Hi all I've just joined this forum hope someone out there can help me.

I was running windows me on my hp and my daughter wanted the internet on so i went and purchesed a belkin router and wirless usb adapter. I put the router on my computer downstairs with the adsl modem and took the usb adapter upstairs the hp, i followed the instructions and installed the software but nothing happened so i rang belkin and he said i had to update the drivers and they might of been old so i did, then i installed that on the hp and then proceeded to re-install the belkin software but again no luck.

I decided to install windows xp OVER THE TOP OF ME which i was told i could do and since my computer was running downstairs on it i had a copy, so i put the disk in and did the installation everything seem to go ok as much as i understood anyway so the next day i tried to install the software for the usb adapter and everything was going ok and then it asked me to plug the usb adapter in so i did BUT nothing else happened the new hardware screen whichs appears down the bottom right hand side never came up and it didn't detect the usb adapter so i carn't get the internet on this machine because the new hardware screen does not come up, i have since installed the printer back on so i know it is working ok.

Please has anybody got any idea at all, and if so can you make it as simple as possible as i am not a computer person.

Thankyou Kluger

how is the router connected to the modem?

is the PC connected to the router via a ethernet cable?

Hi Brain Damager,

The router is connected to the modem via the ethernet cable.

The PC is connected to the router via ethernet cable too.

We have a lap top running on the boradband with no trouble this has centrino so it is wirless.

Thanks kluger