Respect to the spec man :-)

Been trying to get a router onto my system, my technical support keep coming up with the same suggestions;
All seemingly wired up and ready to log in, but then when I open up "Obtain an IP address automatically" and key the number into my browser - firefox or IE - they try to go online, which of course they can't as the router is not configured; instead of connecting to the router. Catch 22; and I bin 'catchin' it all day yesterday!! Needless to say the 'login to the router' window never appears............. Tried switching off my security but no different.

Should have said router is tp-link 642 and operating system windows 2000 pro.

Thanks if anyone can help???

Not sure if you've got the instructions muddled up perhaps. The first step is to configure the router. You need to disable any modem you previously had (in IE select 'never dial' in Internet Options/Connections) and check the Ethernet connection is enabled in Control Panel/Network and Dialup connections.

Then you would key the local address of the router into a browser. The initial local address is set in the router and so should be in the instructions. It is normally 192.168.0.1 so in that case you would type into a browser

http://192.168.0.1

After doing that and setting username and password in the router, it will attempt to connect to the internet.

Thanks Kayak, you are talking to a total illiterate here!

Do I need my router to be wired up and/or switched on before I type the 192 address in (I have tried it both on and off line and there is nothing that ever comes up except server has been reset) and where do i type it?
I can't get through to the username and password window for the router on my PC.

My PC is not wireless enabled and so has a phone sized connector into the modem as well as one ethernet cable from the pc into the modem, but the router has space only for ethernet cables, maybe I am wiring up wrong? I use ADSL for broadband

Sorry to be such a total dumbo, lucky I wasn't in your class at school!!

I think the configuration address of that router is http://192.168.1.1

They do vary a bit and looking at the user manual online that seems to be correct.

http://www.tp-link.com/products/product_des.asp?id=3

It has to be powered up and connected to your main PC with the ethernet cable supplied plugged into an ethernet socket on your PC (network adapter socket).


The default seems to be 'admin' for username and password.

The details of what to do should all be in your user guide.

Some of the choices you have to make depend on your ISP.

OK I'm a little confused here hawick, if I understand you correctly, before all this you had an ADSL modem connected to the PC both by a modem cable and by an ethernet cable? Now you want to add a wireless router (which is not an ADSL modem) to share the main connection?

If that is so, (a) what is the existing modem and (b) do you have one or two ethernet ports at the back of your PC?

You're a star for bearing with me! -:)

I have just tried these procedures and I seem to be back at base!

My modem has an ethernet cable into the tower, and a smaller phone cable from the modem into the box. There is only one ethernet cable point on my tower, so i was told to put it into the router, and one from the router back to the modem.

And though the IP addresses come up in 'obtain an IP address, I cannot then log on to the router, instead I get a warning message about multiple gateways???

The user manual shopws the router sitting between your modem and your PC with the four ports connected outward to your network or other PCs.

It indicates that you should be connected successfully to the internet before adding the router. Then power down and connect the modem output to the WAN socket on your router and the router outputs into your own network including your tower PC. Then you can configure it from a PC on the network after switching everything on and booting up the PC(s).

hawick, to configure the router connect the modem to the 'WAN' or 'uplink' port of the router (you should have 1 WAN port and a number of LAN ports). Turn the router on and the modem off and reboot the PC. Then in an Internet Explorer window, type http://192.168.1.1 in the address bar and Go and you should get the router configuration page in the window.

You will also need to disable DHCP either in the router or in the modem, since I think you have two DHCP servers at the moment. If this means nothing, try the first step first :-)

Thanks for all your efforts. Where would i find the DHCP? I'm a little scared to disable the modem completely (as opposed to turning it off) but if there is a conflict because of similar numbers, that might be the answer. I tried it with the router on and modem off, no joy.

I must be so close, but when I put the number into IE or Firefox it tries to connect to the internet which of course it can't, instead of bringing up the log in to router window!

I haven't had any message to recognize new hardware.

Have you selected 'never dial a connection' in IE? Turn everything off, then reboot router and PC and try to connect to the router.

You won't get messages about new hardware since hardware connected across a network connection is not seen to be on your PC.

Is the router connected to the PC via one of the output ports on the router with the modem unconnected to the PC?

Substitute the your modem for the TD-8800 (the fax/printer is optional) and this is what you are trying to do.

Well done thanks thanks and thanks again it's medals for Haystack and Kayak!

Not quite sure which f your answers was the clincher but by hook or crook, I'm up and running!!

Slightest prob still exists I have clicked I wanted windows to remember my password so I have not 'secured' the connection to my ISP (others can use it). How do i make it secure with my usual password?

I'm really wishing I hadn't switched over to beta mode with my email thingie. For some reason it seemed to take 10 times longer to do anything, and I switched back. At least I thought I did :S.

I can see in the URLs when I'm trying to do stuff that beta is present in some functions, so it's obviously all in a muddle. Driving me nuts now, as most of the time I simply can't do anything. I have repeatedly cleared browsing history, which alleviates the problem for a few minutes, but of course this is also causing me problems elsewhere.

Is this a Vista issue?

my pc's about a year old and it's getting too slow to handle all the things I need to trade with. The problem has got alot worse in the last 6 weeks.

then I noticed the city equities advertisment next to my heatmap. You know the one which actually shows your name on the roulette wheel. This seems to absolutely chew up cpu time but most annoyingly if I right click on it I don't get any properties to see what software it's using.

Advice please. I had this problem about 2 years ago but in the end I paid advfn a tenner a month to not take their adverts where flash seemed to be the problem.

I think I need to find a way to turn these cpu intensive adverts off.


PS - pc is a 3.0 ghz pentium 4 with 3 gig of ram in it and a matrox g200mms quad card. I've just bought a g450mms to replace that with as it was cheap enough on ebay to see if that helps

I run a stack of applications when I'm trading but my pc could more than keep up until 6 weeks ago and I've added no new ones.

CC, use task manager to find out which processes are using up the most CPU time.

Kayak - it's the city equities advert for sure. Go to ftse100 heatmap and keep refreshing it until you city equities roulette advert. You'll know it's the right one because it's the only advert i've ever seen which has my name in it.

With just that ie screen up my cpu is running at about between 20 and 80% constantly on my laptop (less on my pc)

So i guess i'll just have to not run heatmap tomorrow and see what happens.

The City Equities causes my PC to spend about 30% of its time on iexplore.exe (MS Internet Explorer). I guess it is some Java.

Hmm. It's the City Equities ad alright -- but I don't think it's a Java issue, per se. It's definitely doing something really mill-intensive.