Ruined my Internet connection

[roweenie]

Hi everyone,

I'm new to this forum, and I'm kind of a tech-challenged individual, so here's my problem:

I ran an ethernet cable out to my workshop from the main house - the one end of the cable was connected in the house to a wireless router, the other end in the workshop to my computer, via ethernet cable. Everything worked great.

Then, I tried to add a second wireless router in my workshop, using the directions that came with the router. Not only did it not work, but now my broadband will also not work. I get an error message saying there is no cable connected, or it's broken. I know this is wrong, because before I tried this, it worked just fine.

I hope I didn't break my computer!

Does anyone know how to:

A: tell me how to restore my broadband connection

B: hook up this router so it wll work, or

C: all of the above.

Thank you!!!!!

Bob

 

[DelJo63]

First, disconnect the new wireless and verify the original PC in the workshop is ok.

Now prepare the new Wifi router like this;

• disconnect all wires from it
• connect one cable from any LAN slot to a PC (and don't have that pc connected to anything else while doing this setup)
• on the pc, open your browser and as a URL, enter the IP ADDRESS of the WiFi device(A)
• you will get a prompt for user/password(A)
• find the LAN setup tab
• disable the DHCP service
• (while you are here ...)
• create a SSID that you will recognize when attempting to connect wirelessly
• you should also enable and create encryption phrase (WPA2 would be best, WEP is least acceptable)
• disable REMOTE management and port 8080
• set a new login password (write it down!!!)
• save the settings and the router should restart and force you attempt a login (ignore it as you are done)

(A) the IP Address and user-id/password are specific to you router - - specify the make/model number of yours please

Once you reach this point, you're ready to rewire;

Take a cable from the older router(lan) and run it to a (Lan)slot on the new router.

All systems will now be assigned IP addresses using the original router and all WiFi connections will use the
encrypted connection to the new router.