wireless thr#ough a cable modem

[azubairi]

Big time problems. I volunteered to help a friend set up their own wireless network just having set up my own. However the one crucial difference is they opted to get their ADSL via Blueyonder Cable. I got them to buy all the belkin kit including wireless modem and network cards for each of the three PC's. I then registered the mac addresses of the wireless router, cable modem and individual PC cards with Blueyonder as the technician told me. This however only allows one computer to access the internet at any one time. Does anyone know how I can set up each pc to access the internet via the wireless modem i.e. TCP/IP configs. I'm in well over my head - pleeeeeeease

[g4t3k33p0r]

I could be wrong, but I believe that all you really needed to do is report only the MAC addresses of the modem and ONE computer to Blueyonder. Those will be the only MAC addresses they will see once you get things going, even after setting up the router plus any other number of clients that will connect to this router. They will all use one MAC address: the cable modem's.

At my place of employment, we also have a wireless network set up. The cable provider has only one MAC address of ours: the cable modem. This allows us to move the connection to any computer in our network. All computers can access the internet at the same time wirelessly. In fact, I have also set up the wireless router without having to report its MAC address. This was three months ago and we have had no problems with the cable company whatsoever.

As far as a solution goes, you may be able to get this....CHANGE the MAC addresses of the client computers. The cable company knows of those cards and can control access accordingly. So, you can possibly exchange those cards for new ones or re-configure the cards so that their MAC addresses are different.

[azubairi]

Cheers for that. Do you know how I go configuring in win XP to set each pc to use the wireless modem as the default gateway - As you can guess I'm pretty useless at this networking malarchy. Cheers again

[Greenstead]

I think the blueyonder technician confused things.

Blueyonder let you connect up to 5 different PCs to the modem (one at a time) and to do so you have to tell them the MAC address of each PC. But this is for people without a router. When you use a modem and router you tell Blueyonder the MAC addresses of the Modem and router (WAN port MAC address) only. All Blue yonder ever see is the router irrespective of how many PCs you connect to it.

The wireless router and Windows XP is designed to configure itself if you leave everything at the default settings after installation. If you have been changing the wireless NIC settings the easiest way to reset is to go to device manager and unistall the driver, and reboot. XP will reinstall a fresh driver with defaults. The route should have a small button on it to reset to defaults.