Yesterday was my wife's brithday and I bought her a Laptop for her work and what not. Anyway, cut to the chase, I know nothing about computers. Guy told me that I had to buy a router. I bought one, it was $58, it is a Linksys brand. He said it was a great router or whatever. Trying to install it, I unhooked up the line from the back of my PC Modem to the back of the router and then a new line from the router to the back of the Modem. I installed the router cd software onto my PC and it worked okay and I can get onto the internet on my PC. Now I tried installing the software onto the new laptop and it wont recognize the router and i CANNOT get onto the internet on the laptop, but i can on my PC downstairs right now.

So anyone know what I am doing wrong here? I am starting to get frustrated :(

your wife wired or wireless?

does her computer have any icons in the bottom left hand corrner that might indicate a bad connection? .ie greyed out or slashed network icon?

Originally posted by foggy45
your wife wired or wireless? does her computer have any icons in the bottom left hand corrner that might indicate a bad connection? .ie greyed out or slashed network icon?

no icons.

it should be wireless i guess.

the guy told me the only thing that i needed to make this work, with wireless, was the router. he said the laptop would already be set up for everything else...?

Does it have a button on the front or side to turn the built-in wireless feature on/off? What model is it?

Go into the router settings, and make sure you are actually broadcasting an SSID. (Linksys generally defaults to 192.168.1.1) Also note the encryption key. (You'll need to enter this on your wife's lappy.) Make sure that the wireless functionality of the lapy is turned on. Locate the SSID from your router and enter the key.

Originally posted by Fallen4ng31
Go into the router settings, and make sure you are actually broadcasting an SSID. (Linksys generally defaults to 192.168.1.1) Also note the encryption key. (You'll need to enter this on your wife's lappy.) Make sure that the wireless functionality of the lapy is turned on. Locate the SSID from your router and enter the key.

Yes the SSID is enabled. I dont know how to enter the encryption key. That seems to be the default too. The wireless is turned on the lappy. And how do I enter the router # or whatever into the laptop?

yo, writing from the lappy now!!!

called linksys and had to change a setting on the router settings since i was using windows XP and now i am good to go.

thanks to all who helped though!

Originally posted by eclipse982nrRST
yo, writing from the lappy now!!! called linksys and had to change a setting on the router settings since i was using windows XP and now i am good to go. thanks to all who helped though!

cool, are you using a wireless G or wireless N.
Both are decent but the wireless N has a better connection speed, if you use the same brand for the adapter and router you don't have the fuse about freezing up or reconnecting when its off.

Hows your car running with squirt daily driving and would it pass ohio e-check

Mike has aa hard time finding the power button on this laptop....DO NOT TRY TO ASK HIM CONFUSING questions. In fact, now we have to consider mike will be posting on the shitter. As if life wasnt bad enough.

Originally posted by Star Turbo Talon
In fact, now we have to consider mike will be posting on the shitter. As if life wasnt bad enough.

Hey there's nothing wrong with that, half my posts are made on the shitter (This isn't one of them) Seems it's the only time I have to browse the forums nowadays

Personally, I would stay away from N until they finalize the spec. You may wind up with a piece of hardware that doesn't work too well later on if the spec changes much.