UnDyingUK Posted April 22, 2004 Report Share Posted April 22, 2004 As the title suggests............... ........... Right, today i tried to install my new shiny Belkin 4-Port Cable/DSL Gateway Router. I have now got an internet connection to my desktop through the router (whether i can play any games through it is anyones guess) But, i am unable to get a internet connection to the wifes laptop via the router, i found on the Belkin homepage info that said to connect another computer to my router i just had to turn off both computers and turn off the router and my modem, then connect both computers to the router and connect the router to the modem, then power up everything and it will be done, BUT, all this did for me is remove the connection to everything so now i have 2 computers connected and no internet connection, but if i disconnect the laptop from the router then restart everything then i get my desktop connection back. This is reall frustrating. I have a cross over cable between the laptop and the router, is this correct cable type? Its what i had b4 the router Any ideas would be useful (on topic please) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.TuG.Benny Posted April 22, 2004 Report Share Posted April 22, 2004 If your TS works, I'm on the TUG TS. I'll talk you through the config! If no post here and I'll PM you my phone no. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UnDyingUK Posted April 23, 2004 Author Report Share Posted April 23, 2004 thanks for last night Benny you were Wonderful, i'll post again if the solution works Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UnDyingUK Posted April 23, 2004 Author Report Share Posted April 23, 2004 Just connected the laptop to the router with a shiny new CAT6 Patch Cable, and the laptop is now connected to the internet. May I also say that the staff at PC World are F'ing useless, i asked a guy in the store which cable i should get, and he told me it didnt matter as they were all the same. And after 3 mins of looking at the cables i found that there were 3 differnent types, CAT6, FastCAT5e & Std CAT5e, CAT 6 being the one i was looking for anyway, because that was the one Belkin website suggested i use, + there were about 4 different lengths and different colours to choose from. Which kinda proves if i had no idea what i was looking for i could well have walked away with the wrong cable as the cheapest cable the Std CAT5e is only good for file sharing and cannot handle the broadband use that i wanted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.TuG.Bulldog Posted April 23, 2004 Report Share Posted April 23, 2004 One of the PC world staff pictured below .... hard! at work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.TuG.Beaver Posted April 23, 2004 Report Share Posted April 23, 2004 lmao Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tantalus Posted April 23, 2004 Report Share Posted April 23, 2004 Originally posted by TUG_UndyingUK@Apr 23 2004, 04:04 PMJust connected... with a shiny new CAT6 Patch Cable... CAT6! Jeez! You must be going some! I normally use Cat 5e, which has always been more than adequate; stand-fast my US military buddies on a 'Cray Fibre-optic circular network configuration' ! For the Techies amongst us here is a breakdown of current UTP cable specifications for when it goes quiet in 'The snug' and you need something to get the conversation going again!? Category....Maximum Data Rate...Usual Application CAT 1.........Less than 1 Mbps.......Analog voice (POTS) .................................................Integrated Services Digital Network .................................................Basic Rate Interface in ISDN .................................................Doorbell wiring CAT 2.........4 Mbps.....................IBM Cabling Systems: Token ring networks CAT 3.........16 Mbps...................Voice and data on 10BASE-T Ethernet CAT 4.........20 Mbps...................16Mbps Token Ring Otherwise not used much CAT 5.........100 Mbps.................1000 Mbps (4 pair) ................................................100 Mbps TPDDI (100BASE-T or Fast Ethernet) ................................................155 Mbps ATM ................................................Gigabit Ethernet CAT 5E.......100 Mbps.................100 Mbps TPDDI (100BASE-T or Fast Ethernet) ................................................155 Mbps ATM CAT 6.........200-250 MHz............Super-fast Broadband Applications CAT 7.........600MHz+25%...........Outside RJ45 scope; New connector reqd. ..................(750MHz)..................To be included in rev2 of ISO 11801. Told you it was techie! (yawn) .. and SLEEP.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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