; i think i've tried just about everything, 4 hours of fiddling and nothing steady.
 
it also keeps coming up with '-- (192.168.1.2) is managing this device'

or 1.4 when i disconnect the hardwire and try the wireless 1st time when accessing the router.
 
The DHCP is useless on the router they supply, try setting a fixed IP address on your laptop. I have had to do this with 2 wireless computers, a wireless laptop and 2 iPhones and a PS3 :D
 
first give both of them a restart.
Then try changing the channel on the router by wiring it up, give both a restart again
Try disabling your wireless password, restart again.
etc etc until you have been through everything you can change on the router that relates to wireless..
 
Thesnipergecko said:
The DHCP is useless on the router they supply, try setting a fixed IP address on your laptop. I have had to do this with 2 wireless computers, a wireless laptop and 2 iPhones and a PS3 :D
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Hi could you expand on this, im not following to well, cheers.
 
x Darkchild said:
first give both of them a restart.
Then try changing the channel on the router by wiring it up, give both a restart again
Try disabling your wireless password, restart again.
etc etc until you have been through everything you can change on the router that relates to wireless..
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I've done all of these kind of things mate, its got to be a setting though.
 
dokko said:
Hi could you expand on this, im not following to well, cheers.
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He means go in the router settings and switch dhcp off, then change your settings on your wireless network card so they are not automatic..
For example change your static IP on the router to 192.168.1.1
then change your static ip on your wireless network card to
192.168.1.2

thats what he is referring to however ive never tried it wirelessly just wired..
 
x Darkchild said:
He means go in the router settings and switch dhcp off, then change your settings on your wireless network card so they are not automatic..
For example change your static IP on the router to 192.168.1.1
then change your static ip on your wireless network card to
192.168.1.2

thats what he is referring to however ive never tried it wirelessly just wired..
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Right got the router set, not sure where to set my wireless card? Cheers

I set the one in IPV4 (TCP/IPv4) is that the one?

Edit: Just to add when i search for the wireless networks the icon doesn't even spin anymore, you know the two arrows? Then the spinning circles comes up, well that stopped working about an hour ago.
 
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Well the bloody thing can see it, connect to it, hold connection...when the cable is also plugged in; remove it and back to no connection.

What a complete faff on, i really don't know why i bother with computers , honestly.
 
Managed to get another laptop down, it has XP on it rather than vista and that one couldn't even find the network (like mine at the start)
 
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