[Gllug] OT re Sky Broadband

[Peter Ball]

> Sky provide an installation CD

Ignore it, bin it or use it to put your coffee cup on it has no other use.

> The flat has three phone sockets, the main  one installed by BT and
> two extensions.

Unplug the secondary socket wiring from the BT master socket.  If its plugged into the front 
just by unpluging, if its connected internally to the bottom half of of the faceplate by 
unplugging the bottom half of the face plate.  you will find another socket under the bottom 
half of the faceplate.

Test that this is done by checking that the extension sockets are dead and the master socket
is live.  This eliminates the extension wiring as a problem.

Plug a filter into the live master socket,  plug a phone into the filter and check that you get a 
good line.

> Sky provide a Netgear modem (you don't say which model)

Plug the router into the filter, connect the PC to the router by a network cable (NOT by usb.)

Turn on the router (do NOT turn on the PC yet)

You should get a green power light, a flashing tick to say that its booting up and when the 
flashing tick goes away an orange internet sign (it looks like a candle) the orange internet 
sign shows that you have a broadband connection back to the exchange but are not yet 
logged onto Sky.

Netgear routers default to 192.168.0.1 on the lan side with NAT and provide local settings 
via DHCP.

Assuming the PC picked its network settings up by DHCP from the router it will have an ip 
address in the 192.168.02-254 range.

Open a browser window and logon to the router at 192.168.0.1 login as "admin" with p/w 
"password"

The router should be able to pick most of the settings for the broadband  up automatically 
the username and password will be in the Sky welcome letter and you may need to set VPI 
to 0 (zero) and VCI to 38 by hand.

Once you apply the settings you should see the internet light change to green and the the 
details on the router management pages change to show the connection.

Hope that helps

Let me know how you get on :-)

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Peter Ball
Computers For Linguists
peter.ball at marguet-ball.net


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