He means he can't get a device to connect to the router wirelessly but he can with a cable

I suspect the router is connecting happily to the ISP.

Posted By: Johnny Comecardiff on January 3rd 2008 at 14:15:09

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Another test of the knowledge fountain that is wotb, help me unbreak my wireless network (General Chat) - samcd84, Jan 3, 14:10:06
- My internet is wirth VM (General Chat) - conker, Jan 3, 14:30:05
- http:// - that will be on the label on the back/bottom etc (n/m) (General Chat) - Snakey, Jan 3, 14:19:03
- because you reset your router it has lost all the connection details (General Chat) - blindasabat, Jan 3, 14:18:14
  - will try that as soon as i'm home from work, i think i still have those details somewhere (n/m) (General Chat) - samcd84, Jan 3, 14:34:29
  - will try that as soon as i'm home from work, i think i still have those details somewhere (n/m) (General Chat) - samcd84, Jan 3, 14:34:22
  - will try that as soon as i'm home from work, i think i still have those details somewhere (n/m) (General Chat) - samcd84, Jan 3, 14:34:13
    - whoh there work pc, (General Chat) - samcd84, Jan 3, 14:34:54
      - Given that it's your wifi details that you need to put in again, you can make it up as you (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Jan 3, 14:45:17
        
        excpet that it'll save him having to set up the details again on his computer if he uses t (General Chat) - blindasabat, Jan 3, 14:48:05
        
        Well yes. (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Jan 3, 14:48:52
        
        nor did i till i'd changed them all on the in-laws laptop (General Chat) - blindasabat, Jan 3, 14:50:49
- Get online with ethernet and go to http://home in your browser (General Chat) - yarmyyarmy, Jan 3, 14:17:46
- What does this mean: "I can get online with ethernet, but not with wireless"? (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Jan 3, 14:12:48
  - it seems i recognise a different network wirelessly than i do via ethernet (General Chat) - samcd84, Jan 3, 14:20:55
    - Crumbs. I've never used belkin kit myself, so I couldn't explain why the network name (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Jan 3, 14:26:16
      - when connected via ethernet i do get internet content, (General Chat) - samcd84, Jan 3, 14:28:00
        
        that's cos facebook is always a bit flakey (General Chat) - blindasabat, Jan 3, 14:32:35
        
        Right, OK. So the router must, then, have all the ISP connection stuff it needs. (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Jan 3, 14:31:53
  - He means he can't get a device to connect to the router wirelessly but he can with a cable (General Chat) - Johnny Comecardiff, Jan 3, 14:15:09
    - Well, that's why I ask. If the router is connecting to the outside world OK, (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Jan 3, 14:20:07
  - That's not odd at all. His router has lost the eonnection details (n/m) (General Chat) - Steve in Holland, Jan 3, 14:14:49
    - *connection*. For example.. (General Chat) - Steve in Holland, Jan 3, 14:16:48
      - No, you didn't read it right. Try again. (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Jan 3, 14:18:59
        
        Hmm. I didn't read that the ethernet cable was in the router. I thought it was in the mode (n/m) (General Chat) - Steve in Holland, Jan 3, 14:50:19
- Is Virgin broadband any good? I have NTL dial up over cable and (General Chat) - CB41, Jan 3, 14:12:44
- If there's a setup wizard, run it again. It has lost all (General Chat) - Steve in Holland, Jan 3, 14:11:37

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