You are here: Home | Forum | Wireless router on Virgin Media Broadband
You are currently viewing our boards as a guest which gives you limited access to view most of the discussions, articles and other free features. By joining our Virgin Media community you will have full access to all discussions, be able to view and post threads, communicate privately with other members (PM), respond to polls, upload your own images/photos, and access many other special features. Registration is fast, simple and absolutely free so please join our community today.
I am very newbie on Virgin Media cable Broadband. I have bought which a Belkin G+ MIMO router and thought I would be able to connect it direct to my broadband cable and be able to use my laptop (with built in wireless networking) as my only computer anywhere in the house. However the connections and cales supplied with the unit seem to require that the router is connected by cable to a desktop which then broadcasts to the laptop. I have connected it to a laptop and checked that the internet connection works on it. I can't now manage to set up the laptop (on XP) to recognise the wireless network
Two questions:
1: Am I asking the impossible to connect the router to my broadband cable without a computer connection?
2: How do I set about configuring my laptop to be able to connect to the router? The wizard always ends up saying there is no wireless network available.
2. Make sure that the router has its wireless enabled. Some routers come with the wireless turned off as standard. Go into the admin page of the router ( 192.168.2.1) and have a look. I have the similar router, but can't remember if the wireless was on or off when I first set it up lol
Join CF
You are here: 
