Oh.. I found that I had to put the necessary TCP/IP data in the workshop PC (XP Pro) to get it to display the internet..
I think the gateway (Dlink 192.168.0.1 ) was most important but until I included a primary DNS it didn't work..
Just adding this info for anyone wanting to employ the same...
Thanks Mate! worked like a charm.. that change to "2" at the end of the IP address was agreeable to the system.. all working nicely.. Oh, I had disabled DHCP as it seemed necessary.
Appreciate your advice.
:-)
I have a Neatgear ADSL wireless modem router DG834G that does a poor job on ADSL. I also have a Dlink DSL504 modem/router (no wireless) that does a great job. I only need occasional use of the wireless connection to my workshop so the occasional dropouts and poor connection speed would not be...
I'll make sure he checks for that 3rd wire.. The cable behind the wall was 4 strand with only 2 connected, as you would expect..
All's fine now..Thanks for your advice
Thanks once again Roger..
What you say is very indicative to the problem.. It might also answer why we get spasmodic audio interference on our voice phones from time to time.. I haven't thought to check it since but when it was bad ( my wife would let me know ;-) )I found if I removed the line...
Thanks Roger..better late..etc... but even though I've fixe db the problem it s still good to get your suggestions.
While our external line may be a bit flukey at times we live in a typical inner city suburban enviroment with no manufacturing within 2 kms..
We certainly DO have the older type...
Hard to know where to start on this one, so please bear with me and ask for details on anything you want.
I'm on a 1500 ADSL1 connection over a standard suburban copper wire service. Appararantly my home is at the edge of the useful distance from the telephone exchange.
My problem is, even...
This new printer is ethernet connected to a ADSL Modem/router. I just followed the instructions and the ibstallation software did the rest. However, after I reboot the printer is seen only as "offline" and the only way I've found to ge tit back is uninstall/reinstall. I've looked at the port and...
Using Vista Home Premium I have a 250gig HDD partitioned into 170gig as the active boot drive and the remainder as a data drive.
I need to increase the size of the boot drive and would like to just use all the space of the data partition.
However, after removing all data from the data drive I...
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