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Hi,

It's my first thread here in this forum and I'd like someone to help me out, I just moved to International City and I got my broadband from Du (no choice), as some of u guys know that with Du (International City in particular) u don't get a modem or anything, they will activate a socket in your wall and they will give u a standard cable (LAN cable) which is fine if u have on DESKTOP PC AND YOU LIVE IN THE 90S, because nowadays everyone uses wireless (wake up Du) anyways I've asked the Du guy if it will be possible to get a wireless router to work on their network and he said yes so I went and bought a Linksys WRT54G wireless broadband router and since yesterday I can't get it to work, I don't know if it's me or my laptop or something that Du has done to prevent it (in order to get more money activating other sockets), my question is has anyone one here managed to setup a broadband wireless router on Du networks (International City) and how?
Any help is highly appreciated.

Cheers,

Welcome to the forums, I’m not in International city but am a DU customer (like you no choice) and have that exact router, WRT54G and run wireless at our place.

Just to confirm you’re saying that your laptop works fine with the lan cable plugged into it but when you stick the lan wire into the socket on the furthest left of the router that says internet it doesn’t work?

If this is the case I doubt it has anything to do with DU but rather the security or config of your router, sign into your router and check maybe you have mac filtering or some other type of security enabled that is causing you grief?

fayz wrote:Welcome to the forums, I’m not in International city but am a DU customer (like you no choice) and have that exact router, WRT54G and run wireless at our place.

Just to confirm you’re saying that your laptop works fine with the lan cable plugged into it but when you stick the lan wire into the socket on the furthest left of the router that says internet it doesn’t work?

If this is the case I doubt it has anything to do with DU but rather the security or config of your router, sign into your router and check maybe you have mac filtering or some other type of security enabled that is causing you grief?

Thanks for the reply, I'm kinda a n00b when it comes to routers, would u guide me through configuration or perhaps take a screenshot of ur configurations and post it here?
when i directly but the lan cable from socket to laptop, it works just fine, but when i put it into the router and then try to access the net either wirelessly or through the provided vable it just doesn't work, I've already configured my router to DHCP automatic setting and thats about it, is there any extra configurtions i should put there?

Thanks in advance

nevermind guys, it's working now.

Hi Sozon

I am in the same boat and dont know what to do.
Now that you have figured it out can you please , please post what you did or send me an email on tshaikh@altayer.com to see if i can do the same
Thanks

Hi Sozon
How did you get it working. Am in Int'l City too, what router should I pick up to work with DU

posted by sozon » Sat Oct 13, 2007 3:58 am

Hi , sozon i guess you have found out solution to your problem now, can you please share with me as well, as I am also facing the same problem. would be highly grateful to you if you can mail all steps to me at kopal.saxena01@gmail.com thanks