NTL and Asus Wireless Router

[tuseef]

Hey

I am using NTL Broadband (1MB) along with an Asus WL500g Wireless Broadband router. The LAN IP is 192.168.1.1 and the Subnet Mask is 255.255.255.0

I knew very little about wireless stuff though apart from the basics

There is a pc which is connected to the router via thernet cable which works fine, however, my laptop which uses a wireless 802.11g card can see and connect to the network (which I have created and given a WEP key to), however, it is unable to assign an ip address to my machine

Thus I get limited connectivity

I do everything via DHCP

I have tried to follow the network setup wizard to add devices to my wireless network using flash usb drives, it tells me that the device (my laptop) is configured and has been added to the pool but i still have the same problem

Any ideas?

[nffc]

There's probably a dodgy setting but here are some fundamentals to check:
- can you get local access
- are both PCs in the same domain
- are both PCs having IPs 192.168.1.x where x is not 1 and not the same for both
- subnet mask should be 255.255.255.0 for both
- default gateway should be 192.168.1.1 for both
- PC names are valid and not identical

It may help to knock the WEP and other securities off for the time being, until you are sure all PCs can connect to the LAN.

Don't bother with the USB flash thingie or the Wireless Setup Wizard- you can use DHCP and you are, so assigning IPs is fine, and the security should be off so you should have no probs connecting- use the SP2 Wireless Zero Config as it pwns. It also needs to have a USB port on the router which is dead unlikely...

HTH and

[tuseef]

Wow, i reset my router, took the security off reconnected and now its fine!!!!

Bloody bloody hell

Thanks for your help mate, would it be possible for me to add security now and change the name of the network without fecking it all up?

[Hom3r]

look at doc with post 6
http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/sh...ad.php?t=34657

[tuseef]

Hi,

I seems when I add the Wep encryption, i have the same problem as my original post

For tonite I shall keep it this way as I cannot access the other pc from which i was testing the changes

Obviously, longer term i need some kind of wep security

But it seems odd, the name change (SSID) was fine by the way

[nffc]

Does your router/card support WPA?