When you opened up IE to see if a webpage would load, did you in fact see a webpage come up? Obviously if not, then you aren't connecting to the Internet.
Just as obviously you have a form of wireless ethernet/NIC adapter for your computer. Have you set your router up to allow connections from your computer? Linksys just released a new firmware upgrade for most of their wireless routers that makes this a breeze.
If you have more than one computer, get on a computer that will be directly hard line connected into your DSL modem and go to the address http://192.168.1.1 This is your default linksys router address. Default settings are username admin and password will be blank.
Once inside your router click the tab that says Wireless. Then, click the big green button. This will temporarily open your router up to accept requests from computers to connect to it. Go back to the computer that is going to be wirelessly connected now.
If you have the Linksys wireless network adapter for your computer, open the Wireless Network Monitor. It will look like a green box with black stripes in it in your systray if it's installed. Then simply click the big green button on the side and the wireless adapter should try to connect to your router, they will communicate and connect!
Of course this is entirely dependent on you having all Linksys components, and since you use DSL I'm sure the configurations are different slightly. If all else fails, just have some guy from your ISP come out to your place and set it up for you.
cowartm
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January 1st, 2006 06:00
Seems we have the same router!
When you opened up IE to see if a webpage would load, did you in fact see a webpage come up? Obviously if not, then you aren't connecting to the Internet.
Just as obviously you have a form of wireless ethernet/NIC adapter for your computer. Have you set your router up to allow connections from your computer? Linksys just released a new firmware upgrade for most of their wireless routers that makes this a breeze.
If you have more than one computer, get on a computer that will be directly hard line connected into your DSL modem and go to the address http://192.168.1.1 This is your default linksys router address. Default settings are username admin and password will be blank.
Once inside your router click the tab that says Wireless. Then, click the big green button. This will temporarily open your router up to accept requests from computers to connect to it. Go back to the computer that is going to be wirelessly connected now.
If you have the Linksys wireless network adapter for your computer, open the Wireless Network Monitor. It will look like a green box with black stripes in it in your systray if it's installed. Then simply click the big green button on the side and the wireless adapter should try to connect to your router, they will communicate and connect!
Of course this is entirely dependent on you having all Linksys components, and since you use DSL I'm sure the configurations are different slightly. If all else fails, just have some guy from your ISP come out to your place and set it up for you.