Router Help

Enigma · Post by **Enigma** » 2005-01-15 02:41pm

When it comes to routers I am a complete retard. I have a linksys BEFSR41 series router and I am having trouble getting connected to the internet. I've connected the wires right and on the router it is shows that I'm connected to the router and the internet but I can't get access to the net on my comp. I can't make heads or tails on the router's config screen.

HELP!!!!!

Glocksman · Post by **Glocksman** » 2005-01-15 04:54pm

How do you normally connect to the net?
Cable modem. Is it static or dynamic IP?
Dialup?
DSL?

Enigma · Post by **Enigma** » 2005-01-16 12:10am

Glocksman wrote:How do you normally connect to the net?
Cable modem. Is it static or dynamic IP?
Dialup?
DSL?

Cable with dynamic IP.

Glocksman · Post by **Glocksman** » 2005-01-16 12:18am

That's usually the easiest of all to setup.
Here's a Linksys Knowledge Base article that goes step by step on how to set it up.

Be sure to clone your PC's MAC address onto the router as a lot of ISP's use the MAC as an additional security measure.

Enigma · Post by **Enigma** » 2005-01-16 12:34am

Glocksman wrote:That's usually the easiest of all to setup.
Here's a Linksys Knowledge Base article that goes step by step on how to set it up.

Be sure to clone your PC's MAC address onto the router as a lot of ISP's use the MAC as an additional security measure.

I'll try it tomorrow and keep you updated should I mess up.

Enigma · Post by **Enigma** » 2005-01-16 02:20pm

Strange. I can now access the internet through the router and the only thing different was that I turned off the computer when I connected the router. Very weird. Now to connect my father's computer to the router.

Oh and I can access the internet through Firefox but I can through IE. I know IE is horrible but my sister uses it and I would appreciate it on figuring out how to get IE to work.

EDIT: scratch that. IE now works. But now to connect the other comp.

Enigma · Post by **Enigma** » 2005-01-16 03:08pm

WhooHoo! I've managed to get both computers to work with the router and I can access my father's computer through mine but can't the other way around.

His is a P133 using Win95.

Glocksman · Post by **Glocksman** » 2005-01-16 03:35pm

Did you set file sharing permissions on your machine?

Enigma · Post by **Enigma** » 2005-01-16 03:38pm

Glocksman wrote:Did you set file sharing permissions on your machine?

Yes, but right now I am trying to get the old computer to work without crashing during boot up. Does Win 95 have a similar program as msconfig?

White Haven · Post by **White Haven** » 2005-01-16 03:49pm

Networking 95...good lord. That's like...like...aaargh, analogies fail me!

Enigma · Post by **Enigma** » 2005-01-16 04:06pm

White Haven wrote:Networking 95...good lord. That's like...like...aaargh, analogies fail me!

I mean in WinMe I can run msconfig under Start>Run and then access the windows drivers but what do I do in Win95?

Faram · Post by **Faram** » 2005-01-16 04:47pm

Enigma wrote:
White Haven wrote:Networking 95...good lord. That's like...like...aaargh, analogies fail me!
I mean in WinMe I can run msconfig under Start>Run and then access the windows drivers but what do I do in Win95?

You can't

If you can afford it dump the Win95 and get a new computer. It's unsupported and a pice of crap nowdays.

Enigma · Post by **Enigma** » 2005-01-16 04:49pm

Faram wrote:
Enigma wrote:
White Haven wrote:Networking 95...good lord. That's like...like...aaargh, analogies fail me!
I mean in WinMe I can run msconfig under Start>Run and then access the windows drivers but what do I do in Win95?
You can't

If you can afford it dump the Win95 and get a new computer. It's unsupported and a pice of crap nowdays.

Damn. My father is planning to get a new one this week. My father's current one is 9 years old.

White Haven · Post by **White Haven** » 2005-01-16 04:56pm

No offense Enigma, but as a professional tech, we hate people like your father.

Enigma · Post by **Enigma** » 2005-01-16 05:18pm

White Haven wrote:No offense Enigma, but as a professional tech, we hate people like your father.

Well it is not his fault. My brother originally bought the computer and passed it to my father once I built my own. Over all it has been working fine and I am sure that if I were to reformat the computer it would work excellently. But I do not want to reformat it. My father doesn't use the computer much except for financial purposes.

White Haven · Post by **White Haven** » 2005-01-16 06:06pm

...financial data stored one an OS that has precisely no security features at all, and has been unsupported for a good while? JESUS.

Enigma · Post by **Enigma** » 2005-01-17 07:18pm

White Haven wrote:...financial data stored one an OS that has precisely no security features at all, and has been unsupported for a good while? JESUS.

Well, that computer hasn't been connected to the internet nor networked to any computer for at least 5 years and my father only started using it for financial purposes a couple of years ago.

Enigma · Post by **Enigma** » 2005-01-17 07:20pm

Enigma wrote:
Glocksman wrote:Did you set file sharing permissions on your machine?
Yes, but right now I am trying to get the old computer to work without crashing during boot up. Does Win 95 have a similar program as msconfig?

Ach, I've found the source of the crash, when I disconnected my father's computer from the router the computer boots up fine but if I connect it to the router it crashes on startup, something to do with VxD?