Being well experienced in building/upgrading/repairing my own PCs I thought home networking would be easy.......how wrong I was ! I have 3 machines in different rooms, all running XP sp3 and an HP laser printer, all wired to a 4 port router. I had no trouble networking the printer using the HP network install software, it works fine from any of the 3 computers. The problem is that after...

I bought one of these eBay item #390167366953 Maybe I was naive but I expected this to contain a chip that did the conversion. I plugged it in to a network and/or a Serial port but neither was recognised. No driver disk was supplied, and I note that the DB9 has the Cisco Systems Logo on it. The DB9 is moulded on so access without destroying it is not possible.Any constructive suggestions as...

I was setting up shared printing on a network with one XP PC (which shared the printer attached to it) and two Vista PCs (one Home Basic, the other Home Premium) which are configured to access this shared printer. The router was a Linksys WAG54G. The Home Premium PC could access the XP PC by its hostname, both for pings and for net view, whereas the Home Basic PC could not resolve the...

Can anyone recommend a decent adsl wifi router with a built in USB print server? Preferably one that doesn't overheat?

I want to upgrade my DG834G v2 from 3.01.25 to 3.01.38, but will I lose all my settings? Hours of work needed to set up all the firwall rules etc if I do lose them... Any Thoughts? Thank a lot

I have 2 wireless routers, a Netgear DG834PN modem/router on a BT line and a Netgear WGR614 router on a VirginMedia cable service. The DG834PN uses address 192.168.0.1 and all connected devices have fixed IP's The WGR614 uses address 192.168.1.1 and the only device connected at the moment, a laptop, is given a dynamic IP. The laptop needs to be able to see the other network via the WGR614...

When using advanced file sharing on an XP (pro) network, does a remote user need to also have a user account on the computer they want to access? -- Kind regards, Geoff Mills --- news://freenews.netfront.net/ - complaints: ---

Firmware upgrade went wrong, read through forums and seen about the tiupgrade.exe method. Found this file but when I run it it goes through to the 'please power up the router'. and it hangs. Using the corrupted image mode, can't access it through the IP number. I'm running Win 7 Is this the problem ?

I am looking to place (Ethernet) a Hard drive onto my router (BT HH2) for backups. Iomega and WD seem to be the forerunners but are there any other recommendations. I like making up my own USB HDD enclosures with drives. Is this an option for Ethernet enclosures. I don't want to run the backup software that comes with Iomega and WD units,

Does anyone know if Tiscali broadband connections block all access to news servers at certain times of day? I get intermittent access to news.individual.net from Windows Mail (Vista 32) over my girlfriend's Tiscali connection whereas on my own PlusNet connection I can always get access. I've tried alternative ports 8119 and 80 (with server=port80.individual.net in the latter case). Even...

I have been helping a friend set up his 2wire BT router for his small business LAN. One computer has been set to allow incoming VNC connections but I would like to restrict all other traffic in and out but I cannot see how to restrict outgoing ports. It seems to be able to restrict outgoing traffic to all computers but not individual computers.

Up 'til recently I have been running two desk top computers through ethernet connections and a netbook through wifi all networked through a 2wire 2700HGV hub. I have now moved the hub some distance away from the two desk tops to improve my DSL connection (been getting many dropped connections of late - so connection directly to the main 'phone socket is needed to improve this situation). ...

Hi, I recently got my demoted Belkin router to work as a switch on my LAN, thanks to the advice given here. With DHCP off and a fixed IP address, the switch functions ok, except that from switch power-up it takes almost a half hour before I can get the 2 PCs on the other side of it to join the network. Once available, initial access to shared folders on the LAN requires an unusually long wait...

My girlfriend's ADSL connection (Tiscali, using a Netgear DG834PN router) gradually syncs at a slower and slower speed if the router is rebooted and then left for a couple of days. After a reboot, it gets around 2500-3500 kbps. Over the course of several days, if I check the router's stats, the sync speed falls gradually: on one occasion it might be 1500, on another 1000. The worst case is...

Hi, I've been running my home LAN of 5 PCs for several years. My wife and daughter have been the only regular users other than myself, so we've all had 'computer administrator accounts' and the 'Sharing and Security' settings on all the drives have been set to 'Allow network users to change my files'. All very easy and functional. Now the grand-kids are reaching the age where they want their...

My wife has a laptop which four times out of five connects wirelessly to the our router. Every now and then it fails to connect fully i.e. it detects a network but does not connect. I have just realised what is happening; it is finding someone elses network which, because it is secure, cannot connect. How can I force it to pick up our router, I know I can search for networks, select and...

Normally I can access my sons PC and he mine via our home network. Using a wireless router. He's on XP Home, me Vista. It's just stopped working. Both computers show when I open the networking icon. I now get the message Windows cannot access computer X, check the spelling of the name, otherwise there might be a problem with the network. Both are in same network and connect to the internet...

Any suggestions for a wifi ADSL Modem router with decent USB printer support? Absolutely no Belkins though. -- Conor www.notebooks-r-us.co.uk

I've had a network running for a couple of years using these HomePlug devices as well has Cat5 and wireless. Recently the computer in the Garage was unable to connect to the network. I swopped devices about but have been unable to get this computer to connect. This week the computer in one of the bedrooms has shown the same fault. After some more testing it seems that computers on the same...

Apologies if this isn't the best group (I'm open to suggestions) but my daughter has an odd problem with her laptop. About every 15 minutes or so her browser stops working. Doesn't matter which browser she chooses, she can't access the internet with any of them. The only way she's found to restore the connection is a full reboot (log off & on again doesn't work). Whilst this is going on...