Ready to Scream//WRT54g Set-up

chill pill,,,chill pill.........arrrrghhh Ok let's try this.

I have tried everything to hook this thing up and I have a great connection, 4 or 5 bars, and it tells me I have a connection but I cannot get on the internet.

I have a few zillion questions once I get this going but first......Can anyone help me......

I have tried the 192.168 in the url and the only thing I appear to be missing is the domain and host name.......Are these important to make this work.

I use Time Warner cable and on my old wireless deal, it automatically set everything up....

I have tried the CD, no go, reset it, the easy connect, no go and reset.

The next sound you hear,,,,,,,listen is my window opening and this thing flying out the window.......................ok chill pill,,,,chill pillll.....

Thanks in advance, Anyone.

 

maybe you could supply more specifics of the hardware you are having trouble with?

 

Thinkpad T40 with a Ralink 2500 internal wireless card. I am trying to go wireless with this one.

Secondly but not as important tonight I have a Thinkpad A31 with a Microsoft MN510 wireless card (this card starts blinking when I hook it up). Normally it stays solid when connected to my Microsoft base station.
On the T40 I can go thru the entire set up process and everything reads like its connected, I put in either a WEP/WAP code and it connects. But no Internet.
Time Warner is my service.
Thanks

 

I plan on grabbing a Linksys nic card or adapter for the A31 once I at least get the T40 set-up.

 

Your first mistake was getting a linksys router - they are widely know to be user unfriendly, their support like a four leaf clover and their helpfulness in peering to resolve your problems like a crystal ball behind a tank of bear while wearing shades in a darken room.

Return your device and get something, anything else like belkin or dlink.

 

Linksys router are not use friendly to most people they not any hard to setup then any other brand

i wound suggest you do wired setup get go with that then you can setup you wireless secuirty

the ip shound be 192.168.1.1

or gateway ip

winch you can get in xp via open command prompt and type ipconfig

same with vista


on you laptop does it give you ip address?

in the 192.168.1.1 range this mean you laptop is commuicated to router wireless

are you sure not you wireless router not connect to you adsl / cable modem


check see if get ip address i wound try wired see if work on internet side

 

For the router to auto connect you will need to clone your mac address of the pc (or router) used to setup the account into the router. Time Warner/Comcast uses MAC Filtering to control access. Without it you will not connect to the www. Setup the wan port for DHCP.

As previous posted yo must to the initial setup with wired. Other wise yo will be dropped as certain changes are made.

 

Did you mange to get setup wired?

get to admin page to change seting for wireless

 

Thanks for asking Andy........my daughter has needed to log a bit of time on the pcs so I can't take them down right now.....Although someone gave me one key piece to my puzzle.
Unplug the cable modem for a few seconds then rehook everything. I also have my ip address info from my ISP, so this time I plan to be ready..... I didn't realize that unhooking the modem was of any importance...

Also, coupla questions...
1. Can I have WAP on one pc and WEP on another. One is b the other g.

2. Can I create my own WEP or WAP codes or does the router assign a code.

Once I get this thing running, I will let you know what steps I took to correct. This old Microsoft base station has been steady and reliable and I really hope this Linksys is an improvement over my 5 yr old router/base station

 

first possible problem...when you are resetting your router, make sure you are HOLDING the button down for about 10 seconds, dont just tap the button and immediately let go.

secondly, once you reset the router, pull the plug on your modem for about 30 seconds and plug it back in. Once all the status lights are normal on both the router and modem, go ahead and log into your modem and set it up to automaticaly obtain an IP(DHCP). voila! i hope this helps.

 

To the best of my knowledge this isn't an issue with Time Warner here in the Charlotte area. I've setup numerous Linksys routers that use Time Warner service, and have not had to clone any MAC information. I don't know if they do in other areas of the country, though.

As you've found, there is a specific order you need to plug things in in order for them to talk to each other. Always check the Status page on the router configuration utility (using your browser, and pointing to the default 192.168.1.1 address) to see if you have a WAN IP address.

For your 2 questions:
1. If you only have 1 router, which it sounds like you do, all components in the network should use the same encryption. If one them does not support WPA, either upgrade it to a card that does, or you'll have to downgrade to WEP, unless there are updated drivers for your hardware that will allow you to use WPA (highly recommended over WEP).

2. You need to provide the information to the router itself. If you end up using WEP, you can provide it a passphrase, and it will generate up to 4 keys for you. You decide which to use, and just make sure all components are using the same key. WPA is similar in that you provide a value to the router, which ends up being the encryption key, but just make sure it is not a word that would ever be found in a dictionary. There are numerous utilities available for free that will help you generate these keys. There is a free one online (once you get connected) at https://www.grc.com/passwords.htm, as well as other utilities that help you verify that your router is not exposing any open ports.

 

You sir DTrump are my new hero.....Hey I hope you are on the site tonight or tomorrow, cause I can feel some additional questions coming your way. Thank You ever so much for responses.....
Since you live here in Charlotte, your comment regarding Time Warner was helpful....In other words I can stop cussing them cause it may not be there issue....Whew....

Ok, I will start to get this thing wired (or wirelessed) tonight.......

 

Finally online, wirelessly I might add. Well it was the MAC cloning that did me in.

I finally had enough and called Linksys customer service (and they were great by the way). The CSR had me
1. unhook everything...pc first, router, second and modem last. Reverse the order to re hook them back up.

2. cmd- ipconfig-release and renew a few hundred times. If it don't ping, it ain't got that thing'", comes to mind

3. finally set-up the router just with the basics.

4. then set up my second laptop (was a breeze)

5. then took my first laptop from wired to wireless, unstalling then reinstalling my wireless g card.

During the basis setup we went down the line (typing in the ip address in the address bar) and when we got to the MAC cloning I was on disable. We changed that and everything really flowed after that.

Thank all you folks for the advice and during my call to Linksys, we did touch on just about ever piece of advice each of you gave.

Iwould say to remember a few things,,,,1. Your IP address, keep your password simple at first, change it later when you are up and running and completely turn off and let sit for a minute or so, each device in the chain.