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I have XP Sp3, Internet Explorer V8.
I use Firefox for browsing & never use IE. I use a desktop computer, which has an AT&T modem connected to the computer using an ethernet connection. The modem provides wireless connection to AT&T DirectTV I tried once unsuccessfully to establish a Wifi connection to the modem. Is it even possible to set up Wifi on an XP computer? If so, can someone provide a tutorial? Thanks |
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On Thu, 19 Oct 2017 09:25:01 -0500, "Norm Cook"
wrote: I have XP Sp3, Internet Explorer V8. I use Firefox for browsing & never use IE. I use a desktop computer, which has an AT&T modem connected to the computer using an ethernet connection. The modem provides wireless connection to AT&T DirectTV I tried once unsuccessfully to establish a Wifi connection to the modem. Is it even possible to set up Wifi on an XP computer? If so, can someone provide a tutorial? Thanks WiFi works fine on XP. Once it sees the WiFi adapter you should have a WiFi icon on the task bar, click that, start a scan for sites select the one you want, enter the password and off you go. |
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On Thu, 19 Oct 2017 09:25:01 -0500, "Norm Cook"
wrote: I have XP Sp3, Internet Explorer V8. I use Firefox for browsing & never use IE. I use a desktop computer, which has an AT&T modem connected to the computer using an ethernet connection. The modem provides wireless connection to AT&T DirectTV I tried once unsuccessfully to establish a Wifi connection to the modem. Is it even possible to set up Wifi on an XP computer? If so, can someone provide a tutorial? Let's understand the question. You want to connect your TV to the modem via wireless ? If you mean connect your computer to the modem via wireless, there's no point as you already have a much faster (and safer) Ethernet connection. []'s -- Don't be evil - Google 2004 We have a new policy - Google 2012 |
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"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote in message ... In message , writes: On Thu, 19 Oct 2017 09:25:01 -0500, "Norm Cook" wrote: I have XP Sp3, Internet Explorer V8. I use Firefox for browsing & never use IE. I use a desktop computer, which has an AT&T modem connected to the computer using an ethernet connection. The modem provides wireless connection to AT&T DirectTV I tried once unsuccessfully to establish a Wifi connection to the modem. Is it even possible to set up Wifi on an XP computer? If so, can someone provide a tutorial? Thanks WiFi works fine on XP. Once it sees the WiFi adapter you should have a WiFi icon on the task bar, click that, start a scan for sites select the one you want, enter the password and off you go. That's for setting up a wifi connection _from_ the computer to the modem/router. If, in contrast, you're wanting to keep your ethernet connection to the modem/router (which I would, unless you have a good reason not to), but are wanting to set up (turn on?) the wifi capabilities of the modem/router, maybe so you can use it with a smart TV, smartphone, or similar: then you need to get into the modem/router's control interface. Usually this is done via a browser - any browser will do, on XP (or even earlier I think). If you've still got (or can download) the MoDem's handbook, it'll tell you the URL to use, but if not, try http://192.168.1.0, or 192.168.0.1, or ...0.0, or ...1.1, or 10.0.0.2 - one of those five should work. You'll get what looks like a web page, but with the logo of the manufacturer (i. e. AT&T) at top left, and should be able to click through "links" until you get to where you set up the wifi (turn it on, name it, and determine what encryption, and the key). If at some point it asks you for a login and password, try admin and password, or admin and admin. (These - and the URL, for that matter - may be on a label on the back or bottom of the MoDem.) -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf Fortunately radio is a forgiving medium. It hides a multitude of chins ... Vanessa feltz, RT 2014-3/28-4/4 WiFi works fine on XP. Once it sees the WiFi adapter you should have a WiFi icon on the task bar, click that, start a scan for sites select the one you want, enter the password and off you go. I read that somewhere before, but no such icon exists. |
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"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote in message ... In message , writes: On Thu, 19 Oct 2017 09:25:01 -0500, "Norm Cook" wrote: I have XP Sp3, Internet Explorer V8. I use Firefox for browsing & never use IE. I use a desktop computer, which has an AT&T modem connected to the computer using an ethernet connection. The modem provides wireless connection to AT&T DirectTV I tried once unsuccessfully to establish a Wifi connection to the modem. Is it even possible to set up Wifi on an XP computer? If so, can someone provide a tutorial? Thanks WiFi works fine on XP. Once it sees the WiFi adapter you should have a WiFi icon on the task bar, click that, start a scan for sites select the one you want, enter the password and off you go. That's for setting up a wifi connection _from_ the computer to the modem/router. If, in contrast, you're wanting to keep your ethernet connection to the modem/router (which I would, unless you have a good reason not to), but are wanting to set up (turn on?) the wifi capabilities of the modem/router, maybe so you can use it with a smart TV, smartphone, or similar: then you need to get into the modem/router's control interface. Usually this is done via a browser - any browser will do, on XP (or even earlier I think). If you've still got (or can download) the MoDem's handbook, it'll tell you the URL to use, but if not, try http://192.168.1.0, or 192.168.0.1, or ...0.0, or ...1.1, or 10.0.0.2 - one of those five should work. You'll get what looks like a web page, but with the logo of the manufacturer (i. e. AT&T) at top left, and should be able to click through "links" until you get to where you set up the wifi (turn it on, name it, and determine what encryption, and the key). If at some point it asks you for a login and password, try admin and password, or admin and admin. (These - and the URL, for that matter - may be on a label on the back or bottom of the MoDem.) -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf Fortunately radio is a forgiving medium. It hides a multitude of chins ... Vanessa feltz, RT 2014-3/28-4/4 Perhaps I need to update the Realtek driver? |
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In message , Norm Cook
writes: [] On Thu, 19 Oct 2017 09:25:01 -0500, "Norm Cook" wrote: I have XP Sp3, Internet Explorer V8. I use Firefox for browsing & never use IE. I use a desktop computer, which has an AT&T modem connected to the computer using an ethernet connection. The modem provides wireless connection to AT&T DirectTV I tried once unsuccessfully to establish a Wifi connection to the modem. Is it even possible to set up Wifi on an XP computer? [] To clarify - are you wanting to: 1. Just activate/set up the wifi in the modem/router, so you can use it with other devices (such as smartphones, tablets, visitor's equipment, maybe your TV), while keeping the XP desktop computer connected to the router by cable? OR 2. change the connection from the XP desktop computer to the router, from ethernet cable to wifi? If 1., see my earlier post: setting up the wifi on the router isn't a matter of "doing it from XP" - you just control the router through its HTML interface from the browser, which certainly can be _done_ from XP. If 2. (and like others, I'd say don't unless you have a good reason - the only one I can think of being domestic harmony, i. e. your spouse has asked if you can get rid of unsightly cables), then: (a) does your desktop computer even _have_ wifi capability [a lot don't - if it does, it will _probably_ have a "rubber duck" aerial, though not necessarily]; (b) [assuming it does have wifi] if you go into Device Manager [Control Panel | System | Hardware], do you see the wireless network adapter under Network adapters, and it's not disabled or otherwise had a problem shown against it? (c) [if that's OK] under Network Connections [it's under Start | Settings on this computer] - what do you see? -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf I reckon in a few years we'll have GoogleBum. You'll type in someone's name and it will show you what their bum looks like. Even if they've never posted a nude picture, it will reconstruct their bum from bits of their face and leg and whatever else they can find. - Charlie Brooker, RT 2014/12/13-19 |
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On Fri, 20 Oct 2017 06:23:26 -0500, "Norm Cook"
wrote: WiFi works fine on XP. Once it sees the WiFi adapter you should have a WiFi icon on the task bar, click that, start a scan for sites select the one you want, enter the password and off you go. I read that somewhere before, but no such icon exists. Right click "My network places" or whatever it is in English, --- properties----- double click "wireless connections" --- then click the "show icon in taskbar". There are two icon boxes, you can enable both. If drivers are not installed, or if wifi is disabled, nothing will appear. Which is kind of expected. All you need are the drivers. I never install the third party software that comes with the wifi card/USB. []'s -- Don't be evil - Google 2004 We have a new policy - Google 2012 |
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In message , Shadow
writes: [] All you need are the drivers. I never install the third party software that comes with the wifi card/USB. []'s Seconded. It's usually non-standard, and rarely does anything more than that built into Windows itself. (Though we still need to know whether you're just wanting to turn the wifi on in your router for use with other devices, or whether you really want to give up the ethernet connection from your desktop computer to the router; if the former, you don't need wifi drivers in the wired computer.) -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf This was before we knew that a laboratory rat, if experimented upon, will develop cancer. [Quoted by] Anne ), 1997-1-29 |
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Charlie+ wrote:
On Thu, 19 Oct 2017 09:25:01 -0500, "Norm Cook" wrote as underneath : I have XP Sp3, Internet Explorer V8. I use Firefox for browsing & never use IE. I use a desktop computer, which has an AT&T modem connected to the computer using an ethernet connection. The modem provides wireless connection to AT&T DirectTV I tried once unsuccessfully to establish a Wifi connection to the modem. Is it even possible to set up Wifi on an XP computer? If so, can someone provide a tutorial? Thanks Others have given you the information for what you want to do but you dont seem to say anywhere that you actually have a desktop with WiFi card in it, which is of course the very first requirement, if not then maybe get youself a cheap USB WiFi dongle! C+ I don't recommend a really cheap USB Wifi dongle, unless you've verified via customer reviews, that it lasts. Some of the cheap ones seem to have a dropping output level after only three months. And whether Wifi is a big win, depends on what standards are involved. It's pretty hard to get blazing speed out of Wifi. A wired connection can be more consistent. (The 60GHz Wifi can get 700MB/sec transfer speeds, but only in the same room, and maybe 5-8 feet from one another. Hardly practical.) WinXP has Wireless Zero Config for Wifi setup. Or a Wifi product can come with its own GUI interface for setup, using a CD in the box. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirele..._Configuration https://technet.microsoft.com/library/bb878124 Paul |
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