Help with Netgear + Cable setup

longshanks · 19 Nov 2007 at 13:10

Hi

My brother has just had Virgin installed in his house. The problem is that the Cable modem is downstairs in the living room but his pc is upstairs!! He told the fitters to put the cable downstairs as he was buying a Router.

Well, he has just bought a Nertgear Cable router and a PCI Wireless adapter.

Can he setup the router wirelessly by installing the wireless adapter first in his PC or does he need to take his PC downstairs and do it through an Ethernet cable?

Gaz1988 · 19 Nov 2007 at 13:24

err

is that the Cable modem is downstairs in the living room

He told the fitters to put the cable downstairs

sooooo ? where is it lol

Subby · 19 Nov 2007 at 13:38

It's always best to setup a wireless router from a wired connection. He could always take the new router upstairs to the pc and configure it there. The only thing it won't receive is the settings from VM. He should also install the wireless PCI card at the same time and make sure it's talking to the wireless router. When the wireless is all sorted and locked down with WPA, take the router back downstairs and plug it into the cable modem. Once the wireless router has synced with the cable modem the PC should be able to see the router via the wireless and get on the net.

longshanks · 19 Nov 2007 at 14:20

Subby said:
It's always best to setup a wireless router from a wired connection. He could always take the new router upstairs to the pc and configure it there. The only thing it won't receive is the settings from VM. He should also install the wireless PCI card at the same time and make sure it's talking to the wireless router. When the wireless is all sorted and locked down with WPA, take the router back downstairs and plug it into the cable modem. Once the wireless router has synced with the cable modem the PC should be able to see the router via the wireless and get on the net.

Thanks. Will try that first

J.B · 19 Nov 2007 at 14:23

It can be done wirelessly although admitidly not as easy. could always buy a long network cable.

longshanks · 19 Nov 2007 at 15:32

Is it hard to setup wirelessly then? A lot of hassle?

merlin2k6 · 19 Nov 2007 at 15:34

You will have to enable the wireless AP in the router first via an ethernet cable, i beleive its not enabled as standard on netgears cable variety, unlike there adsl routers which it is. After that its pretty easy to setup wirelessly.

longshanks · 19 Nov 2007 at 15:47

So, i can connect the router to the pc via the ethernet cable then once i have gone into the Wireless section of it and activated it i can then put the PCI wireless adapter in the pc, take the router back downstairs and then carry on configuring it upstairs via the PC wireless adapter?

Sp00n · 19 Nov 2007 at 17:06

Most routers come with the wireless enabled, all be it unsecured.

neodude · 19 Nov 2007 at 18:53

I've never had an ethernet cable plugged into my Netgear router, ever.

longshanks · 19 Nov 2007 at 20:29

neoduder said:
I've never had an ethernet cable plugged into my Netgear router, ever.

Even to set it up?

neodude · 19 Nov 2007 at 21:24

longshanks said:
Even to set it up?

Nope. Set it up entirely via wireless.

longshanks · 19 Nov 2007 at 21:54

neoduder said:
Nope. Set it up entirely via wireless.

Did you find that easy to do? No problems.

neodude · 19 Nov 2007 at 23:03

No problems at all.

Connected straight away.
Added my MAC to the access list and then turned on MAC filtering.
Created WPA2 Passphrase & applied. Got disconnected.
Filled in WPA2 Passphrase on the PC. Reconnected.
Sorted.

That was with a Netgear DG834GT

As stated above though you might want to check that the Cable models have Wireless eneabled as default. Even if they don't it would just be case of connecting the router briefly to enable the wireless.

longshanks · 19 Nov 2007 at 23:15

Thanks guys. I will try it out tomorrow.