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Originally Posted by dparker224
hi there,i changed over to cable broadband a few months ago,i have since bought a netgear wireless router which i was told would work with cable,but im unsure how to set it up,
i plugged it into my cable phone line but couldnt get laptop to connect or my apple imac g5,at the moment im using the modem virgin gave me which has white cable screwed into the back of it,
im just wondering if i need to unscrew that cable and put an ethernet type connection on which would fit the netgear router,
anyone any ideas as im no expert on these things,model of router is NETGEAR WPN824.
do i still need to connect through the virgin moden?
or is there a simpler solution,im on windows vista and tiger 10.4 on apple.any help much appreciated,thanks,daniel
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its easy to get confused at first, but you always need to use the supplyed cable modem as your first point of connection.
what you do is plug your WPN824 into that and then connect your PCs into the LAN WPN824 ports or its wireless LAN.
VM-CM<===>WAN-RJ45-WPN824-LAN-RJ45<===>PC1
VM-CM<===>WAN-RJ45-WPN824-wirelessLAN<--->PC2/ PC3/ etc
VM-CM = virginmedia cable modem
<===> =straight RJ45 twisted pair Lan cable
<---> = wireless connections to LAN side PCs/devices
power cycle the CM then the router then the PC's
and you should find that the WAN side of the wireless router has been given a valid webside IP, and the router has given out some valid LAN side IPs for your connected PCs.
at this point it should be working fine and all you might want/need to do is go into the routers mini web, probably
http://192.168.0.1 or
http://192.168.1.1 and setup/change your wireless security settings.