Thanks roy. I just tried that but it comes up with Error 500, internal server error whatever that means!

Tomorrow morning I will try typing in the DOS what you suggest and see what happens.

What is this IP address then please??? Don't understand what that is even!

Just noticed in thepackaging there's a couple of wires he hasn't used either. On he says is a telephone wire, which we already had to connect to the modem/router. the other wire has ends (both the same) as the end of the telephone wire? We have put the other wire (new one) from the modem/router to the pc in the only place it fits too being the ethernet? Personally, I just don't understand why the pc doesn't recognise that we have connected something different up which it normally does? Should it have done and let us know or asked something? The manual that came with it is pretty useless I must say, and I've been on their website and copied the PDF manual, but it's just as useless and in fact is the same as the little booklet.
Here's what we got:
http://www.sweex.com/producten.php?s...l=427&detail=d

ok just read the manual

ok then.lol

its useless

think i know what needs to be done though.

network settings on the pc need to be set, the old modem uninstalled usually helps and then need to logon on to the router setup menu and configure it for your isp.

Awww its a shame you didn't get the Belkin one Helen - they have got everything in you need and they are good and really easy to set up - I could have helped you then.

This is the one I have I think

The thing is Ceiron, the disk that came with it, comes as pictures, i.e. I put it in, up comes the window "what do you want to open this with" and it's on Kodak Easyshare so I clickon that, and it's pages and pages of "stuff" which I haven't even looked at yet, but Dave said it should be a disk with a driver or software on it, not what we've got? I don't want to start uninstalling my model when I'm on AOL and you know what they're like! Lol! I might never be in here again, and I just couldn't take that!!!

Oh dear Foxy, so do I mate!!!

no its an ethernet modem so has no drivers

If the pc doesn't recognise it, then how can I find a menu for this c*ap then? Lol! Surely there should be some sort of software with it, on a disk or something. Maybe I should put that disk in again and take a closer look, but it's all pages and pages of stuff if ya know what I mean, all set out in pictures in my Kodak picture software?

nope

you plug in the ethernet cable and turn the modem on

you then go to internet explorer and type in 10.0.0.2 into the address bar and use admin as login name and epicrouter as password

Looking at the manual, the default IP address is 10.0.0.2

So in a browser, you need to type:

http://10.0.0.2

in the address line in order to get to the router/modem in order to configure it.

The default user name is: admin and the password is: epicrouter.

In order to configure it, you need your ISP details - username, password etc.

Well a massive, "thankyou" to you Ceiron and Roy, and tomorrow morning, crack of dawn, I will be playing around with this then. I didn't know any of what you've just told me, shows how much (little!) I know about this sort of thing I will also make a note of my current details with AOL before I lose them - perhaps!! I might just do it, you never know!

Can't thank you enough for your time and trouble!

Oh 'eck...I had one of these...
Um...for about three hours.
It was ghastly...the admin and epicrouter passwords had been changed when the firemware had been updated, but mention of this was not made in the manual or online.
The setup protocol that was *preset* for BT actually wasn't, and kept trying to connect to NTL.
The firmware upgrade to remedy this locked me out of all but the lowest level of access again...
It is now being used to prop up the electic cable storage bin, and I have a BT wireless router/modem.
Let me know how it goes...hopefully Ceiron will have more luck at untangling the tangled web...