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router, aol and xp
Name: billy Date: April 1, 2007 at 11:38:31 Pacific OS: xp pro CPU/Ram: ATHLON 2.8 1 GIG DDR
Comment:
posting this may be a long shot but here goes.. I have a linksys wireless modem router and im on aol I had it all working fine with the router set up great (i was using the router ip addy so i could set up a static ip as i could not do it with aol) anyway this also worked great for the last few months.. now lately i have had problems in the last few days getting online so after trying a few things decided to format as i needed one anyway
all went as normal as i had done this a lot of times before.. i can get online with aol software installed although i used to without it being installed but i cant get my other computer and laptop to connect (it sees the linksys as normal but just wont go and for some reason i cant hit 192.168.1.1 which is my routers default setup page.. anyone any ideas
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