dumb router question

If my router/internet connection is working fine do I need to install
the software that came with my router?

Here are the details.

I have a Netgear wireless router and a network of three computers at
home. One of my boxes is connected with a cable to the router and the
other two are wireless. I want to rebuild the box that's connected to
the router via a cable. So I installed an extra (non-wireless) network
adaptor on one of my formerly wireless boxes and connected it to the
router. I then disconnected the previous computer that I had connected
to the the router with a cable, the box I'm going to rebuild.

My question is this. The router and internet connection are still
active, do I need to install the software that came with the router on
the box that is now connected to the router? Is there any software that
I need to administer the router for example? If I start the install
program the software seems to be for setting up a new router and
getting connected to the internet.

I seem to remember administering the router via a web interface. Is it
safe to assume that I can do that without installing anything on my
'new' box connected with a cable to the router?

Hope I explained this OK. Thanks for the input.

(E-Mail Removed) wrote:
> If my router/internet connection is working fine do I need to install
> the software that came with my router?
>
> Here are the details.
>
> I have a Netgear wireless router and a network of three computers at
> home. One of my boxes is connected with a cable to the router and the
> other two are wireless. I want to rebuild the box that's connected to
> the router via a cable. So I installed an extra (non-wireless) network
> adaptor on one of my formerly wireless boxes and connected it to the
> router. I then disconnected the previous computer that I had connected
> to the the router with a cable, the box I'm going to rebuild.

What is all this? Will cut to the chase here? What is it that you're
trying do? So, what is it, you got a machine with wire and wireless
NIC(s) in it?

>
> My question is this. The router and internet connection are still
> active, do I need to install the software that came with the router on
> the box that is now connected to the router? Is there any software that
> I need to administer the router for example? If I start the install
> program the software seems to be for setting up a new router and
> getting connected to the internet.

Why are you even doing it? Why don't you just go to the card's Website,
download its driver and install and configure it with the Windows O/S
Device Manager, if this is a NT based class O/S?
>
> I seem to remember administering the router via a web interface. Is it
> safe to assume that I can do that without installing anything on my
> 'new' box connected with a cable to the router?
>
To access the router admin screens all you need is a computer that's
connected to the router wired or wireless and use the browser and that's
it and nothing else.

> Hope I explained this OK. Thanks for the input.
>

It's questionable.

Duane

On 13 Mar 2006 19:46:43 -0800, (E-Mail Removed) wrote:

> If my router/internet connection is working fine do I need to install
> the software that came with my router?
>
> Here are the details.
>
> I have a Netgear wireless router and a network of three computers at
> home. One of my boxes is connected with a cable to the router and the
> other two are wireless. I want to rebuild the box that's connected to
> the router via a cable. So I installed an extra (non-wireless) network
> adaptor on one of my formerly wireless boxes and connected it to the
> router. I then disconnected the previous computer that I had connected
> to the the router with a cable, the box I'm going to rebuild.
>
> My question is this. The router and internet connection are still
> active, do I need to install the software that came with the router on
> the box that is now connected to the router? Is there any software that
> I need to administer the router for example? If I start the install
> program the software seems to be for setting up a new router and
> getting connected to the internet.
>
> I seem to remember administering the router via a web interface. Is it
> safe to assume that I can do that without installing anything on my
> 'new' box connected with a cable to the router?
>
> Hope I explained this OK. Thanks for the input.

If it works.. don't try and "fix" it.

On 13 Mar 2006 19:46:43 -0800, in alt.internet.wireless ,
(E-Mail Removed) wrote:

>If my router/internet connection is working fine do I need to install
>the software that came with my router?

You don't need any software to use routers.

You may need something to configure it, but I've yet to meet a router
that you couldn't either get to via a web interface, or via telnet. I
threw away the CDs that came with all four of the routers I've used
now, and never missed any of them.

Mark McIntyre
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In article <(E-Mail Removed)>, Mark McIntyre <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>On 13 Mar 2006 19:46:43 -0800, in alt.internet.wireless ,
>(E-Mail Removed) wrote:
>
>>If my router/internet connection is working fine do I need to install
>>the software that came with my router?
>
>You don't need any software to use routers.
>
>You may need something to configure it, but I've yet to meet a router
>that you couldn't either get to via a web interface, or via telnet. I
>threw away the CDs that came with all four of the routers I've used
>now, and never missed any of them.

Big mistake throwing the disks away, with spring in the air, they make
great coasters for picnics. Keeps your glass/cup from getting dirty on
public picnic tables. AOL used to be great for that as well.

>
>Mark McIntyre

fundamentalism, fundamentally wrong.