[olpc-help] Internet

[jim]

it will help to have more information: 

* what is the model of your netgear wireless router? 
* what kind of security does your netgear wireless 
router support: WEP? WPA? be as specific as you can. 
* do you have password access enabled on your netgear 
wireless router? 
* can you tolerate disabling the security features 
to permit any host to use the access point? 
* do you have a computer other than an XO box that 
works with the netgear wireless router? 
* have you managed to connect any of your XO boxes 
to the internet (e.g. at a wi-fi cafe or some other 
place)? 

* when you use the XO box to try to access the 
netgear wireless router, what exactly do you see 
and do? 

* can you afford to try a wired rather than a 
wireless router? this will require not only a 
"regular" router (with several separate connection 
ports, aka with a built-in four-port or eight-port 
switch), but cables for each computer as well as 
a USB-to-ethernet adapter for each computer. 



On Fri, 2008-08-29 at 11:11 -0400, Nancy Haddad wrote:
> My children have had their OLPC computers for many months now and
> every so often I spend way too many hours attempting to access the
> Internet for them. We have been unsuccessful. I have purchased a
> Netgear wireless router for our home, but that still hasn't worked.
> They are so disappointed and I am running out of patience. I have
> exhausted all of the on-line help that I could find. I tried to get
> assistance from Comcast which is my Internet provider. I have gotten
> no where.
>  
> Please help!
>  
> NANCY HADDAD
> 123 MCLANAHAN DRIVE
> BEAVER FALLS PA 15010
> 724-384-0333
>  
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> life around work!
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>      or email me at nancy at wedeliverwellness.com
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