" Wireless Internet Connection tips for Windows XP and Vista Users"

Are you trying to set-up a wireless connection to a Windows XP computer? Having a hard time to grab your routers ip address? Here are some simple tips which might be of use to you.

First you have to make sure that all connections is well attached and are at their right ports. You could either use a USB connection or an ethernet cord to connect from the modem to the wireless router just make sure that you only choose one of the choices, so to prevent interference, after which you need to powercycle the modem, router and the computer. This simply means that you need to shutdown your computer, your router as well as your modem, then wait for about thirty seconds to laps after which turn the modem on first, next would be the router then the computer.

By doing this, your devices will have a synchronize grabbing of the signal from your ISP's server. Once your computer has booted up,check if your computer was able to grab your routers ip address. For you to check the ip address, you just simply have to click on the start butto > click RUN > type in cmd > click ok. A black screen would appear shortly, after which type in ipconfig on the blinking cursor. Check if your ip address starts with a 192.... if it does then it would simply mean that your computer was able to grasp the ip address of your router and your internet has already been set for you to use. If you were not able to grasp the 192 ip address try to type ipconfig /release in your computer (for xp only), then check if you have 0.0.0.0 ip address in reply. Then we have to renew the ip address just to check if it would be able to grasp the 192 ip address and for you to do that you just have to simply type ipconfig /renew. Check if you already have 192 and if still your computer wasn't able o grasp the ip address, bypass your router and have a direct connection from the modem to the computer.

If you are able to connect to the internet having a direct connection from the modem to your computer, then basically it would mean that you have to contact your routers OEM for further assistance on configuring it's settings. Thank you for viewing! I hope you learned something.