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Originally Posted by lillilady
I hope someone can help me. I have a home PC (Windows XP) connected to a VirginMedia Motorola Surboard modem via LAN. I have now bought a Sony Vaio laptop which I want to connect wireless to the internet. I bought a Belkin wireless router. I connected the supplied ethernet cable from router to modem and set up Wifi on my laptop which works fine but I then lose internet on my PC and if I put it back on my PC I lose internet on my laptop. My PC is pretty old and has no ethernet ports to connect it directly to my new router, just the LAN one to my modem - is this essential for it to work?? Or is it something to do with the IP addresses? I bought a USB to ethernet adapter but couldn't set it up as I get a Code 39 error on my PC but that is for another forum!! If someone can tell me basically how I should set up I would be really grateful.
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Have you plugged the cable from the modem into the correct socket on the router? It should be in the socket marked WAN, If you do not have a WAN socket you may have the wrong type of router. Make sure you switch everything off before connecting any cables and then back on once connected.