*How Stupid Am I? *

[CutMeMick]

I have a nice setup. 9 computers, a Wii and Xbox 360. Print server. WPA and MAC ID security and a repeater on top of it.

It is not a complicated setup by any means, but with 4 people living in the house it is a little over the top, but it is great for having small lan parties as four of them are in the basement alone.

Dean canyou swing by Whittier, California sometime this weekend.
I'll be in my home.
I guarantee food, place to sleep and cool night out in L.A.

I have two Laptops.

A Macbook Pro (Beautiful Machine)



And a Compaq 6710B (not great, but setup with dual boot between XP professional and Vista Enterprise.)

Sweet...

[Wadeb_21]

Hey mick did you end up getting it figured out? Sometimes like the others said the smallest thing can throw it off. Were you able to get to the routers actual settings?

Wadeb,
I'm at work now.

But to make it even more laughable I got stuck on step 3.

Step.1 - Open box
Step.2 - Insert WizardSetUp disc
Step.3 - Follow Instructions



When I inserted the disc to help me set it up it tells me that it's picking up (2) routers. Meaning (2) connections but how? If I only have (1) that's hard wire which is connected by Modem. How can it say it's picking up (2)?

first thing I would do is go to your router make sure your modem is connected to your router, then just for the time being hard wire your router to your laptop just to set up the router/wireless network. Once your hardwired go to your computer and get on your internet browser and put in the following address 192.168.1.2 (I think that is netgears standard address for there routers, if not you may need to look at the instructions to see what address it is) press enter and that should take you to the routers internal settings. Once in there its pretty much up to you with what you want to do, If I remember correctly on lefthand side is where the setup wizard is and all the other settings you can manual change are underneath the setup wizard. I think all you really need to do is name your wireless network, give it a password so no-one else can piggyback off your network and I think that might be it, its been awhile since I set one up.

[Kev]

Have you tried disabling the WEP key? Maybe you havn't entered it correctly.

Is your connection showing up at all but with a locked padlock, or is it not even highlighting?

Can't you connect it with a cable for now to make them at least connect, then eliminate what the problems might be one by one?

[CutMeMick]

Hey mick did you end up getting it figured out? Sometimes like the others said the smallest thing can throw it off. Were you able to get to the routers actual settings?

Wadeb,
I'm at work now.

But to make it even more laughable I got stuck on step 3.

Step.1 - Open box
Step.2 - Insert WizardSetUp disc
Step.3 - Follow Instructions



When I inserted the disc to help me set it up it tells me that it's picking up (2) routers. Meaning (2) connections but how? If I only have (1) that's hard wire which is connected by Modem. How can it say it's picking up (2)?

first thing I would do is go to your router make sure your modem is connected to your router, then just for the time being hard wire your router to your laptop just to set up the router/wireless network. Once your hardwired go to your computer and get on your internet browser and put in the following address 192.168.1.2 (I think that is netgears standard address for there routers, if not you may need to look at the instructions to see what address it is) press enter and that should take you to the routers internal settings. Once in there its pretty much up to you with what you want to do, If I remember correctly on lefthand side is where the setup wizard is and all the other settings you can manual change are underneath the setup wizard. I think all you really need to do is name your wireless network, give it a password so no-one else can piggyback off your network and I think that might be it, its been awhile since I set one up.

Will give that a go tonight see what turns up...
Thanks...

Thanks Bilbs...

[CountryBoy]

Here goes mine..Top of the Line

[Saddo]

Hmmm, my son set it up here in no time.

hahahahaha..... i set mine up here and it was all in german the ip website and the CD as well and i couldn't understand a word of german at the time... didnt take long though

but mick it will be the IP set up as stated above... i'm guessing they are showing 2 routers because they are giving you a choice of what you would like to set up, wireless or wired

good luck you dummy