Optimist

You can't update firmware on Sky's Netgear box. It is preloaded with their own firmware and you will lose the actual ISP logon to Sky and you can't re-enter it as it is hidden and not supplied to users.

Bolshi

To upgrade the firmware, you have to download the file from the Netgear website.

For future ref, to find MAC address.

Open a command prompt window (Start Button - Run - cmd)
At C prompt type 'ipconfig /all' followed by enter.
Mac address is the same as physical address.

Edit I've just seen Haystacks post, if that is correct, forget firmware update.

To get MAC address

Windows XP
Click on the Start menu, and select Control Panel.
Double click on Network Connections.
Double click on Local Area Connection.
Click on the Support tab and then click on the Details button.
The Hardware Address is labelled Physical Address

OR

Using your mouse, click on the Start Button.
Click on Programs.
Next, click on Accessories, and then Command Prompt.
Once a small black window appears, type in ipconfig /all (with a space between the g and the /).
Locate the number to the right of Physical Address. This is your MAC address.

My brain hurts! :-)))

Ah! So the mac address is different for ethernet, wireless and local area connections?

Many thanks to everyone for their time & trouble. I certainly got my "monies" worth today!

The MAC address is a number unique across all network devices in the world. It is often printed on the back of the device somewhere and sometimes printed on laptops on a label.

A network device refers to the network device within the computer. Hence a laptop will normally have at least 2 devices (ethernet, wireless and possibly others such as a 1394 conection) and a unique MAC address for each.

Haystack,

You appear to be the main poster on here solving problems.
Do you only offer advice on computer problems, as I need help for the following.

I am in debt, my wife left me (not a problem on it's own) but now she wants to come back, my mistress no longer loves me, I lack self confidence and oh yes, before she left me my missus threw my computer through the bedroom window and for some reason it no longer works.
Any suggestions.

I posted the above just to show that no matter what IT problems are out there, things could be worse.

An Icon Story

Greekman
Yeh! But I'm the main man on here for presenting problems!!

:-)

greekman

Actually 'Kayak' is the main source of information here for problem solving. I just add a few comments now and then.

As regards you personal problems, I would recommend going gay. This advice is not based on personal experience, but you seem to have tried everything else.

Bolshi: Sorry, just got back to this thread and and would have suggested admin and admin which are the factory defaults on Netgear routers. Lot of use that is to you now!

greekman: Enter a monastery. You can maintain your current sexual orientation (not that it'll be any use to you), you will not need money or possessions, and, if you opt for the Trappists, you can have blissful silence. Make a nice change after two women giving you grief.

Haystack, MightyMicro,

Thanks for that if I decide on Haystacks advice I will get back to you. If it's MM's advice I will have taken the vow of silence so I won't. MM's advice is looking the best bet,They Brew Beer!

Hope it at least cheered people up at the end of a grotty week. And they call this summer.

They don't actually, they call it spring :-))

Not summer. Not spring. This is 'Monsoon' season!

I have a bucket at the back of the house, which was empty Tuesday. It has 10" of rain-water in it this morning.

The locals around here are forecasting Locusts next week and a plaugue of boils in early July.

This is a long shot but it's confusing the hell out of me.

Got one of those digital frames - a Kodak wireless one which doesn't seem to want to play. I've set it up to recognise my wireless network - which it does - the router at least - but then it doesn't seem to want to recognise the PC on which the photos are based. I've also set the PC up with a wireless home network - which I assumed would get around that - but it doesn't seem to find that when scanning. Both are WEP secure and I've entered the router WEP code which it has accepted. The PC home network doesn't give me the option because it doesn't appear on the scan.

I appreciate that this is a bit product specific but as I said - really confusing me because logic suggests that I've done all the necessary and it doesn't seem to do what it says on the tin. I haven't rung Kodak support yet but will if noone has any ideas - I just hate ringing help lines - takes ages to get through and then you usually get some numptie at the other end.

Any help appreciated.

mg

mg, the kodak thing may need sharing to be enabled in order to see the photos. Have a look in the manual and see if its says anything about sharing or security.

You may just need to make the photo folder sharable.

Spacie
That's the other illogical thing. The manual tells me to download Windows Media 11 and share it - which I have - and the icon is there to say it is seeing it - but no joy.

Thanks for the answer though

MG

Can you see the photos on your computer in media player?

Optimist
Yes.

Think I've solved it - had been fiddling about with my network access and had not indicated that access the internet through a residential gateway - now changed that and the bloody thing is accessing the photos.

Sorry to have been an arse.

mg (hanging head in shame)