Originally posted by nokiaman
Hi i plugged my netgear bridge into my router which is connected to the net then tried to connect to the net but it didn't work.
Which makes sense as I suggested you connect your PC to the Netgear, not connect the Netgear to the router. You don't need to physically connect the Netgear to the router with a cable, it should make a wireless connection instead.
I wouldnt; have to change modem or anything would i?
Don't worry, this is very unlikely.
I only have 1 ethernet port on my router/modem and on my pc aswell.
Again, this is fine for what we're trying to do.
Okay deep breath time, here's what we need to do.
You can access the Internet using your PC with no problems when you connect it to the router. Therefore your Internet connection is fine. That's the good news.
The bad news is that when you try to get your PS2 talking to the router via your Netgear access point (and no cables between Netgear & router cos it's meant to be wireless) something goes a bit haywire.
Okay, what I would suggest is the following:
1. Disconnect your PC's network cable from the router.
2. Now connect your PC to the Netgear access point using a network cable (it may have to be a crossover cable, check your Netgear documentation).
3. At this point, your Netgear will only have two things plugged in to it, your PC via a network cable and the power cable (obvious I know).
4. Now check out the documentation that came with your Netgear and see how you can access the configuration options for it. It will either have a configuration utility you can run on your PC, or the instructions will tell you to type in a particular address in your Internet browser to access a "web page" on the device itself.
Once you've done this, the Netgear should be able to list available wireless networks and you should then be able to tell it which one to join.
Once you've done this, see if you can access the Internet from your PC via the Netgear. If you can't, then you have an issue, it may be worth seeing what options there are for assigning IP addresses automatically. Ideally the IP address should be assigned by your router, if the Netgear has a DHCP server option, you may want to try switching this off or disabling it temporarily so see what happens.
To put it bluntly, if your PC can't get to the net via your Netgear, then definitely your PS2 won't either. Once the PC can connect, the PS2 should be able to also, just by plugging it into the Netgear, rather than the PC.
By the way, what operating system does your PC run, XP?