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Thanks for your effort. The WLAN is showing a 'Media Disconnected' and the LAN setting looks good.
If you have a spare laptop or desktop, can you plug in the USB wireless adapter and see if you're able to install it fine and connect?
Edit: Can I verify something? Is the Telstra Modem your device or your friend's? Is it a Gateway with Wi-Fi capable? Other wireless devices in your network able to connect to it?
Edit 2: I've found this manual for you on how to setup Telstra. According from this pdf manual provided by Bigbond, as Telstra is unable to provide router support, but the configuration should be similar. Please give it a try, it might help.
Last edited by 2xg; 23 Jun 2012 at 02:54.
Are we talking about the first ipconfig or the second one? Posting from two different machines tends to confuse things. Looks like the second one has the DWA-125.
You should unplug the Ethernet cable from that machine before trying to connect wirelessly as Windows 7 has a hard time connecting though both connections at the same time and tends to choose the wired connection when available.
The manual that 2XG posted should help with the wireless set up.
Sorry for late reply been "off sick"
Yep the second larger readout I couldn't find a way of removing the original pic.
Now the Ethernet cable is removed but the dongle I have since found out I had been putting in the wrong security code what I thought was a small o was in fact a 0 (zero) - not a very clear thing to read as the digits are small and the letters Caps.
Now the icon at bottom right of the screen is telling me the wireless device is connected and I can download Windows updates but it will not do a Google search.
The provider has asked me to try this device in another laptop which I will later - have got to dash to work right now if it works on my laptop then I have to go back to the machine and sort it out.
As previously suggested in Post# 12, yes definitely consider to install the USB DLink adapter to another computer. We'll find out if it's faulty or there's some configuration missing on the router. Also, try another laptop or Smart phone to connect to your Telstar Modem.
ICit2lol - If we are confusing you please don't hesitate to ask and raise your hand.
Networking can be a little complicated. I would also suggest for you to re-read our previous suggestions just to make sure that you're not overlooking our Posts/Suggestions. We would like to help you resolved your issue.
Hey so sorry for extremely late reply but back to work and trying to catch up.
Have got the adaptor working and the wireless device is showing it is connected as does the network in control panel but no connection and will not even connect with my ADSL cable either now.
Microsoft are also telling me this is not a genuine version to add to the woes. It is a genuine version as I put in a new HDD new RAM and changed the processor and did a general clean up and installed the OEM 7 and all was well until the new owner tried to get onto the net with th wireless thing.
Well now M$ have chipped in I really am up the creek without you know what. I might have to start from scratch by wiping the drive reseating the RAM and CPU and doing a reinstall all over again.
The machine was originally an old XP install that I was using before renewing all that stuff and installing 7 and had no problems.
I just hope I don't have to bin this machine on account of some technicality with M$
Quite frankly it is getting very depressing.
It sounds like that machine has problems other than just networking. Often times performing a clean install is the best and fastest way to fix these sorts of problems.
The reason it's showing up as not genuine is probably because of the hardware changes you made to the system. You can usually straighten out those types of problems by calling Microsoft.
If the problem is with the network stack or DNS the file below can fix that although it sounds like there are more problems involved here. Save the file, unzip and let it run until your machine reboots itself.
Yeah I think you are right chev I am not sure what has happened to it since I gave it to the friend as the wallpaper had been changed to some lowry psychedelic patterns and therein has some other settings been interfered with probably not intentionally but none the less has spun the thing round.
It is really concerning that my own ADSL will not even hook up as I could have sorted drivers or suchlike if I could get onto the net.
So am going to do a restore to an earlier point as I have spoken to her and she said a friend who knew about computers had tried to set the network up??
Then if that doesn't work a fresh install and all those updates and apps I think and see what it brings if it persists then maybe the mobo has eaten the biscuit!
Well have got it going via a system restore and reinstall the pick up dongle software.
Have spoken to the friend as to what was done in the network settings - she didn't know but whatever that friend of hers did really threw a spanner into the cogs.
Anyway ahhve now rebooted a few times and it auto connects so iI have told the friend that this friend of hers is NOT to touch the settings and preferably the machine full stop.
Many thanks to all who helped me I so do appreciate the time and patience - I sincerely mean that and makes belonging to this forum the exetremely pleasant (and addictive) experience it always is
Excellent news, glad to hear that all is sorted. :)
You did really great on troubleshooting the networking issue.
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