Wireless router

[perose]

I have been given a wireless router which I need to install for when my Granddaughter visits with her laptop. Help please, do I just plug it in or is there more I need to do ? A neighbour said I have to be aware of other people logging into it !!??!!

[deggers316]

yes go into the routers settings and change the password for the router to something else, then when your daughters laptop picks the signal up she will have to put that password in,
it should be on the routers info how to do this

[perose]

Thanks deggers but I have no info with it !

[RATTER15]

Just plug it in, some will pick it up immediately and away you go, if you want to go wireless you may need the key which will probably be printed on the router case somewhere. Don't forget to enable the laptop to find the signal, turn on WiFi.

[daffy654]

http://www.ehow.com/h...router-beginners.html

This should help.

[ChuckFickens]

Not really enough information to start to advise (yet again!)

is it ADSL (broadband over your phone line) or cable?

If it's ADSL then firstly you'll need to make sure it's an ADSL router, providing it is then you'll need to go into the router setup pages and set your ADSL username and password as supplied by your ISP (normally same as your email address and password with them). once you've done that you can setup wireless security, but as you've not mentioned a single detail about the router it's not possible to give a clue on that!

If it's cable then it depends if it's a router with a built in cable modem or one that plugs into your existing modem, if the former you'll need to contact Virgin, if the later then just plug it in and then setup your wireless security.

[deggers316]

or just unplug your internet cable and use the cable link instead of wi -fi to her laptop