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caveman · 09-01-2005, 12:13

Nice to talk to you again Paul. The latest is I'm going to buy a Netgear RP614 wired router as I've found an easy way to run cables to his room.
From other advice that I had recieved I was going to use the "alternate configuration" facility on the TCPIP properties of his laptop. As I said before the laptop is presently set up with IP configuration for his workplace and we he would use it set to auto for home BB. BTW the OS of the laptop is XP Pro.
Seeing as my BB worked straight away after reinstall with LAC set to auto, I thought it was a simple matter of similarly setting the laptop to "automatically
obtain an IP address" but that isn'e so as it wont connect.
Would everything be different if I had already installed the router and tried to get the laptop to work on auto settings.

09-01-2005, 12:13	#5
caveman Inactive Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Romford, Essex Posts: 433	Re: Get my Laptop Online Nice to talk to you again Paul. The latest is I'm going to buy a Netgear RP614 wired router as I've found an easy way to run cables to his room. From other advice that I had recieved I was going to use the "alternate configuration" facility on the TCPIP properties of his laptop. As I said before the laptop is presently set up with IP configuration for his workplace and we he would use it set to auto for home BB. BTW the OS of the laptop is XP Pro. Seeing as my BB worked straight away after reinstall with LAC set to auto, I thought it was a simple matter of similarly setting the laptop to "automatically obtain an IP address" but that isn'e so as it wont connect. Would everything be different if I had already installed the router and tried to get the laptop to work on auto settings.