NTL & WIRELESS CONNECTION

Hi, I have only recently just changed over to NTL broadband and would
like to set up a wieless connection for my laptop. My laptop is WI-FI
enabled and was working fine wirelessly through my original BT
connection. Obviously NTL have supplied me with a modem so could some
kind person tell me can/how do I set up my laptop and my Bt Voyager
2100 wireless ADSL. At the moment my laptop works fine through the
Ethernet cable but I regularly work out in the garden shed so a
wireless connection is a bonus. The laptop is the only computer in the
house which runs of the modem. What I really need to know is what cable
goes where and into the back of what !!! Your help would be greatly
appreciated.

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> Hi, I have only recently just changed over to NTL broadband and would
> like to set up a wieless connection for my laptop. My laptop is WI-FI
> enabled and was working fine wirelessly through my original BT
> connection. Obviously NTL have supplied me with a modem so could some
> kind person tell me can/how do I set up my laptop and my Bt Voyager
> 2100 wireless ADSL. At the moment my laptop works fine through the
> Ethernet cable but I regularly work out in the garden shed so a
> wireless connection is a bonus. The laptop is the only computer in the
> house which runs of the modem. What I really need to know is what cable
> goes where and into the back of what !!! Your help would be greatly
> appreciated.
>

First - do something about posting your email address!

I'm guessing you need a new WiFi AP/router, as yours is an all in one ADSL
unit. I'm on ntl and use a Linksys WRT54G AP/router and this works
superbly.

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> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>> Hi, I have only recently just changed over to NTL broadband and
>> would like to set up a wieless connection for my laptop. My
>> laptop is WI-FI enabled and was working fine wirelessly through
>> my original BT connection. Obviously NTL have supplied me with
>> a modem so could some kind person tell me can/how do I set up
>> my laptop and my Bt Voyager 2100 wireless ADSL. At the moment
>> my laptop works fine through the Ethernet cable but I regularly
>> work out in the garden shed so a wireless connection is a
>> bonus. The laptop is the only computer in the house which runs
>> of the modem. What I really need to know is what cable goes
>> where and into the back of what !!! Your help would be greatly
>> appreciated.
>>
>
> First - do something about posting your email address!

i.e. munge it to avoid spammers picking it out.

> I'm guessing you need a new WiFi AP/router, as yours is an all
> in one ADSL unit. I'm on ntl and use a Linksys WRT54G AP/router
> and this works superbly.

Spot on. As the ADSL modem has an Ethernet interface, you can add a
wireless router (non-ADSL) to achieve what is wanted.

Pick a known brand name e.g. Linksys, Netgear, D-Link.

Make sure you set up WPA-PSK security on the wireless LAN, to avoid
piggybackers and hackers.

Jenny,

Many thanks for the information.

regards
Richard

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In <Xns970CA0BC0EC7Ejny@62.253.170.163> on Sat, 12 Nov 2005 15:45:07 GMT,
Jenny Talyor <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>"__spc__" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
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>> First - do something about posting your email address!
>
>i.e. munge it to avoid spammers picking it out.

Not terribly important, actually -- I get very little spam on addresses I use
for Usenet postings.

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John Navas <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
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> In <Xns970CA0BC0EC7Ejny@62.253.170.163> on Sat, 12 Nov 2005
> 15:45:07 GMT, Jenny Talyor <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
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>>"__spc__" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
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>>> First - do something about posting your email address!
>>
>>i.e. munge it to avoid spammers picking it out.
>
> Not terribly important, actually -- I get very little spam on
> addresses I use for Usenet postings.

Certainly used to be a problem a year or two ago. Maybe now Usenet
users are more wary, the spammers have largely given up trawling
groups.

On Sun, 13 Nov 2005 16:41:16 GMT, Joe King <no-(E-Mail Removed)>
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>John Navas <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
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>> In <Xns970CA0BC0EC7Ejny@62.253.170.163> on Sat, 12 Nov 2005
>> 15:45:07 GMT, Jenny Talyor <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
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>>>"__spc__" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
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>>>> First - do something about posting your email address!
>>>
>>>i.e. munge it to avoid spammers picking it out.
>>
>> Not terribly important, actually -- I get very little spam on
>> addresses I use for Usenet postings.

>Certainly used to be a problem a year or two ago. Maybe now Usenet
>users are more wary, the spammers have largely given up trawling
>groups.

Nope. Spammers are still around and quite active. See:
http://www.spamhaus.org/rokso/index.lasso
http://www.spamhaus.org/statistics/spammers.lasso
for a list of the most active spammers. The list has hardly changed
in the last few years with only the addition of phishers and Nigerians
as the major change. To convince the public that the governments are
actually doing something against spam, a few get prosecuted:
http://www.spamhaus.org/newsindex.lasso

What has changed is that virus and spam filtering techniques have
improved and become more prevalent at both the ISP and the desktop.
They're far from perfect, but have drastically reduced the amount of
spam that is being propagated and seen.

I've been using my various real email addresses since the stone age of
the internet. I also have a few email addresses that are rarely used
for anything beyond testing and emergencies (when the mail servers are
down). After filtering, the amount of spam received by the public and
private addresses are about the same.

Mangling email addresses is also totally useless as methinks the major
source of valid email addresses is NOT from harvesting usenet, blogs,
or whois data. It comes directly from the ISP via dubious sources. It
only takes one employee that wants some extra cash to sell a cdrom
full of their customer names and email addresses. For example, I
setup a new sbcglobal.net account for a DSL customer and was greeted
with spam within about an hour. As the signup web pages were SSL
encrypted, the source could only have been within SBC or Yahoo.

To me, address mangling is like hiding under a rock.

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