Webuser Forums: Problems setting up Linksys Router

Hi Everyone hope someone can help with my problem

My brother brought a laptop and wanted to go wireless with it,He is on virgin media and brought the correct wireless router to use,Has he has really not much knowledge of setting computers up etc he asked me to do it has i have a fair bit of how things work etc,Will we set up the wireless router has per intstructions then asked the laptop to find the connection (vista home premium) and it found it with no problem the only thing was it would not connect to the internet,all we would get was local connection only we made sure that everything was ok but still no internet connection.we searched the linksys site for info and done all that was asked but still no joy with the laptop connecting to the internet,all we could still get was local connection only and the signal was 100%,We switiched the laptop and pc and wireless router,cable modem off and banged our heads to gether for ideas we switiched everything back on and you would not believe this but the laptop had a internet connection and would connect to the internet 100%

Then we tried the desktop pc would you believe it now the desktop has no internet connection it keeps saying that it needs an ip address we look at the repair side of connections it will go away and find an ip address but the desktop will not connection to the internet,

Has anyone come across this problem themselves because this we are beginnging to go bald with pulling our hair out

Sorry if this abit long winded but i cannot discribe it any other way,if i have missed out any info please let me know and i will come back to you.

Look forward to your replies

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