Apple - Linksys
I end up the go-to guy for most people I know and people they know for computer setup questions. I recently went to someone’s house to setup their wireless router, I have setup a fair number of them over the years, so this time I grab my PowerBook and head out. I get there and normally with a windows PC you throw the cd in the drive and in about 20 seconds the router is al set up, but with the mac the CD does nothing, I guess there is a Apple setup utility on their website but I can’t get to it because the router isn’t setup.. so I need to go old school on it and do the normal 192.168.1.1 and do the setup through a browser and setup PPOE and all, not that I can’t do this but the owner had no idea of username and password for their account (the Linksys software grabs this from the PC automaticly)… I worked my way through it no problem but it sure was a lot more work than just throwing a cd in and a few clicks later collecting my case of beer (that’s the pay)..
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MacBook -Linksys
Can you post a step by step tutorial of "do the normal 192.168.1.1 and do the setup through a browser and setup PPOE and all". I'm hopelessly lost with trying to get my new MacBook to work with my linksys router and it's also messing up my roomate's PC laptop connection.
I'll send you a case of beer.
PPOE and Linksys
Depending on your model go to 192.168.1.1 and it should pop a window open asking for user name and password, the default was always 'admin' and 'admin' so do that and you should be on the router config page, from there you should be able to look around and see a PPOE check box (or drop down) select that and you will need a user name and password from your DSL provider, its as simple as entering these and saving the configuration, reboot it, and all should be well, I have heard of issues of using WPA instead of WEP so just to get things up and running I would turn security off all together for the set up time (found on the wireless security tab) and once its working turn on some security either WEP or WPA, WPA is far more secure, but I'm a believer in that it just keeps honest people honest, the hackers are going to find their way around anything if they have reason. let me know if this helps out, if not, send me your model numbers and I will do a run through and do some screen grabs to try and get you all fixed up.
Hi I just got a linksys
Hi I just got a linksys wrt54g or something and it worked through an ethernet port to my macbook, but when I get on airport, I can't get online. I have it WEP enabled, the passwords match and all, and I have full signal in airport, but I cannot get any information i.e. sign onto AIM, load web pages, etc, etc. Is there any solution to this besides making my network open? E-mail me back if you can. Thanks a lot.
if the unit is "routing"
if the unit is "routing" correctly using a direct connection, you're very close, the first thing I would do is turn off WEP just for now, see what happens, and depending on what all machines you are trying to get on the wireless with you may as well go with WPA being as you can use a much more simple password, I run the 54g using WPA (just switched from WEP) good luck and feel free to send me a message on your results.
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