How do you connect NTL250 to a Belkin wireless router ?

[stallyon]

I am having major problems connecting wirelessly from my Windows 98 PC to my NTL modem.

I have an NTL 250 modem and this connected to my PC gives me internet.
I then purchased a Belkin G Cable Wireless Router and followed the on screen instructions to connect it to my modem with wireless set with 128 bit WEP encryption. It installed successfully. If I connect an ethernet cable to my wireless router I still get internet - so far so good.

I then installed the Belkin G USB Wireless Adapter to my PC as per on screen instructions. After rebooting the Wireless Monitor says that it can find my Wireless Router so I select it and click Connect. It asks me to set up a profile so I set up 128 bit Open Access encryption and connect. The Wireless Monitor tells me that I have connected successfully to my Wireless Router but not to the internet

Connecting an ethernet cable from PC to wireless router again works giving me internet. I can web browse the router using ip address 192.168.2.1 while the cable is plugged in but can not if the cable is unplugged. Where am I going wrong?

[MovedGoalPosts]

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I've split your post from the previous thread. You've probably got specific issues.

I'm not sure if you are using the right encryption settings on the USB. If you have 128 bit WEP on the router, you need that, not open access on the USB

To get internet access, you need to ensure that the wireless is allowing the use of the router DNS as a gateway. You might need to look in the network settings on the computer to check that.

Also check nothing silly like a firewall is getting in your way.

[stallyon]

Originally Posted by Rob

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Hi

Originally Posted by Rob

I'm not sure if you are using the right encryption settings on the USB. If you have 128 bit WEP on the router, you need that, not open access on the USB

Thats what I thought as well but the only encrytion options I had on the USB adapter was Open Access, Shared and WPA - even with encryption turned off on the wireless router and USB adapter I still get no internet access but it stills says its connected to the wireless router

Originally Posted by Rob

To get internet access, you need to ensure that the wireless is allowing the use of the router DNS as a gateway. You might need to look in the network settings on the computer to check that.

Also check nothing silly like a firewall is getting in your way.

The network settings of the PC are all set as dynamic so would have thought this was ok? I've even checked the ip addresses and gateways for the usb adapter and found this to be in the same range as the router. The Cable Wireless Router has its own built in firewall - Could this be stopping it? I can get internet access if i use an ethernet cable in the back of the wireless router so the problem must lie with the wireless connection.

I've never trusted Windows 98 network capabilities and have purchased a spanky new PC with Windows XP so will try with this when its delivered

[stallyon]

Update:

I checked the settings for all the devices on my PC last night and found something very odd indeed....

Using winipcfg, my ethernet card clearly shows the ip address, def gateway and dns servers but the wireless usb adapter only shows the ip address and def gateway - the dns servers are blank. obv this is the reason why i cant connect to t'net but how can i force the usb adapter to popualte with the dns settings? i've tried using static ip address, def gateway and dns servers but this then stops the usb adapter from talking to the wireless router.

help?

[Tech_Boy]

dns addresses are 194.168.4.100 and 194.168.8.100, you will need to specify the ip, the default gateway and subnet mask should then auto populate, then add the dns, should be under the properties of the tcp/ip in the properties of your network adaptor.
Hope that this helps.

[stallyon]

thanks for this. i knew the dns settings for ntl anyway even adding the dns servers did not work (see my last post). I configured my new PC last night and after resetting my NTL modem and Belkin Router found that I had a wireless connection yayyyy \o/

I guess the problem was with my old PC which was only running Win 98