BT Broadband - manually configure?

[Repost to tidy up etc]

A friend has a BT Broadband package with a Intelligent Gateway 1800.

Can the connection be set up manually?

Windows XP mainly, but a couple of PCs with ME. General instructions
should suffice, I really just need to know what has to be configured.


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(E-Mail Removed) (Nige) wrote:

> [Repost to tidy up etc]
>
> A friend has a BT Broadband package with a Intelligent Gateway 1800.
>
> Can the connection be set up manually?
>
> Windows XP mainly, but a couple of PCs with ME. General instructions
> should suffice, I really just need to know what has to be configured.
>
>
> --
> Nige
>
> Please replace YYYY with the current year
> ille quis mortem cum maximus ludos, vincat
>
AIUI the BT IG 1800 is a 4 port router/modem/WAP

The ports will be 10baseT

You have 10base2 cabling. You will need a transceiver between your
existing cable and the router.

I presume that each machine has an IP address? What range are you using?

The LAN port of the router will have a private range address too, what is
it ?

Can you attach a pc directly to the router to configure it ?

- Steve

In uk.telecom.broadband, Steve wrote:

>You have 10base2 cabling. You will need a transceiver between your
>existing cable and the router.
Just bought a combo hub.

>I presume that each machine has an IP address? What range are you using?
192.168.0.0xx

>The LAN port of the router will have a private range address too, what is
>it ?
Don't know.

>Can you attach a pc directly to the router to configure it ?
Yes, via hub.

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In article <(E-Mail Removed)>,
(E-Mail Removed) (Nige) wrote:

>
> >I presume that each machine has an IP address? What range are you
> using?
> 192.168.0.0xx

You will need to make sure that the router is on the same subnet if you
want everything to work seamlessly.
>
> >The LAN port of the router will have a private range address too, what
> is >it ?
> Don't know.
>

Time to RTFM then. I've no idea what they default to, and I've never
configured one, so I wouldn't like to guess !!!

- Steve

In uk.telecom.broadband, Steve wrote:

>I've never configured one, so I wouldn't like to guess !!!

My question was how to configure the connection, not the router.


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Nige wrote:
> In uk.telecom.broadband, Steve wrote:
>
>
>>I've never configured one, so I wouldn't like to guess !!!
>
>
> My question was how to configure the connection, not the router.
>
>

You just need a userid. The userid is anything you like as long as it in
ends @btbroadband.com and the password can be left blank as its not needed.

In article <(E-Mail Removed)>,
(E-Mail Removed) (Nige) wrote:

> In uk.telecom.broadband, Steve wrote:
>
> >I've never configured one, so I wouldn't like to guess !!!
>
> My question was how to configure the connection, not the router.
>
>
> --
> Nige
>
> Please replace YYYY with the current year
> ille quis mortem cum maximus ludos, vincat
>
UREDDGREENAICM5UKP ;-)

- Steve

In uk.telecom.broadband, Steve wrote:

>> My question was how to configure the connection, not the router.

>UREDDGREENAICM5UKP ;-)

I'm sorry?

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