cant connect to internet (wireless

[delboy81]

Hi, i have got a laptop but cant get my wireless to connect

got tiscali broadband and netgear router, i'm been trying for hours but cant get anywhere

please help before i go insane

[CheekyChops]

Have you installed the Tiscali software on your laptop?

[pianoman81]

delboy81 - i too use tiscali- (im sorry to say)
whatever you do do not call the helplines they are quite simply- morons.

anyway- i got every single wireless router available- linksys, belkin etc etc and could not get any of them to work with tiscali- something about the modem supplied by tiscali- there are not enough ports.

it will drive you absolutely mental.

me and my girlfreind use the internet in the living room- we both have laptops-
what we have had to do in order to use the internet at the same time is-
tiscali installed on both laptops- but the modem only installed on the one laptop (the speedtouch thing)

the computer with everything installed is referred to as the main one-

the main one turns on and connects to the internet , turn off its firewall- then connect the 2 laptops via a networking cable- sadly its not wireless but the network cables are available up to about 7 metres long -
this is a hard way to do it and annoying and defeats the object of being wireless- but it is the onlyway i have found in order for them both to be online simultaneously.

my main advice,
serve out the 12 month contract with tiscali, then sack them and go elsewhere- aol / bt/ sky etc but whatever you do, do not call them as they dont know a single thing-
the so called technical department know absolutely f### all.
and will just cost you time and cost of phone call- they are pure idiots and i think , inbred.

[Kerplunk]

Pianoman81, Network (Cat5) cables can be up to 100m in length not just 7m.

[CheekyChops]

I have Tiscali wireless broadbank with a laptop and a desktop connected. I have a D-Link router which also replaced the modem.

My desktop PC was already using Tiscali broadband (wired) before I got the laptop and router.

I had to set up the router on my desktop PC which I did with the ethernet cable. Once it was working and connecting to the internet ok, I removed the cable and used it wirelessly (with a usb dongle).

Then I installed the Tiscali broadband software on my Laptop and then the router software. Hey presto it connected.

I have none of the problems mentioned by pianoman81, I am able to use my laptop and desktop at the same time without wires and without disabling firewalls etc.

I do agree about their helplines though, don't bother ringing them they are cr*p!

[pianoman81]

wow kerplunk- didnt mean to step on your toes......

100 metres then,
jeez .

kerplunk must work in the factory that makes the cables

[knobbynonuts]

dont even mention the word tiscali to me grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr crap

[dave1969]

not all wireless will work on all companys internet bt wont work on ntl/virgin

[Kerplunk]

No pianoman81 I don't, but when giving advice to someone it is nice to be factually correct.

[pianoman81]

kerplunk-
it was an opinion-
get back to your internet dating in youir mothers basement.

[Kerplunk]

lol

[Ricky martin]

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WAN networking

[Ricky martin]

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