NTL 250 Help
 

Hi,

I am trying to sort something out on a friends machine.

He has an NTL 250 cable modem. On the back there is a USB slot, a cable port and one place for a network cable.

He wants to be wireless and I gave him a wireless router. For the record, he can browse the internet fine using just the NTL 250 modem.

I plugged the network cable into the NTL modem and then into the wireless router.

The following lights lit up green on the router...Power, Ethernet and WLAN.
So it's got power, the ethernet is recognised and the wireless is transmitting a signal.

However, the DSL did not come on. I cannot get the internet through the router from the modem.

Do I need to unplug the NTL modem from the PC so the PC doesn't see the modem at all and the route is Cable - Modem - Router - PC?

Any ideas are greatly appreciated.

Stuart

Re: NTL 250 Help
 

Yep, you can;t connect USB and ethernet at the same time

The PC should connect to the router

Re: NTL 250 Help
 

So the DSL light won't come on because the USB is over-riding it?

Re: NTL 250 Help
 

No idea, but I do now that it simply will not work using both ports.. BTW you do need to reboot the modem when you change from USB to ethernet

Re: NTL 250 Help
 

You should only be using ethernet to connect as we have not supported connection via USB for years and as Kymmy states above only one will work.

Also the USB connection would require drivers in order to work, and they do not work with Vista or Windows 7.

If you need more than one connection then you need to purchase a router or access point.

Re: NTL 250 Help
 

Just out of interest which router is it??

Re: NTL 250 Help
 

The dsl light didn't come on. Should it come in as its not dsl but a throughput from the 250?

It's a speed touch wireless router.

Re: NTL 250 Help
 

I thought it might be..

An ADSL router will not work with cable, instead you need a cable router (it'll have a ethernet WAN port for the modem to plug into and not a telephone port)

Re: NTL 250 Help
 

How do you even manage to plug a DSL modem into a cable router?

Re: NTL 250 Help
 

Via one of the LAN ports (which as most know won't be any different than plugging the modem and PC into a router)