Realize this: When you initially make contact with the ADSL Router via the Network Cable, the Router will not let you in no Sir....... Oh yes indeed... You must Enter both a user name and password. The Router will probably expect the user name to be admin and the password to be password. These are both case sensitive so do use all lowercase.

You Must Know the Login and Password for the Broadband Connection to your ISP (Internet Service Provider) -- this is the login and password used in the basic settings of the router to connect to the broadband. DO NOT confuse this with the user name and password used to get to the Routers own set up page (See text above the horizontal line above)!

In the box with the Router is the NETGEAR Installation guide, and this is a small piece of paper, but it tells you the address for the Router under instruction 2. the address will be something like

http://192.168.0.1

Just look it up in the NETGEAR Installation Guide to see what the address is exactly.Once you are looking at the Router screen, you need of course to make sure that you set the country and language first, clearly this is UK for country and English for you and I. You will only do this once and will be presented with the opportunity to do so as soon as you connect to the Router.

Setting the Basic Settings

The Basic settings will of course depend upon the actual ISP you are using, but if you do not know what they are then, either find all the paper work you were sent when you set up the broadband connection and read it to find out or ring up the ISP and ask then directly.

for Tiscal Broadband the settings are as follows:

The Wireless Settings

Here You will set the SSID, The Channel the Region and the mode. In practice you will leave most of these alone but remember: If you change the Channel from 11 (which is the default) you must change the channel on all the wireless cards that are in all the computers you wish to connect to this Router, so it it easier to leave on 11 and most wireless card come set on channel 11 in practice so, no problems here!

Leave Mode set on G and B for most installations, set region to Europe, but it will be anyway so just leave it alone.

You definitely should change the SSID to something that is not the default Netgear, you must change the SSID that you pc's and laptops are looking for where the router is.... obviously to the same!!!

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