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| Thread ID: 121142 | 2011-10-13 06:13:00 | Current thinking for new wireless modem | R.M. (561) | Press F1 |
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| 1237287 | 2011-10-13 06:13:00 | My Telecom Thomson has been difficult once too often... Tonight it took over an hour to connect to the internet. :( What are people's suggestions? I have one desktop, and one laptop and visitors from time to time who need to connect wirelessly. OS Windows 7. As always - TIA :thanks |
R.M. (561) | ||
| 1237288 | 2011-10-13 06:46:00 | See the bottom of this: www.c2s.co.nz :) |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1237289 | 2011-10-13 06:47:00 | I went with chil's recommendation and got a NETCOMM NB6PLUS4Wn to replace a first generation D-link G604T Have a bit more speed,suppose most are better than a G604T |
Lawrence (2987) | ||
| 1237290 | 2011-10-13 09:43:00 | Chil - thanks for that. I'll take you good advice! :) | R.M. (561) | ||
| 1237291 | 2011-10-13 18:14:00 | :thumbs: | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1237292 | 2011-10-13 18:43:00 | Hi Chill We copped a lightning strike the other day (rural) and the DLINK was fried (nice flash). So a call to Telecom resulted in a Thomson being purchased from them. The Wondows 7 laptops seem to connect fine, but the TC4200 running Windows XP tablet edition simply won't connect on wireless unless you're in "administrator" mode - which the kids are not allowed to do since they seem to land on really dodgy sites when they are surfing (lesson learnt after a couple of full hard disk reformats to remove deeply embedded malware). Any suggestions on a fixit? (including changing to another modem that might work with XP tablet edition) :confused: |
ellpow (16400) | ||
| 1237293 | 2011-10-13 18:59:00 | Is that *just* this WiFi on the Thomson? Or all wireless routers (As in, did it do that for your D-Link too)? | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1237294 | 2011-10-13 19:07:00 | The D-Link worked fine with the TC4200 - I think it's just this WiFi on the Thomson. (Too scared to upgrade the TC4200 to Windows 7 - don't know what functionality I'd lose - several times after an XP update, I have had to find and restore a driver specific to the tablet) |
ellpow (16400) | ||
| 1237295 | 2011-10-13 22:04:00 | Yeah the Thomsons are renouned for "funny issues", but I'm pretty sure this may be because of the WPS button. Something to try: Make the account an Administrative account, then put in the password, then take away the admin rights. Something else to try: Make sure you're entering the WPA key, and not using the WPS button on the front of the Thomson. |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1237296 | 2011-10-13 23:32:00 | Thanks Chill Instigating and removing the administrator didn't work, but entering the WPA key did !! All good. :banana |
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