Router w/ 98 & XP for DSL

i have a Network Everywhere router (wireless model, even though unnecessary) which i have used in my previous apartment, and it worked, and now i cannot get it to work with my new setup. Before it was XP to XP, now it's 98 to XP, does that make a difference? Also, it was cable internet before, whereas now the connection is DSL, it worked yesterday for a mere hour or so and this morning when i went to go online, it wasn't working. I'm not very familiar with the proceedures with 98 and I have a feeling that this is where my problem is. Can anyone please help me????

 

Did your DSL come with a setup disk? Cable is "plug it in and ready to go" but DSL usually needs to be set up. Home DSL also usually needs a login and password (unlike business DSL).

 

hmmm xp to 98 .... i have had my trials and tribulations with those to being together.... try making a xp network floppy... u can do that in my network places in xp in add a network place. then put that in the 98 machine. and yes look at the dsl first.

 

I have set up the page for the router with the password and username, and it still will not connect on the page.
I can't find the cd that came with the router but i still have the quick install pamphlet thing that came with it (i swear my old roommates ate cds and waranties for fun)
Oh well, i'll try the xp disk thing now, maybe that'll work

 

You should not be using any of the DSL ISP software on machines attached to the broadband router. I'd reset the router to factory defaults, then enter the correct information on the WAN page for your account name and password with the ISP. Also, make sure you power cycle the DSL modem after having it connected to a PC, that may also be confusing the router.

 

In the first post it was mentioned "Before it was XP to XP, now it's 98 to XP".
What was XP to XP etc?

Typically:

1. You just connect the DSL/Cable modem to the WAN port on the router. Power cycle the DLS/Cable modem. Wait a minute or so.

2. The router is set up for DHCP. If you need to configure it for a login as in a previous post then do that as well. Most ISP's I recommend don't require this so it just depends on what you actually have. Since it was working, I assume you either know you had to configure something here or not. Then power cycle this after the DSL/Cable modem.

3. You set the workstations to get an IP address automatically.

4. Turn on the workstations.

Then run IPCONFIG on each workstation and see what IP addresses they get assigned. The main IP should have the same scheme (e.g. 192.168.0.x)