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Hey guys, just wondering if anyone could help me with a problem I'm facing.

So, my girlfriend wants her computer to have internet, but it's too far away to just run a cable to her. So, I got a wireless router and adapter. It's a linksys wrt54gs model, and the adapter is a wmp54g model. So, everything is set up nice and dandy, and I've got a connection to the router on her computer. Sadly, it won't connect to the internet because it claims that it just, well, can't. It's fairly disappointing considering that I just spent around $130 lol. If anybody has some ideas that I should follow up, I'm very open to suggestions, comments, or general remarks.

Thanks for any help!

If there's no wireless Internet in her area (I doubt there would be), then connecting to a wireless router wont work.

Hey guys, just wondering if anyone could help me with a problem I'm facing.

So, my girlfriend wants her computer to have internet, but it's too far away to just run a cable to her. So, I got a wireless router and adapter. It's a linksys wrt54gs model, and the adapter is a wmp54g model. So, everything is set up nice and dandy, and I've got a connection to the router on her computer. Sadly, it won't connect to the internet because it claims that it just, well, can't. It's fairly disappointing considering that I just spent around $130 lol. If anybody has some ideas that I should follow up, I'm very open to suggestions, comments, or general remarks.

Thanks for any help!

At worst, return all the stuff you bought for refund/store credit.

Thanks for any help!

Let her get her own wired internet connection and pay for it herself. She probably won't know who your are in a year or two anyway. :eek:

If you doubt that, marry her and get an internet connection in your apartment/house. :rolleyes:

If there's no wireless Internet in her area (I doubt there would be), then connecting to a wireless router wont work.

Your comment makes no sense. He's getting a wireless router so she will have wireless Internet. It's wireless routers and access points that give people wireless internet, you know. What you said is equivalent to saying "if there are no electrical sockets in her area then connecting to an electrical socket won't give her electricity".

At worst, return all the stuff you bought for refund/store credit.

In that case just use your store credit to get Geek Squad or someone like that to do it for you rather than buying and returning a million routers and cables.

Your comment makes no sense. He's getting a wireless router so she will have wireless Internet. It's wireless routers and access points that give people wireless internet, you know. What you said is equivalent to saying "if there are no electrical sockets in her area then connecting to an electrical socket won't give her electricity".

Indeed - though it could be that the router itself is not connected to the Internet. It could be that he bought the wireless router, plugged it into electricity, ran a cable from the router to the computer and expected Internet.

I mean, how is the computer 'too far away from the Internet' - is it in another house, county, state?

However, it's probably a configuration issue or a password needs to be set - go back to the store, withstand the withering stare of the tech geek and fix it.

Indeed - though it could be that the router itself is not connected to the Internet. It could be that he bought the wireless router, plugged it into electricity, ran a cable from the router to the computer and expected Internet.

Well, the latter would be just... uninformed, but still not equivalent to what Hydesland said - apparently that somehow there is a "wireless internet" apart from waps/routers (let's not involve 3g HSDPA broadband internet through the mobile phone network and satellites as those are not relevant to the problem). I am assuming that the OP has connected the router to an Internet connection of whatever sort and that the girlfriend is within the router's signal range.

It's a linksys wrt54gs model, and the adapter is a wmp54g model.


This here is your problem. This is the back of the Linksys wrt54gs model

http://www.ewaggle.com/DataFile/Networking/Routers/Linksys/WRT54GL/L48-2468-out3-wg.jpg

Note the lack of telephone jack? This is a pure router. You need a modem to go with it, and hook it up with a CAT5e cable.

Note the lack of telephone jack? This is a pure router. You need a modem to go with it, and hook it up with a CAT5e cable.
Yeah, a CAT5e network cable from the WAN Port on the router to the modem should do the trick.

Also don't forget to protect your wireless network with encryption. Preferably WPA which is more secure than the outdated WEP encryption.

Also don't forget to protect your wireless network with encryption. Preferably WPA which is more secure than the outdated WEP encryption.
very true. A favourite trick a mate likes to do is go to a wifi hotspot with his laptop. He logs in and uses a program to see who else is on nearby. Most ppl don't bother with encryption so he sends them a program that cuts them off the wifi and when they log back in he gets their log-in name and password.
He's been using his neighbours wireless network for months now w/o the neighbour knowing.