How do I set up my wireless router when my internet comes through a ethernet cable?

Question

Okay, so I live in university accomodation which means that my building is hardwired with internet through ethernet cables, i.e. a ethernet cable runs from my wall to my computer (not a phone line). But now, I am trying to set up a wireless router and I don't know what to do. It tells me to plug my ADSL phone line into the router, but that's not where my internet comes from. Is there a way around this? I don't know if the phone in my room is set up for internet or whatever.

I bought an ADSL Modem with Wireless-G Router (Belkin - model # F5D7632-4). Is that even the right one? Please help :(

Answer 1

You don't need the modem part of that hardware. You might try contacting the vendor but I believe you should take it back and just get a wireless router.



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Answer 2

No, you did not purchase the correct device. You purchased a so-called modem router, which includes a modem and a router. You simply need a wireless router without a modem. On this router, you plug the network cable in the WAN port and you can use the other ports to connect computers via network cables and if the router is wireless as well, you can connect computers wirelessly too. You also purchased a wireless "G" router, where the letter "G" stands for the wireless 802.11g standard. Since then there is also the wireless "N" standard, knowing 802.11n. Wireless "N" has a great range and supports higher wireless speeds. Keep in mind that wireless standards are backwards compatible, so "N" works with "G", "B" and "A". For getting the best possible wireless speeds, you will need to have a wireless network adapter in your computer which supports wireless "N" as well. Wireless "G" would function due to the backward compatibility, but you will not profit from your wireless "N" router in that case.

Answer 3

If I am not mistaken, all wireless routers take an Ethernet connection (RJ-45) as an input. For ADSL, the phone connection goes in as an input to the ADSL modem and the output of the modem is Ethernet (RJ-45).

The direction to plug the ADSL phone line into the router is incorrect.

In your case, just take the building ethernet cable an plug it into your router (Ethernet input). You should not have a problem.

Answer 4

you take the wire that comes out of the wall and plug it into the Ethernet jack on the back of your router. then you run the other cable (that should have came with your router) and plug that into the Ethernet jack on the back of your desktop and install the software that came with the router on your machine. If you are setting this up for a laptop then simply plug the wire that comes out of the wall into the back of the router only and then plug in the wireless adapter associated with the router into your laptop and install the software that came with the router to configure your adapter. The adapter is a small device that looks like a thumb drive and has a USB plug on one end. It is used to allow your computer to receive the signal coming from the router.

Answer 5

First see what IP, netmask, gateway, and nameserver(s) you get when your computer is connected like it was in the past. If you manually set any of that, you would need to set the same settings for the WAN of the Linksys router. If you formerly got IP and everything automatically, you should set the WAN of the Linksys to automatic or DHCP Set your computer to get IP address and everything automatically. The Linksys router will handle that. Then make sure that the LAN side of the Linksys router does not use the same network. If the numbers before the 3rd dot in the IP address you had before match the first 3 numbers in the default LAN network on the Linksys, change the 3rd number of the Linksys LAN IP to some other number between 0 and 255. After saving the change, you will either need to renew your IP or reboot to automatically get an IP in the new IP range. Then everything should just work. Although, if you need port forwarding for something, how easy or difficult that is may depend whether the router WAN ends up with a public IP or private IP address.

Answer 6

Unplug the ethernet connection from your computer and plug it to the router

then using(another) ethernet wire connect your computer to the router

Answer 7

To connect the wireless router your computer should be wireless compatible.



Then you can setup the router software in the computer and you have to connect the cable to the router.



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