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Answer» I recently bought a D-Link DKT-110 Wireless Router but when I try to set up it says 'Connect the (Internet) port to the modem's Ethernet port.'
As far as I know my modem doesn't have an ethernet port. I have a Wanadoo Broadband Modem, does anyone have any idea what I should do?
Thankyou for any help in advance.Modem line to the computer you had hooked up before is the ethernet line...
Hook this into the router you purchased and you should be good to go...Sorry, I'm not really following you.
I put in the line I had going to my broadband into the router but it didn't work.
I have the LAN 1 socket in from the computer and broadband is connected to the computer and the PHONE line. So now how do I connect the router internet socket, I'm finding it hard to understand as it didn't give much away on the installation and there was no new cable for this so I assumed I was to use and existing one.You need to connect the cable from your broadband to the router, this is the cable you had connected to the computer before you got the router. The cable need to go in to the router's internet port. This port looks like the other ports on the router but is usually separated from the rest. I TOOK the cable from my broadband to the computer but it doesn't fit into the internet socket or anywhere else on the router.
The cable has a slim rectangular end but all the router sockets are similar to phone line sockets. I'm sorry I can't elaborate much more on that.
Maybe I need something to be able to connect them together. I'm just hoping that I'm not unable to use the router at all.Is this the type of plug your broadband modem has?
If that is the case, see if your modem doesn't have a port like the ones on your router.Yes, that's the plug from my modem to the computer.
I think I'm supposed to put this from my modem to the router but the router has 5 sockets, 4 LAN and 1 Internet, all needing the same type of plug. They are all similar to phone line sockets that click when they're pushed in.Do you modem have a port like the ones on the router? The reason I ask is because you can't connect the modem to the router via USB. (The cable in my previous picture was an USB cable.) This only works for modem to computer connections.
You'll need this type of cable to make a connection from your modem to your router.
So everything should be working if I get this cable and connect it from the router to my modem?
On my modem I don't have any space. I have a fixed in cable going to the computer and a cable going to the phone line.Quote from: Cullen16 on August 04, 2007, 07:14:31 PM So everything should be working if I get this cable and connect it from the router to my modem?
I can't TELL you that before you tell me if your modem got a port like the ones on your router. But if it does then yes it should work. Modems often come with this kind of cable, so check that you don't already have one somewhere.Yes, it has 1 socket like the ones on my router which is being USED by the connection to the phone line.There is a difference between those:
a phone cable is 2 wires and a Ethernet cable (the one you need) has 8 wires.
Jonas So in other words your modem doesn't have the required port and therefore you can't hook up that router. I would suggest you contact your ISP and request another modem. You need one with an Ethernet port.
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