Internet Troubles!!!

Sherri · #1 04-06-2007, 02:09 PM

Well, I'm just checking in here at the office, since I have NO INTERNET right now at home. Yes, I paid the bill. My son wanted to play some online video games with his friends, and I didn't want all the mess in my living room. So...I told him he had to buy something that would let him move all the stuff upstairs without a cable running a hundred feet through my house. So, he bought a router and something called a D-Link (???) and thought he had the problem solved. Now he and my nephew both have internet upstairs on their laptops, and I have NONE downstairs. He has called, D-Link, Bellsouth, and the router people. They all say it's the fault of one of the others. Aaagghhhh! I don't know what to do now.

Sorry for venting, but I miss my friends on here!!! Just wanted to hop on and say HI.

Ron · #2 04-06-2007, 02:10 PM

Hi Sherri,
Perhaps BOOM or some of the Techies on here could figure it out?

BoredOutOfMyMind · #3 04-06-2007, 02:12 PM

Sherri, if you have Bellsouth DSL, your router may need to be/not be set to Bridged mode. Which ever applies.

Dlink has website tutorials telling how to config it and they are probably on the install CD as well.

Felicity · #4 04-06-2007, 02:20 PM

We had a similar problem one time because we had 3 computers 1 desktop upstairs - laptop and desktop down stairs. If 2 were being used and the 3rd logged on it cut out one of the other two. My son came and made some adjustment to the router - nothing major.

Now we have 4 comps in the house. 2 desktop upstairs 1 desktop and laptop downstairs. And NO problems!

CC1 · #5 04-06-2007, 02:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Sherri

Well, I'm just checking in here at the office, since I have NO INTERNET right now at home. Yes, I paid the bill. My son wanted to play some online video games with his friends, and I didn't want all the mess in my living room. So...I told him he had to buy something that would let him move all the stuff upstairs without a cable running a hundred feet through my house. So, he bought a router and something called a D-Link (???) and thought he had the problem solved. Now he and my nephew both have internet upstairs on their laptops, and I have NONE downstairs. He has called, D-Link, Bellsouth, and the router people. They all say it's the fault of one of the others. Aaagghhhh! I don't know what to do now.

Sorry for venting, but I miss my friends on here!!! Just wanted to hop on and say HI.

Sounds like you installed a wireless router which is great when they work right. We have had one for years at our house. I have the router at my work desk so computers can be hard wired there but we have a wireless signal going throughout the house so from either my personal laptop or work laptop I have internet access anywhere in the house.

Sherri · #6 04-06-2007, 05:46 PM

All of this is like Greek to me!

Carpenter · #7 04-06-2007, 05:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Sherri

Well, I'm just checking in here at the office, since I have NO INTERNET right now at home. Yes, I paid the bill. My son wanted to play some online video games with his friends, and I didn't want all the mess in my living room. So...I told him he had to buy something that would let him move all the stuff upstairs without a cable running a hundred feet through my house. So, he bought a router and something called a D-Link (???) and thought he had the problem solved. Now he and my nephew both have internet upstairs on their laptops, and I have NONE downstairs. He has called, D-Link, Bellsouth, and the router people. They all say it's the fault of one of the others. Aaagghhhh! I don't know what to do now.

Sorry for venting, but I miss my friends on here!!! Just wanted to hop on and say HI.

Well, first you get that blue thing and the white thing together, put the other thinn into the little slot of the other deeley-bobber, then hit the switch, turn the screw, push the button...then...call someone else to fix it while you go enjoy a Chai.

BoredOutOfMyMind · #8 04-06-2007, 05:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Sherri

All of this is like Greek to me!

PM me a number

Actaeon · #9 04-06-2007, 05:51 PM

This is an easily fixed problem -- move your son's bed down to the dining room.

Praxeas · #10 04-06-2007, 06:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Sherri

Well, I'm just checking in here at the office, since I have NO INTERNET right now at home. Yes, I paid the bill. My son wanted to play some online video games with his friends, and I didn't want all the mess in my living room. So...I told him he had to buy something that would let him move all the stuff upstairs without a cable running a hundred feet through my house. So, he bought a router and something called a D-Link (???) and thought he had the problem solved. Now he and my nephew both have internet upstairs on their laptops, and I have NONE downstairs. He has called, D-Link, Bellsouth, and the router people. They all say it's the fault of one of the others. Aaagghhhh! I don't know what to do now.

Sorry for venting, but I miss my friends on here!!! Just wanted to hop on and say HI.

Dunno if anyhone else spoke up but D-link is a brand that makes rounters and wireless network cards. Is your PC downstairs networked directly to the modem?