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[Ron Doran]

This should be an easy answer for the more clever ones. I am struggling.
My PC is connected to Cytanet via a Thompson router. How do I connect a laptop as well?
Told you it was easy!

[Get Real!]

Two methods…

Wired:

Step1: Connect a RJ45 cable into the RJ45 “hole” of your laptop and the other end into a RJ45 “hole” at the back of the Thomson.

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Step2: Within seconds you should see activity (in the form of an icon that looks like a little screen animating/radiating) on the bottom-most bar of the Windows environment trying to get an IP address.

Step3: Once it settles down just double click (run) the blue-ish Internet Explorer icon.

Wireless:

Step1: Look for a little button on the surface or sides of the laptop that has the wireless logo and turn it on so that it lights up.
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Step2: Within seconds you should see activity (in the form of an icon that looks like a little screen animating/radiating) on the bottom-most bar of the Windows environment trying to get an IP address.

Step3: Double-click on that icon so that a list of available wireless networks appears. From that list choose the one with the strongest signal which will most likely be the one in your home.

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Step4: You’ll be prompted to enter the “password” in which case type in the “Wep” number which can be found at the back of the Thomson unit. Look at the label under there.

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Step 5: Once it settles down just double click (run) the blue-ish Internet Explorer icon.

[CBBB]

or RTFM!

[Get Real!]

So what happened Ron, did you succeed?

[Ron Doran]

Get Real - Thanks for your interest. Have just tried it and FAILED.
I said that the laptop is new, I should have added 'new to me' since it belonged to my daughter from UK.
It 'failed' because it was trying to connect to O2 Internet provider. How do I get rid of this and then try to connect to, say, Cyta?
Hope you are patient.

[Ron Doran]

CBBB - I asked a serious question, but your response didn't seem to be in the same vein.
I will now ask a silly question. What does RTFM mean?

[Get Real!]

Get Real - Thanks for your interest. Have just tried it and FAILED.
I said that the laptop is new, I should have added 'new to me' since it belonged to my daughter from UK.
It 'failed' because it was trying to connect to O2 Internet provider. How do I get rid of this and then try to connect to, say, Cyta?
Hope you are patient.

While in Internet Explorer go to the pull down menu:

“Tools” > “Internet Options” > “Connections”

…and delete all existing items in the list if any.

While there, click also on “LAN settings” and unselect anything to do with “proxy server”.

Then get back to me again…

NB: The above may differ a little depending on the version of IE.

[Ron Doran]

Get Real - Thanks again. Will try that on the morrow. Chap-el day.

[Get Real!]

Get Real - Thanks again. Will try that on the morrow. Chap-el day.

No worries... you're getting there!

[Ron Doran]

Get Real - Did as you suggested with IE, nothing to delete, but deleted it anyway. The laptop still trying to connect to O2 though.
Have applied your first option and connected by wire temporarily.
Thank you again. R.