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seventhyearfalling asked:

Hi!
I’m trying to connect my wireless linksys USB adapter (wusb54g- speedbooster model) to my belkin router. It will connect but tends to disconnect pretty quick once I start surfing the net or downloading. I’m thinking that the settings on my linksys may be different than on my router. How should I set my linksys adapter (fragmentation threshhold, channel, ect) to match the default settings on a belkin router? Any suggestions on how to keep it connected? Thanks!

Question posted courtesy of: Brian

teh_sux0rz asked:

I have a linksys WRT54G router, and i used to have a 2Wire. I want to replace the 2Wire because it doesnt have enough signal strength from where it is to where my computer is. So i got the linksys router, and ran the setup wizard. It told me to connect all the cords and stuff, so i connected the internet cable that was previously in the 2Wire into the linksys. i connected the blue ethernet cord from the linksys into my computer. i plugged the power cord in. the power light, the wlan light, and the number 1 lights are on. but not the internet light. the setup keeps saying that my pc isnt even connected to the router. I have no idea what to do! Everything is connected. but that internet light isnt on…

Question posted courtesy of: Angela

Pete asked:

So I wish to set up a wireless network to enable both a PS3 (which I have) and a PVR (which I am about to purchase) to stream media from my laptop.

I am a massive noob in this area so any help would be greatly appreciated.

This is the equipment I have:

Laptop, which has neither internal wireless or Bluetooth capabilities. It does have an Ethernet connection and it also has a connection which has the words “Expansion Port 2″ written near it (if that means anything re what I am trying to achieve.)

Netgear 4 port wireless router connected wirelessly to my laptop through a 54 Mbps wireless pc card (wg511 v2)

Windows XP Home edition.

Ps3 with wireless and Bluetooth capabilities. I already have this connected to the internet through the wireless router. (just not the media server thingy.)

Windows Media Player 11 (apparently this is used in regards the PS3 media sharing)

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I will tell you what I have attempted so far and you can chuckle out loud for a while then see if you can help me out
I clicked on control panel>wireless network setup wizard>ok>set up a new wireless network.

I give the new network a name and leave it checked on “automatically assign a network key”

Now it asks how I want to set up my network.

It recommends using a USB flash drive which I tried first of all and it put some kind of setup program on there. It then said to put the drive in the wireless access point, then the other computer (which I assume can also be the PS3) and then finally back into the host computer.

The first hurdle I came across was the fact that the wireless router I have does not have a USB port!

At this point I am starting to wonder whether I have all of the required equipment (perhaps some sort of networking specific hardware is missing?)

Still that is what you are all for!

I decided to come at this from a different angle so I go back to where it recommends using the USB drive to continue with the network setup.

There is another option which says “set up a network manually.”

When I choose this option it says “Depending on the wireless software running on this computer, the wireless network setup wizard might not work.”

It then would not allow me to go any further.

This confuses me momentarily till I try another option and it makes more sense…

I go to control panel>network connections>new connection wizard

Near the bottom of this next page it has a hyper link to “view wireless networks in range.”

When I click on this it goes to a page which says “choose a wireless connection.”

But in the panel it says “windows cannot configure this wireless connection. If you have enabled another program to configure this wireless connection, use that software. If you want to use windows to configure this wireless connection click “change advanced settings,” click the wireless connections tab then select the check box labeled “use windows to configure my wireless network settings.”

When I do exactly this and then click on “view wireless networks” it comes up with a warning. “You have made changes to the properties of this connection. If you proceed your changes will be lost. Do you wish to proceed?”

At this point I panic that I will lose my current wireless internet connection and instead ask the experts (that’s you.)

Does the fact that my pc connects to the wireless router through some sort of Netgear proprietary software factor in here?

So can I do this thing wirelessly? If not can I do it with cords and if so how would I achieve that?

Thanks so much for your help.

Ok so I have an update:

When I was initially attempting all of the above I was connected to the internet wirelessly through the wireless pc card as I was doing it.

I swapped from the wireless connection to the Ethernet connection and tried the: control panel>wireless network setup wizard>ok>set up a new wireless network thing.

This time I by-passed the recommended USB option for the “set up a network manually.” Option.

Whereas before it gave me this warning, “Depending on the wireless software running on this computer, the wireless network setup wizard might not work.” Now it let me go through and asked me to print out a set of network settings which were to be entered into the host computer/router and the other computer (ie. PS3)

I printed out the settings but am reasonably clueless as to where exactly to enter them.

Is it though the little Netgear icon in the system tray? Where on the PS3? Where on the host computer?

Again I apologize for the noobness but we all have to start somewhere right?

Pete.

Question posted courtesy of: Maurice

Cassy asked:

I know this sounds like a silly question but how do I know if I have wireless broadband??

This laptop is currently connected by a good old-fashioned ethernet cable and I think the reason I cant connect is because I dont have wireless. Im not the one that signed up so Im just working with what I have…
Whats that?

My laptop has built in wireless adapter thing
How would I know??
What I meant is… have I got regular broadband or wireless broadband?? How can I check this as Im not the one who signed up!

Im connected via ethernet at the moment but I would like to connect wirelessly via router if that is possible.

Question posted courtesy of: Ella

Robert Ya asked:

I have 2 desktop computers and two laptop in my house, which all have Internet connections through a Linksys Wireless router. Both my desktop computers are wired up, and the Internet connection is working fine. My laptop is using wireless, and that was working perfectly normal until three day ago. I got a message on the laptop saying that “No wireless networks were found in range” or “Wireless connection unplugged”, or something like that.

I always put the wireless connection switch on. and ive tried to reset the modem and linksys several time

My router is working fine, and the “Wireless connectivity” sign is green,

When I searched for all wireless networks in range, my laptop would detect my neighbours networks and mine, but now, i can only detect my neighbours networks.

my laptop is a Acer 9300-5197 with wireless card built-in and the model of the card is atheros AR5005G and the second one is a cicero notebook and model card is PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 3B Mini PCI Adapter.
yes i have tried to unplug and replug both of linksys and modem… no use.. only my two desktop work and my two laptop does not work

Question posted courtesy of: Lorraine

iisjman07 asked:

If you have a wireless router, but don’t use the wireless features, can you turn the wireless completely off? mainly for security reasons, but for possible health damage

Question posted courtesy of: Bradley

terrano asked:

I know very little about computers can anyone enlighten me on wireless and is it easier for someone to get your particulars.

Question posted courtesy of: Debbie