Wireless Networking

Suicide Junkie · #1 April 11th, 2006, 08:49 PM

Well, check the accessibility settings. There's usually a magnifier in there you can use.
Alternatively, you can reduce the desktop resolution to 800x600 say, and get the correspondingly jumbo pixels.

The settings on the router to look into:
- Broadcasting the SSID? You can turn this off after you get connected, and the laptop knows to look for it.
- Filtering connections? Might have to add the wireless' MAC to your allowed list.

Atrocities · #2 April 11th, 2006, 08:57 PM

Any idea of how I might check to see if it is set to broad cast? I have an actiontec DSL gateway. I have no idea if it is even set up to broadcast or not. The mode it is in is PPPoA.

That is about as much info as I have other than the lan info and dchp is on.

thanks guys.

Suicide Junkie · #3 April 11th, 2006, 09:00 PM

Well, that's the trick...

Have you got a computer with an ethernet connection handy?
Plug that in, and have the computer browse to 192.168.1.1, which should be the default address of the router.

It should ask for a password (see router documentation), and then let you in to poke the setup.

Atrocities · #4 April 11th, 2006, 09:02 PM

Ok, I found that wireless is off. Now how do I turn it on.... That is the $$ question.

Suicide Junkie · #5 April 11th, 2006, 09:14 PM

Probably just an option button or a dropdown with Enable/Disable