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More info?)
Adrian,
I think you have to get a different router which will accept the moem cable
and then the router wireless connects to the kids
John
"Adrian H" <AdrianH@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:2DB5887D-98BD-4DC0-AC2F-F28D910A0994@microsoft.com...
> John
> Thank you so much for trying to help. The issue is ..... I have an airial
> on the roof attached to my modem in the house (wireless connection) there
> is
> then another cable comming out of the modem into my pc. This cable is a
> USB
> cable and plugd in to the back of the pc ~ USB input socket. Therefore
> unlike a traditional modem ~ my modem does not have an earthnet cable to
> plug
> directly in to the router. I have connected an earthnet cable from the
> back
> of the pc to the router!
> Adrian ~ hope this makes sense!
>
>> I am no expert at this and had trouble migrating from SP1 to SP2
>> particularly resolving Zone Alarm settings. It sounds as if you may have
>> your modem hooked up wrong.
>> If I read you correctly you have got your pc and your children's
>> computers
>> on a network through router and you have connected your internet modem to
>> the PC.
>> The PC can access the Internet but the children's pc's cannot.
>>
>> Now in practice the modem has got to be plugged into the router if both
>> the
>> wireless users and the workstation are all going to connect to the
>> internet.
>>
>> For example, first after disconnecting for the internet wall plug,
>> disable
>> your Antivirus, turn off the Windows Security Centre and set up like so:
>>
>> 1 ISP Cable Broadband Input -Cable Modem- Wireless Router
>> 2 Router -USB Cable- Ethernet Card in WorkStation
>> 3 Other computers have D-Link wireless cards plugged in
>> 4 Router is configured dynamically get ISP DNS
>> 5 Zone Alarm shows Network 192.1680.0/255.255.255.0 Internet Zone
>> .................................Wireless 192.168.0.1-192.168.0.254
>> Trusted
>> Zone
>> Then assuming you have locked down the MAC on your home network with a
>> secure password enable NAV, enable ZA and reconnect the modem to the
>> internet wall plug.
>> If you can connect from your PC to the children but not the internet and
>> you
>> do NOT see your ISP in Control panel\Network Connections but can see the
>> wireless connections then likely you have a faulty router.
>> John
>> "Adrian H" <Adrian H@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:4B278D85-D5A4-4BAB-8DB0-E45BEC6525B2@microsoft.com...
>> > Hi hope anyone can help.
>> > I have purchased a D-link 802.11g airplus router g+ for a personal
>> > network
>> > between my daughter laptop and my sons stand alone and my stand alone
>> > pc.
>> > I
>> > have managed to connect my pcs together and now successfully share
>> > printers
>> > files in a secure network.
>> > However, i can not link up my network to the internet. I have a
>> > wireless
>> > internet link via a company called netbandit. They supplied me with a
>> > modem
>> > which connects to the back of PC through usb. The problem i have is
>> > that
>> > my
>> > pc (administrator) beleives the internet is a wireless connection and
>> > it
>> > means my new router is expecting an erthnet connection - and my pc is
>> > can
>> > not
>> > seem to link my wireless broadband with my wireless network.
>> > I hope this makes sense and look forward in receiving some feedback.
>> > Thanks Adrian
>>
>>
>>