- Oct 29, 2013
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I just bought an EA6300 Linksys Cisco "Smart" WiFi router. I plugged it directly into the wall's Ethernet socket, turned it on, connected to it with my W7 laptop and the supplied password in the guide book. At 100% signal strength, the Internet icon affirmed I was 'connected to the Internet', yet every Internet service on my laptop is unavailable to me.
I skimmed over the book again and saw I was supposed to connect it directly to the modem, as opposed to the wall. I took it down to the basement and hooked it up. There's a solid green light and a flickering amber one below the router's occupied Ethernet port, if that means anything. I went back up to my laptop, connection now down to 75% strength, but although I'm connected to it again, it now reads I have no Internet access. It has five green bars on the Windows connection tray, so I assume 75% is still plenty enough.
The only other step I missed in the book was setting up the router with a personal account at linksyssmartwifi.com, but that requires that I access it via the router - which, as you can see, I can't.
Let's assume firewalls and the laptop's WiFi radio aren't the issue. (Trust me, I'm speaking from experience.) There were also no icons or indications I needed to install or set anything up.
I'm lost.
I skimmed over the book again and saw I was supposed to connect it directly to the modem, as opposed to the wall. I took it down to the basement and hooked it up. There's a solid green light and a flickering amber one below the router's occupied Ethernet port, if that means anything. I went back up to my laptop, connection now down to 75% strength, but although I'm connected to it again, it now reads I have no Internet access. It has five green bars on the Windows connection tray, so I assume 75% is still plenty enough.
The only other step I missed in the book was setting up the router with a personal account at linksyssmartwifi.com, but that requires that I access it via the router - which, as you can see, I can't.
Let's assume firewalls and the laptop's WiFi radio aren't the issue. (Trust me, I'm speaking from experience.) There were also no icons or indications I needed to install or set anything up.
I'm lost.
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