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Greetings !

It sounds so simple.....

The telephone socket is in one corner of the room; the QOSMIO laptop in the
opposite corner.

I have a BT Voyager broadband modem/router plugged into the telephone
socket. From the Voyager an Ethernet cable runs to an Advent Ethernet Adaptor
that plugs in to the domestic electric ring-main to use that as a
quasi-Ethernet cable.

Another Advent plugged in to a socket near the laptop has an Ethernet cable
running to the laptop, and this allowed me to access the internet on my
laptop.


Now, however, that last cable runs to a Belkin F5D 8633-4 Wireless router,
positioned so as to be able to send the signal down the garden to the Desktop
computer in the garage.

And it all worked just FINE - eventually !

It took a fortnight of e-mails, then a 90 minute call from the Indian call
centre....


Until last Wednesday ! Since when, I have had no connection to the Internet
on "my" network.

However, as luck would have it, my Laptop has a wirelss gizmo - that picked
up my neighbour's connection !

Any ideas ?

BT's call centre in India todl me first that I had a virus - though McAfee
disagreed.

The next time, I was told to re-set "everything" to the default.

The third time, I was told to plug the laptop directly into the Voyager -
and Voila ! Internet connection !

But not when I set it up again as I require it.


Any bright ideas ?

I suspect it's all to do with the 192.168.x.y set-up.......