WiFi Setup

[Tamianth]

by 1-C on Mon Jul 21, 2014 11:41 am
Ah hah... that may be it!

One of the places I searched to see if I could find any answers did mention the win 7 settings ...

Here:

http://superuser.com/questions/434159/v ... ired-is-ok

See if that helps, BigA. It should still be able to work with Win 7 though ...

[Tamianth]

by Slim on Mon Jul 21, 2014 11:51 am
More info here:
http://support.linksys.com/en-us/suppor ... G/download

and here:
http://pcsupport.about.com/od/linksys-d ... ssword.htm

[Tamianth]

by BigA on Mon Jul 21, 2014 11:59 am
Long story short the girl from linksys support says that I need a firmware upgrade and there isn't one for this router because it is 6 years old. So she wants to sell me the "top of the line" router at a discounted price of 79.99. Got all flustered when i said i would think about it and then call back. I am just going to go out and get a new one and be done with it. Probably not a linksys though. Thanks for trying to help.

[Tamianth]

by Slim on Mon Jul 21, 2014 12:12 pm
My linksys is also quite old. Model WRT-54G V8. It is using firmware version 8.00.8
Works fine on XP and Windows 7
Communicates well with my other wireless devices

This might be helpful:
http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2009/06/how ... -firmware/

http://support.linksys.com/en-us/support/routers/WRT54G

If you have a "model V8", but a firmware version older than 8.00.8, and if lynksys does not have a firmware download for you, contact me by PM.

[Tamianth]

by CelticDragon on Mon Jul 21, 2014 1:30 pm
BigA, go with Netgear-that is what mine is at my place. The page you go to is easy to understand (at least for changing stuff). Mine's the N600-though you want something that will work for you-my best friend helped me choose mine because I don't know much about the technology and what everything means and I'm happy with it. (Here's what it looks like: http://www.staples.com/NETGEAR-N600-Dua ... uct_886778 )

[Tamianth]

by BigA on Mon Jul 21, 2014 3:29 pm
Ok, thanks CD my local staples has it and they will beat Amazon by 10% to boot so I can't go wrong.

Funny Best buy wants $129 and no price match. Oh well their loss.

If I can't get this one working after what Slim has sent me then out in the trash it goes.

[Tamianth]

by Tamianth on Mon Jul 21, 2014 3:51 pm
I was going to say Netgear also! All I had to do was hook it up, everything works off it ok. I got the middle model though since its a two story house. But Miranda has a Ipad type device, her laptop upstairs, my Blue ray is wifi updates. Didn't have to do anything short of hook it up.

[Tamianth]

by 1-C on Mon Jul 21, 2014 4:06 pm
BigA, sounds like you did right after CD's (and Tami's ) suggestions ... a short while ago on the dslreports forum I read that Belkin bought out the Linksys routers

Here's the link, just in case interested:

http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r290261 ... -firmware-

[Tamianth]

by BigA on Mon Jul 21, 2014 4:21 pm
Well here is the interesting thing, she kept me on the line for quite a while before springing on me that there was no upgrade. Next thing she wants to sell me a new router and give me a great price. She said it listed for $89.99 but she would give it to me for $79.99 plus free 2 day shipping. Then she got upset and didn't want to give me the ticket number when I told her I wanted to think it over (price shop). She finally gave me the ticket number and I told her adios. The router she quoted me on sells for $57.00 on Amazon, and Best Buy will price match that, Staples will price match less 10%. So I would have really been taken if I had bought it right then and there.
I had a Belkin USB hub once that stopped working when I switched to W 7. Took me over a month with CSRs sending me replacements to find out the hub would not work at all with W7. They did give me all my money back though, but I am not so sure about Belkin anymore either. If CD says to try this because it works good for her then I will.

And if it doesn't work, I know who to yell at (wink, wink)

[Tamianth]

by Tamianth on Mon Jul 21, 2014 4:59 pm
When I got my netgear, there was 3 models, Think I gave 80 for it on sale @ Best Buy. I've had it 3 years now, no problems. But mine is hooked to sat to the main computer. Everything else is run off the wifi. My netbook is win 7, Miranda's laptop is 8.1