Newbie struggling with wireless internet.

rulocal · 13 Sep 2007 at 11:27

I use aol as my ISP and recently picked up a second hand Netgear DG834G router and Asus wireless PCI card.

I have installed the card and thought I had connected to the internet. It all seemed to easy. The thing was, though,that my internet speed had slowed drastically, so I thought I might have connected to another network, by mistake. This seemed the likely scenario when I unblugged the aerial from the router and the signal did not degrade at all. I then found another SSID that degraded significantly when I unplugged my aerial and went to 100% if I moved the router next to my PC. The problem is I cannot connect to the internet on this SSID. Can anyone help me out or point me to a good online resource as the netgear manual is not helping out.

Cheers.

Rhys · 13 Sep 2007 at 13:53

You should set your SSID to something you recognise. Then make sure you connect to that.

rulocal · 13 Sep 2007 at 14:08

How do I change the SSID? I am going into the wireless card and clicking change SSID. I then type something in and then "apply" but it just clears the SSID I just typed in.

I am so confused generally. :confused:

. When I search for all wireless networks there are several Sky ones, one called default and one called CHW. I assumed the default one would be mine but as I mentioned above by moving around the router and monitoring the wireless connection quality it appears CHW is mine. I can connect to "default" without having to seemingly to anything special but just can't connect at all to CHW. I can't even bring myself to think about encryption. :eek:

doozer · 13 Sep 2007 at 14:38

Have you accessed you router via the admin pages from 192.168.0.1 at all yet

You are best connecting via a wired connection to the router at first until everything is setup correctly.

The ssid should be under the wireless settings section and you can name it what you want so you know your connecting to the correct one.

rulocal · 13 Sep 2007 at 15:14

doozer said:
Have you accessed you router via the admin pages from 192.168.0.1 at all yet

You are best connecting via a wired connection to the router at first until everything is setup correctly.

The ssid should be under the wireless settings section and you can name it what you want so you know your connecting to the correct one.

Thanks. I will try this, although I am not quite sure how.

misterPK · 13 Sep 2007 at 16:11

First of all, you'll need to make sure that you're not connected to a wireless network, usually done by disabling the wireless card.

Next, hopefully your router came with an old fasioned network cable. Use this to connect your computer directly to the router.

Open your internet browser and where you'd type in an internet address, type 192.168.0.1 and the admin pages should appear. You may need to enter a password, which should be in the manual. From there you can set all the details for your router, so you can give it a name you'll recognise, enter your internet details so it can connect and most importantly set the security details so no-one can do what you've accidentally done and access your network.

You should then be able to disconnect the network cable and connect through your wireless card using the settings you've just put on the router.

Hope that helps.

PK!

rulocal · 14 Sep 2007 at 07:03

misterPK said:
First of all, you'll need to make sure that you're not connected to a wireless network, usually done by disabling the wireless card.

Next, hopefully your router came with an old fasioned network cable. Use this to connect your computer directly to the router.

Open your internet browser and where you'd type in an internet address, type 192.168.0.1 and the admin pages should appear. You may need to enter a password, which should be in the manual. From there you can set all the details for your router, so you can give it a name you'll recognise, enter your internet details so it can connect and most importantly set the security details so no-one can do what you've accidentally done and access your network.

You should then be able to disconnect the network cable and connect through your wireless card using the settings you've just put on the router.

Hope that helps.

PK!

That has done the trick. Thanks very much for your help.