Diehard Posted June 18, 2007 CID Share Posted June 18, 2007 I have A friend on AOL9 (dont' laugh) But he is having a problem trying to set up his WiFI connection between His laptop and router Laptop is Vista, Desktop is XP which works fine both are WIFI compatiable but desktop using RJ45 AOL have said that their Broadband connection is not WiFI compatible with Vista any body having the same problem and if so have you managed to cure it if so How ? As you can see we have tried both sorts of router as i Have The GT and he has the G Connection from DG845G is via Ethernet from modem to PC DG845GT is connected to modem then to PC all by ethernet Any Ideas we can try Thanks in advance Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inmate717 Posted June 19, 2007 CID Share Posted June 19, 2007 I hate AOL as much as the next guy but I promise to try and help and not AOL bash. First is the router setup for DHCP? Second unplug the ethernet cable and as silly as it sounds make sure that the WIFI adapter is on on the laptop. Third from the desktop turn off all encryption WEP WPA etc from within the router (for Now we will turn them on later ) and make sure your SSID is visible Fourth make sure that there is not MAC address filtering enabled on the router Fifth restart the computer Sixth scan for wireless networks and try to connect to yours If you connect try step 7 Seventh disable the wired Ethernet adapter this will make certain that AOL tries to use the WIFI Eighth Have AOL rescan for available ways to connect it should pick up that you have broadband I hope this helps if not PM me and Ill do my best I have a dual boot lappy with Vista and XP and ill install aol to help if i have to it needs a format anyway Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wizard33040 Posted June 19, 2007 CID Share Posted June 19, 2007 you might want to set the dns servers to opendns.com's settings dns1 = 208.67.220.220 dns2 = 208.67.222.222 and not auto get from isp also encrypt off - until you get all connected and working Aol - yuck NetStumbler may help to to see what rf chan is not in use good luck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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