Thinking of buying 2 Acer Aspire 3002LMi Sempron 2800 laptops but am unsure what would be the best router for setting up my home network in the Uk. Which is the most reliable-Belkin, Link Sys,BT or Cable & Wireless.
View 17 RepliesIn attempting to install a router I inadvertently setup a confusing array of user/administrator accounts which leaves me unable to log in as administrator. Two things 1) My description of the problem leaves people confused and unable to help. 2) Given that people can't really know what my intent is in trying to log in as admin. there are obvious ethical issues involved. It's understandable. I want all those user accounts wiped out so I can just start up without logging in as I did before. Will re-installing Windows do that?
View 6 Replies View RelatedMy connection signal strength keeps going "low" when its usually high. I have disabled the router access thing in administrative tools. But this hasnt solved my problem. I keep getting disconnected.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI have two computers wireless connected. What I now want to do it set up a password so hacking into the system by outsiders is as difficult as possible. I think we are talking "network key" or "Wired equivalency Privacy Key". I know nothing about setting up a wireless connection so don't want to risk disturbing the existing set up which works fine; I just want to add password access.One computer has Windows XP Home and the other Vista Home Premium. Can anyone give me some not too technical advice that will help me do this please?
View 14 Replies View RelatedI'm having issues setting up a home network with printers and hard drives all shared on a wireless local area network.Let's get the specifics out of the way first. Three computers, two desktops and a laptop are running XP home and pro, respectively. My computer dual-boots Ubuntu and Windows XP (but for now mainly XP). Also, (if it matters) I have a WRT54G Linksys router.Now, I have every computer on the same workgroup (NATENET). Every computer has their hard drive and printer set to "shared," and these drives and printers should be accessible. However, when any of the computers goes to "My Network Places," no hard drives are viewable. Also, when you hit "view workgroup computers," you can look at all the computers connected to the network; however, when you double click any computer to open it, it claims that it is unaccessible and the computer doesn't have the permissions necessary to open up the computer's directories.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI have just purchased a HP Media Center PC with XP2 and have an older HP PC with XP2. I also have a router hooked to both PSc to use the DSL internet connection. Is there someone that can help me with setting up a home network to move files from the old PC to the new PC
View 2 Replies View Relatedmy computer seems to keep diconecting from the net, wellwhen i say it disconnects, i mean that when i first put the comp on its fine then after a few mins i cant get any pages up the little tv screens dissappear from the task bar and any browser iuse says page cannot be found if i go into my network settings it says i am connected and if i rebooteverything is fine again, imrunning windows xp and using telewest cable modem even tryed ispconnection test and it says it is fine, stepson is running wireless of the same cable modem and has no problems.
View 14 Replies View RelatedI am hoping somebody on here will be able to help me. I just installed a wireless router so the kids could have the Internet on their computer. I went into the setup and set times to limit how late they could be on. When the time comes that they should be shut off the router disconnects them and then reconnects them shortly thereafter. I have it set to shut off at 9:00 p.m. and turned back on at 8:00 a.m.. I am using a Linksys systems router.
View 6 Replies View RelatedDoes anyone happen to know how to successfully create a network in Windows XP Pro for a wireless laptop and for an Ethernet-hooked-up (non-wireless) computer. I'm trying to printer and file share the two together BUT I've exhausted myself in trying to make it happen. Has anyone successfully done this? Am I missing something? Perhaps hardware?I would truly appreciate any help or advice.
View 14 Replies View RelatedI just finished a complete reinstall of Windows XP. Before the re-installation, I partitioned the hard drive. I want the basic Windows XP system files and drivers on my "C" drive and then I want to accumulate data files (word processing, spreadsheets, photos, music files, etc.) on the new partition which in this case has been labeled the "G" drive. The difficulty I am having is getting getting the "Documents and Settings" to move over to the "G" drive. So that when I want to load photographs from my camera to the computer it goes for C:Documents and SettingsMy NameMy DocumentsMy Pictures. Instead I would like it to go to G:Documents and SettingsMy NameMy DocumentsMy Pictures. Using Windows Explorer I changed the file name of "My Documents" to 'Windows XP old path My Documents" and then I was going to set up a new path to the "G" drive through Control Panel>Administrative Tools>Computer Managment>Disk Management.
However I noticed that when I clicked on Start in the bottom left hand corner and it puts up that little window that "My Documents" which was listed now had the new title 'Windows XP old path My Documents' which I believe means I haven't gotten to the proper place to change the main configuration for Documents and Settings. Long way of saying how do I change the basic configuration for where Document and Settings are stored to a new location.
How to connect from Wireless router to Wireless router.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have Windows XP Sp2 whe i try to chanhe ip in "Local Area Connection" i got following message:" Network Connetion Folder was unable to retrive the list of network Adapters":i checked "Services" .Ok working fine then what 's the problem??
View 1 Replies View RelatedI try to run network set up wizard but it wont find my network device.It finds my network card but i installed a wireless card. It wont find that. Its a linksys and I am using the linksys software to run it.
View 7 Replies View RelatedI have a gateway 6520 gz laptop with IE6 and XPHE, I 'm on a network with two computers and use NETWORK MAGIC for the network, when I turn the laptop on it wants to display {the page cannot be displayed} instead of going online! Then NETWORK MAGIC pops-up and says {YOU ARE NOW CONNECTED} then I have to manually turn on IE6 button to go online, almost like the page {the page cannot be displayed} wants to come up first instead of the connection?
View 14 Replies View RelatedI need to have network drive on my Windows XP computer. In order for a software to work, there needs to exist a network drive, named N, existing on my PC. Since there's not a second PC to link to, what I did was to created a directory named est on the same PC , share it out, and then, map a network drive, named N, to it. When my PC has an Ethernet cable connected to a switch, Windows XP will see that N drive (existing on the same PC). The moment I disconnect that Ethernet cable from the switch, the N drive is gone. Is there a way to have a mapped network drive on XP (as mentioned above), without the need to have a network cable connecting that PC to a switch?
View 3 Replies View Relatedi have a problem with my network folder.It seems that I can't see my existing network connections in the folder! I first noticed this when i click on my dial-up connection the connection window won't come up.When i open the network connections folder in the control panel, an error message comes up with this message:The Network Connections Folder was unable to retrieve the lsit of Network adapters on your machine. Please make sure that the Network Connections service is enabled and running.
View 6 Replies View RelatedMy network adapter does not appear in Device Manager, until I "Show hidden devices". And then it appears as a "Realtek RTL8139 Family PCI Fast Ethernet NIC", whereas I actually have a D-Link DFE-538TX 10/100 adapter. Furthermore, I get no icons (at all) in the Network Communications window. So if I want to change any settings of my LAN, for example, I can't, because I can't select the LAN icon or right-click on it. The LAN is working though. The current driver for the Realtek adapter which is listed is a MS driver.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI'm having problems with my LAN connection and router.Although the LAN connection is connected and firewalled, the router is on with all the lights working, i cannot get on to the net. When I open my internet browser to go to a web page it begins to search for it, however then displays page cannot be displayed message and informs me that the server cannot be found or a DNS has occurred.Sometimes i get a bubble pop up saying limited or no connectivity.
Before the connection stopped working, my main computer was connected directly to the router and there were two laptops also using the router wirelessly. However now none of the computers can access the net The connection works if i remove the router and use a broadband modem.I cannot configure my router as no instructions came with it relating to its use and after numerous attempts at contacting the manufacturers
I installed the stuff on the CD and it tottaly messed up my pcWhen i restarted it kept on restarting and restarting it only came up to "Welcome to Windows'So I had to do a System Restore.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have this problem. I cannot access Internet. I'm trying with an ADSL connection and with a cable connection trough a LAN with a router. I can ping the router and access other computers in the LAN, but no internet. I have already reinstalled windows, but no success.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI get a strong signal from network but it wont let me log on it says firewalled
View 1 Replies View RelatedThis computer using XP sp3 fully updated hard wired to a netgear router seems to want to crash a lot when I open any word documents. I get an event error 4321 NetBT. How do I deal with this please. I also get a message in the task tray that there is a duplicate name on the network.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI've posted this on other forums but to date, no one has been able to help at all. And please read the whole thing as others have posted responses but they aren't relevant.I have a small home system, an XP SP3 desktop, a Win7 Laptop, a file server, and a LinkSys router WRT310N (my third router).The problems seem to occur on the XP desktop. Starting about nine months ago, http requests would become corrupted. Once when I tried to access a page on NYTIMES.COM, I got that page, but on the WASHINGTONTPOST.COM (page not found, of course). Now, about once a day or more, I get some sort of corruption. Mostly, I lose network mappings (I have a small home system); and also at the same time, I cannot get any documents via HTTP; or just some seemingly random sites, I get URL not found, or today, the comments on some blogs don't appear at all. USUALLY, rebooting fixes this, so I reboot several times a day.
THE Win7 Laptop NEVER has any problems. Both are wired into the router. When the problems occur, I cannot raise the router from the desktop; nor can I access any documents via HTTP even using IP addresses. I can however, ping successfully.ONCE I noticed that when the problem occurred, and my phone was using the wireless connection to the router, it too had the same problems with its browser. BUT the WIN7 Laptop never has any problems.I've used MALWAREBYTES and other Anti-virues, but they find nothing. I've tried repairing the stack with "netsh int ip reset resetlog.txt" but that doesn't work either.
A Wanadoo-a789 Model: dv4210-wa as a router and 2 computers both running windows xp and were both reinstalled not long ago, for a while they were able to talk to each other but for some reasson they just can't see each other now, they can't even ping each other. This is even with the windows and router firewall turned off.
View 8 Replies View RelatedI just got a Airlink101 wireless 4 port router (AR325W). $15.00 at fry's. Great buy, and had to get it.I want to just use the wired setup. Not the wireless.How do I turn off the wireless part. I do not want to use it yet, and I do not want anyone else to use my connection over the air. My home computers are already set up in a wired network. This is my first router, so I'm a bit unused to router jargin. I did a quick scan of the complete manual, and saw how to set up the wired and wireless part, but nothing about turning it off the wireless. Maybe it is as simple as not connecting the antenna. I don't know. Anyone have any thoughts?
View 6 Replies View RelatedI have 4 computers on a D-Link wireless router. My wife uses the wireless feature. All computers connect to the net flawlessly. The two downstairs computers are hardwired. One is a Pentium 120mh running Win98, the other is a P4 Running WinXP Pro. I started a Home network using the P4 and made up a Setup disk which I installed on the rest of the computers. The two downstairs computers and the wife's laptop all work with the network. A recently purchased Dell Dimension 3000 completes the system and it too was hardwired into the router but refuses to co-operate.It neither sees the work group or can be seen by the others. I have tried several things, including disabling the firewall, pinging seems to work fine. I tried contacting Dell, but that was a bust.
View 13 Replies View RelatedI have a Windows XP Home computer with a internet connection via USB from a Dynalink RTA100+. This router has a Ethernet port, i have a ethernet cable to my laptop which has xp pro. How do i get the internet to be working at the same time, using the same router, by using the same router but by diffrent ports.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have two computers kitchen computer is hooked up to dsl modem, I have a router in the computer in bedroom.I can only connect to the internet thru the computer in the kitchen, the one in the bedroom says that it can not connect to the server.all the wires are connected correctly, but still nothing
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have a client with a DLink DI-804HV VPN Router. They need to connect with PPTP using the Windows XP "Network Connections". I am able to connect to the VPN with no problem. Their IP structure is 192.168.2.x subnet is 255.255.255.0 and DHCP is turned on with a range of 192.168.2.2 - 254 If I have a user from the PC #1 with 192.168.2.100 ping the PC #2 with 192.168.2.200 then he gets replies with no problem. If I ping him PC #1 (192.168.2.100) I get a reply through the VPN. If I ping PC #2 (192.168.2.200) I get no reply.
So, I had him take the PC #2 192.168.2.200 out of the network (unplug the ethernet) and manually change his IP PC#1 to 192.168.2.200 I cannot ping him. If he changes his IP to anything other than the one DHCP gives him I can't ping him. The only option I can find for the PPTP server settings in the DI-804HV is "Virtual IP of PPTP Server" which I have tried changing to 192.168.5.x and 10.0.0.x with no luck on either.
I have two PCs here that both have fresh installs of XP. One is XP w/ SP2 the other is a Compaq branded version. Neither machine will get on the net. They are both using a Cat5 Ethernet connection to a router. I can get to the net fine with my other PC which is connected to the same router. I can ping the router from either of the problem boxes, but can't get to the router setup page from the browser on either one. I am assuming that it is not spyware related, since the machines have never reached the net.I am sure this must been something small I have overlooked due to a brain fade.
View 14 Replies View RelatedAll right here is my story and my problem.I am using router Thomson Speedtouch 780 WL and Windows XP SP 2 Version 2002. Everything worked well until one day my connection dropped and now doesn't work. I reseted router and couldn't set it up again on my PC! (web browser doesn't open router webpage) but it worked everything well for laptop. My PC doesn't say like router would be unplugged, but it says that my connection is "Limited or no connectivity". I can't even use Mail programs/MSN on my PC, but all works on wifi/laptop using cable.My config settings seem to be same as on laptop and I reinstalled my ethernet driver but nothing has got better.
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