Oh Shoot!

yes I did it all by my own self, well I put the wires in the right place, then Rie sorted out passwording it and setting it up to the computer. I did try hard though. Maybe you should have waited until daughter was home. You are a clever fish though so you shouldn't have too much trouble.

here the wire broadband is too expensive.my hubby does have a wireless broadband but he uses it only during emergencies.sometimes we have power failure here,then the wireless does come in handy.

I refuse to help you set it up, because if you are off computer for more than 24 hours, then maybe I'll get a real life phone call.........................LOL

Hi P1kef1sh, I am a complete computer novice as you know but in April I got the Wi-fi package so I could get my younger daughter a laptop and guess what, I did set it up myself. I just had to put a disk in and follow the instructions it was that simple. Hopefully you one is the same. Huggles. Ellie :D

Hi there pike. It is easy provided someone shows you at least once what to do... at least that was the case with me. A relative of mine showed me how to install it - i have a wireless connection laptop and a regular cable computer both plugged in in an internet router that splits the connection that i have.

I did set up a cable broadband connection.it was easy;i just put the right cables in the right slot and followed the exact instructions given to me by a technician..Now i've done it so many times ,i feel like an expert..Wireless couldn't be that hard,i m sure u'll be able to set it up in the ten days u have left

I haven't tried it but I do have a wireless router and a wireless card in my computer so I will be able to move it around when I get my fibernet set up. I haven't a clue as how to do that. I will have to follow the instructions in the manual word for word...or let someone do it. Which no one I know that knows how to do it lives close enough. They live almost 2 hours away and with this weather we have it be closer to 2-1/2-3 maybe. For those who have done it several time it might be a cinch but for me it is no cinch although I wish it was.

My daughter did hers without any problems. I've just gone from dial-up to satellite and I got the technician to set my laptop up as a wireless connection. It isn't working right. I cannot connect to some places and I get network timeouts a lot of the time...sometimes I cannot do anything online. I have to go away for a while and hope for the best when I come back. Sometimes it lasts for hours sometimes 5 minutes. I have a great signal but a lousy connection. I was going to do my own discussion and ask if this was normal.

Not me, you don't want me dealing with techie stuff.

When we got had sky installed, the guy did the tv and the broadband but then we didnt have broadband in so he could just set us up with it. Your cable guy probably left your broadband as you still have some days left on your broadband account. It really cant be that hard can it???

I'm guessing you'll be all set up by now! (I'm working my emails backwards, so came to this one last ... must get a better system ...) Always beware the man who says 'it's easy'. That's like believing the man who says 'trust me, I'm almost a gynaecologist'. I have no clue how easy it is or indeed, is not. My husband set up ours and I don't recall any foul language - but it's different for everyone, and he's set it up for plenty of clients and used PLENTY of foul language ... so there are obviously many and varied anomalies. Hope yours WAS a cinch!

I don't even remember, but I think when we bundled ours, our son set it up. If he can do it, you can, too. Don't be askeered, little man. You can do it! Starts chanting: Pikey, pikey, go pikey. You can do it! Go pikey!

Hi ya p1kef1sh Well I hope you manage to figure it out or someone else to help you and you don't go offline. My boyfriend at the time sorted mine out for me but now I need to sort out another computer that my mum gave me for my boys and I haven't got a clue how to do it. I have been told it is easy to do but it always is when you know how to do it!!

Camodad did. I have no idea if it was easy or not because I know nothing about that kind of stuff.

We just switched from cable tv to satellite with three different receivers on 3 different televisions (HD receiver on our large flat screen tv, PVR on one, and regular on the one in our bedroom). It has been a major pain in the butt switching over to satellite and sometimes wish we could go back to cable. It has been almost two weeks with this and it has taken at least a week to get everything working properly. We still have problems switching from satellite tv to Playstation (which I care nothing about). We have one remote that won't adjust on/off or volume so need to use the tv remote therefore we have two remotes in our bedroom. The satellite went out on us Friday night in the middle of a show (fortunately our cable hasn't been disconnected yet so we just switched over for a few minutes and then went back and it was fine) but only on the one television. Thought the PVR would be great except when you tape a show the television has to be on the actual channel you are taping. How stupid is that? What if I am going out and want to tape a couple of shows on different channels? Can't do it, can I? But I do have it set up to tape my soaps every day in case I have to run out. We can't tape from the VCR, or at least we haven't figured that out. I have talked to so many technicians on the phone for such long periods of time that I was going stir crazy, losing patience. I told them I thought technology was supposed to make things easier!

I'm glad to see that you are still here with us. I just have lovely dialup. I have never had broadband but would love to one day if they ever make it available here and more affordable.

Hi P1Ke! I recently upgraded to faster broadband with a certain mobile phone provider that have an "Airy" Element about them! Their wireless router came with an install disc that I played on my puter-it was able to tell me if I had the filters in wrong or that the phone line wasn't hooked up..didn't take 15 minutes from taking the thing out of the box until I was back online! Good Luck with Yours!

Yes, i always set it up myself, i just switched from broadband to adsl. My broadband company got together with 2 other companies and went on with a different name but the internet connection didn't lol. I had days when i lost connection more then 10 times, so i decided enough is enough and switched to another company. I never had any problems installing my internet connection.

we usually always did ours but i think this last time with comcast we ended up calling them for help because of something.. i cant remember why

My husband set up our wireless DSL. He said it was easy. But I wouldn't want to try it, but think I could if I had someone telling me what to do.