Making your wireless router from Virgin Media work with your Mac
Finally, I’m up and running with Virgin Media broadband at home. They give you a free wireless router, but all the setup instructions and the setup cd’s are for Windows. The bloke who installed the cabling suggested I rung the £80,000 a minute phone line. Panic not people, follow these instructions…
With everything turned off…
- Plug the router into the modem they give you
- plug the router into your machine by cable
- Turn on the computer
- Turn on the modem
- Wait a couple of minutes
- Turn on the router
- Joy – Internet is yours!
Follow setup instructions as per Windows (eg. log into it via pointing your browser to http://192.168.1.1/
Why these noddy instructions, well… If you plug the modem into your computer directly it will work BUT the modem will remember your MAC address of the computer and not talk to the router (until you turn everything odd). If you start the router without the modem having establish an external connection it fails to find the external IP address (dodgy Virgin firmware doesn’t pick up the connection unless it’s established before the router kicks up).
Really shouldn’t be as hard as it was, there was nothing to it, but it still took me a day.
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