Setting up NETGEAR wireless router to new DSL service

10 Mar 2005 7:55 PM

jayelee

I am getting ready to set up a dsl instead of cable modem. I have a laptop
and a wirless router, but am unsure how to configure and no help from my dsl
provider (go figure) or Netgear (without$$$). Can anyone PLEASE help me or
send me a link, etc.?
Thanks
JLT

10 Mar 2005 8:10 PM

Chris Bartram

jayelee wrote:

> I am getting ready to set up a dsl instead of cable modem. I have a laptop
> and a wirless router, but am unsure how to configure and no help from my dsl
> provider (go figure) or Netgear (without$$$). Can anyone PLEASE help me or
> send me a link, etc.?
> Thanks
> JLT
>
>

Does your laptop have wired ethernet as well as wireless?

If so:

Connect router to DSL line and power.

Connect laptop to router with the cable in the boz. Reboot the laptop
(or connect before you start it)

Start a web browser. Type http://192.168.0.1 in the address bar.

Log in as 'admin' with password 'password'

Follow the prompts. It should auto-setup the DSL for you.

That should get you online, but make sure you:

1. Change the password for the roter (and remember it)

2. Set some security on the wireless- use WEP/WPA and turn off the SSID
broadcast.

10 Mar 2005 8:36 PM

Airhead

"jayelee" <jayele***@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:xJ6dnSzwfrO8O63fRVn-3A@adelphia.com...
> I am getting ready to set up a dsl instead of cable modem. I have a
laptop
> and a wirless router, but am unsure how to configure and no help

from my dsl

> provider (go figure) or Netgear (without$$$). Can anyone PLEASE

help me or

> send me a link, etc.?
> Thanks
> JLT

It will be just like your cable except it will probably use PPPoE.
Usually you will need to enter your user id and password in
the router under the PPPoE settings.

11 Mar 2005 6:13 PM

Anthony R. Gold

On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 14:55:10 -0500, "jayelee" <jayele***@yahoo.com> wrote:

> I am getting ready to set up a dsl instead of cable modem. I have a laptop
> and a wirless router, but am unsure how to configure and no help from my dsl
> provider (go figure) or Netgear (without$$$). Can anyone PLEASE help me or
> send me a link, etc.?

Which model? The DG834G, which is modem/router/firewall/B&G wireless AP
all in one small inexpensive box, has web server and configuration wizard.

1) Connect your computer to the DG834G (either by ethernet cable or by
wireless using SSID (network name) of NETGEAR and no security, have the
computer IP set to DHCP, use browser to open http://192.168.0.1/ using
login name of "user" and password of "password" (but no quote marks).

2) Plug in phone line with DSL (with NO filter in that line). The
configuration wizard will ask you for the DSL login name and password
which will have been given to you by your ISP and it then configures the
modem and PPPoE parameters automagically.

It really could not be much easier unless you paid a technician to do the
install for you.

Tony