Morning Rick, > Have you tried powerline networking - ie Ethernet over the domestic > power cabling.
Not yet. However, I have made some success - my wife can now login over cable broadband - her work updated her laptop with a much more recent VPN and it simply worked first time when she logged in yesterday. She is pleased again ! As for the wireless, still a problem. There's something wrong (I think) in my config of the router - when we connect via ethernet we get an IP from cable (81.x.x.x) and a default gateway. When we try to connect via wireless to the same router, it's dishing up it's own ip addresses (192.168.X.X) - which is exaclt what used to happen when we had ADSL over the BT line, but it appears that the internal LAN cannot see or talk to the external WAN. I need to get down and dirty in the config of the router again. As for the upstairs-downstairs problem, we may have a solution : put the cable modem in the bedroom (where one of the three cable connections is) and have the router next to it. This is good because my wife can wireless into her work from any room in the house. Run a cable from the router downstairs to another router that we have downstairs and now we have two wireless networks. Who knows, it might just work. I hope so because downstairs is my office with the main PC, printer etc - so we want to keep all that IT stuff out of site. Time will tell. Thanks for the URL though - very useful. Cheers, Norman. _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
