Wireless: What am I doing wrong

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Ok, at my girlfriends house, she has internet via a cable modem. I've got an netgear wireless adsl router which I've plugged into the cable modem via ethernet, in order to be able to use the wireless in the house, but cant really seem to get it working using a dynamic (auto assigned) IP. Furthermore, once the wireless is connected (using static internal ip), I can't get net connectivity, but it works using a physical ethernet cable to the router.

Admittedly I tried this at 2am, but what am I doing wrong? :)
 
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You will need to set a default gateway on the ADSL router to that of the modem and possibly the DNS settings.

Is DHCP enabled? NAT?
 
She has cable, I'm using a netgear router for the wireless, that just happens to have an adsl modem in it.

Edit, its not Cable Plus, its "she has a cable connection [plus] modem", sorry. Just a default ntl cable modem they gave her.

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---Cable Internet Connection---> Cable Modem---Ethernet Cable--->Netgear (Router with adsl modem (not used))---Wireless--->Laptop
 
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Trifid said:
You will need to set a default gateway on the ADSL router to that of the modem and possibly the DNS settings.

Is DHCP enabled? NAT?
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I tried DHCP on/off to no avail, will have a butchers at the gateway on the router, cheers. Any idea why it would work on Wired and not Wireless though?
 
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platypus said:
She has cable, I'm using a netgear router for the wireless, that just happens to have an adsl modem in it.

Edit, its not Cable Plus, its "she has a cable connection [plus] modem", sorry. Just a default ntl cable modem they gave her.
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Surely the standard NTL cable modem is just that - a cable modem. You need a router do do NAT, or it won't work.
 
platypus said:
Aye, NAT is enabled.
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It could well be - it won't make the blindest bit of difference.

A router does it's routing between the LAN interface(s) and the WAN interface. Your netgear router's WAN interface is hardwired to an onboard ADSL modem. You've plugged your cable modem into the LAN interface, so the router is now not doing any routing at all. This is why it doesn't work.

You need a router with an ethernet WAN port.
 
csmager said:
It could well be - it won't make the blindest bit of difference.

A router does it's routing between the LAN interface(s) and the WAN interface. Your netgear router's WAN interface is hardwired to an onboard ADSL modem. You've plugged your cable modem into the LAN interface, so the router is now not doing any routing at all. This is why it doesn't work.

You need a router with an ethernet WAN port.
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But it works with the wired connection?
 
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But it works with the wired connection?
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Only one connection, per chance?

The router has it's own address, so it's not going to pick up the modem's DHCP. The one PC you connected to it just picks up the IP as if it's the only thing connected to the modem. Add another PC and it won't work - the router might as well not be there.
 
If it was anything like Blueyonder, they sent customers out a Wireless router, but it tailored to one computer only! I dont know if NTL did the same thing, plus do you know if NTL supplied the wirless router or was it bought elsewhere?
 
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If it was anything like Blueyonder, they sent customers out a Wireless router, but it tailored to one computer only! I dont know if NTL did the same thing, plus do you know if NTL supplied the wirless router or was it bought elsewhere?
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judging by the fact he using an ADSL router

it iwll be one they've supplied themselves.
 
Aye it is a router I've got and dont happen to use so thought Id try getting the wireless to work at the girlfriends house.
 
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