Wireless connections

The USB dongle that came with my Netgear router needed manual setting
up: the press-button process never worked.

Wasn't that difficult, though I recall there was a stage where it
offered manual set-up, but only after a couple of retries.

 

I'd hazard a guess because the hub is Netgear and the dongles are
Cisco, that might explain why the one-button isn't working. It
probably should, but I don't imagine the standards are particularly
well implemented.

 

Ben spoke:

Now when I said much the same thing here a few years ago I was
denounced as a know-nothing numptie!

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There's a reason for that.

 

Not for the first time, mind - and certainly not the last!

 

did they even have push button to sync wpa key kit a few years ago?

 

But as they were both supplied by Virgin for the express purpose of
wirelessly linking the PC to the hub, one would've thought the pair would
.... pair..

Anyway, I've gone the wired route again. New wire from the PC in my music
room (the old one was too short for the relocated/replaced router) and all
buried behind the skirting boards. Can't see any wires, can't trip over them
and they fucking just work.

 

A fair point. In that case, I'd have been shouting at Virgin to send
out an engineer to make the kit work.

When they fitted my 50Mb service (an upgrade from 10Mb), the chap
didn't leave until he'd checked that all my machines could access the
internet by the mechanism I'd chosen.

Of course, I had to do it all for him as they're all Macs, but at
least he checked it all worked.

 

Well as much as I love the speed the Virgin broadband gives (never less than
29 meg since I went to the 30meg setup) and the reliability of their
service, I can't fucking handle their "technicians". They appear to know
less than me when it comes to the TV/Interwebby stuff and it took them 8
visits to sort out my TV. I'd only get them here if there was absolutely no
alternative. Wires gave me the alternative, but the 2 wireless dongles are
winging their way back for a refund.

My chap was a bloke from UPS and I didn't think he'd be much use either

They (Virgin) didn't send an engineer, just a package and a phone number.
The bloke on the phone was good (Scots geezer) but the problem was the
dongles. They're fucking shite. And to think I got the Virgin dongles so I
wouldn't have "issues". Shows what I bloody know eh?