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Hope everyone is well. I havent been here in awhile. The new setup looks nice!
Here is my deal. I was trying to set up a wireless network for my parents. They have a desktop with XP Pro and a new Dell Inspiron 8200(laptop) with XP Home. With the laptop they bought a Dell 1170 Wireless network setup. The laptop has the 1150 wirelss in it. My understanding is that the 1170 is acting basically as a router, maybe. The connection goes like this. Cable to Cable Modem. Modem to 1170. The 1170 send a signal to the Inspiron, as well it has a LAN port and an Ethernet cable goes from the 1170 to the desktop. I FINALLY got the two computers to be able to ping each other and see each other in the My Network its just that now neither one will access the internet. So I am assuming I have a configuration wrong in the 1170.
Am I supposed to assign the 1170 with an IP of like 192.168.2.1 (which seems to be a default one for configuring it)? When I manually configured it, I gave it the IP that my parents ISP gave them. The 1170 has DHCP so it assigned the other two IPs of 192.168.2.2 and 2.3
I hope this makes sense to someone and someone maybe has a clue as to what I can do to get them to access the internet.
Thanks!
Here is my deal. I was trying to set up a wireless network for my parents. They have a desktop with XP Pro and a new Dell Inspiron 8200(laptop) with XP Home. With the laptop they bought a Dell 1170 Wireless network setup. The laptop has the 1150 wirelss in it. My understanding is that the 1170 is acting basically as a router, maybe. The connection goes like this. Cable to Cable Modem. Modem to 1170. The 1170 send a signal to the Inspiron, as well it has a LAN port and an Ethernet cable goes from the 1170 to the desktop. I FINALLY got the two computers to be able to ping each other and see each other in the My Network its just that now neither one will access the internet. So I am assuming I have a configuration wrong in the 1170.
Am I supposed to assign the 1170 with an IP of like 192.168.2.1 (which seems to be a default one for configuring it)? When I manually configured it, I gave it the IP that my parents ISP gave them. The 1170 has DHCP so it assigned the other two IPs of 192.168.2.2 and 2.3
I hope this makes sense to someone and someone maybe has a clue as to what I can do to get them to access the internet.
Thanks!