I bought a belkin wireless router as i was told its easy to set up But its not Ok 1st of all i put the i.p in given and straight away i worked out how to get on the net

But i couldnt get my laptop on the net so i rang the helpline and without sounding racist they were from india or somewere and i couldnt understand him at all

So i got as far as a little icon on my laptop in the right corner that says connected so i thought it was ok but i type in a web address and it says access denied

Anyone know were i've gone wrong, cheers ben

 

try this ,

click control panel
then network connections
belkin icon
properties
configure
then ad hoc channel
value 804.11b/g
then try the scroll down bar with numbers 1- 13
try each number and then connect to see if it will do so
my connection is on 4

hope this helps

 

Ok i will have a look now cheers mate Do i do this on the laptop or computer

 

Do that on the laptop, have you set up the wireless connection ? Set both computers on the same network ?

Does your ISP assign you a static ip address then ?

 

I dunno what any of that means And i cant understand them on the helpline I have a connection on the laptop as it says i do but it says access denied

 

Is it a wireless connection on the laptop ?

 

I have a wireless card into the side of the laptop which came with the router and the router connected to my pc which is working as my internet now. Evertything is flashing to tell me its all working but its not

 

Right,

Who's your internet providor ??

Have you actually set up the wireless network on the pc that has the router ?

 

Mine is setup as follows, Belkin wireless ADSL router connected to phone line, RJ45 network cable from router to PC, then i got a laptop running a Belkin Wireless card. For some reason the belkin router doesn't like automatically setting up IP Addresses or windows trying to do it, so u need to set em manually.

Ip Addresses on the router are set in blocks to allow multiple systems to connect to it, i only wanted 2 systems networked so i only set two slots, for example, 136.148.4.1 for the first system

for the second to connect 136.148.4.2

For example On your first system set the first address IP Address to 136.148.4.1, then set the subnet mask: 255.255.255.0,
then the default Gateway, which will be the address you use to access the built in software of ya router, also use this address to set the DNS Server.