My father has an old Thinkpad 600E running Window 98 and has just signed up to Sky Broadband. He has a PCmCIA ethernet card but doesn't know how to set up the laptop with the router/modem Sky have supplied. Is there anywhere where there is a step by step instruction about how to set up the laptop so that it doesn't try to use the dialup modem and instead connects directly with the boadband connection? Thanks for any help.

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The ISP should have instructions. On most Broadband you just plug in the Cat 5 cable to the network card, and your done. He may need to set IE so it never dials if it is set up to auto dial the old dialup modem.

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You will probably get more help from a broadband networking forum.  broadbandreports.com 
may be of more assistance or Google for a Sky forum..  It should be possible, but 
Sky doesn't support Win 9X.  Minimum is W2K/XP or higher.  Reason is that Win 9X 
may have to have protocols added that come in W2K/XP so it is a more complicated 
process for setup.  You might find someone in your area that has successfully set 
it up with Win 9X.

Using a wired connection could simplify the setup process versus wireless but either 
way, it will take more work than W2K/XP.  You will need to add some additional software 
from a Win 9X install CD if you have never had a LAN set up on the portable machine 
before.  That info is on a lot of forums like practicallynetworked.com and others.

Generally, you will be better off wired with Win 9X than wireless.  Many people, 
(including me) had nothing but problems with wireless networking in Win 98/SE/ME. 
 (Wireless wasn't really designed for Win 9X anyway where as, W2K and XP are)







On Tuesday, January 29, 2008 at 12:54 pm, Sheffix wrote:

>My father has an old Thinkpad 600E running Window 98 and has just signed up to Sky 

>Broadband. He has a PCmCIA ethernet card but doesn't know how to set up the laptop 

>with the router/modem Sky have supplied. Is there anywhere where there is a step 

>by step instruction about how to set up the laptop so that it doesn't try to use 

>the dialup modem and instead connects directly with the boadband connection? Thanks 

>for any help. 

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Many thanks for taking the trouble to reply to my post, it is much appreciated. In the end I got it working though am still not too sure how. I've prompted my father to buy a newer computer but he seems happy with the Thinkpad. Thanks again.

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Sometimes luck is on our side!  ;-)

But you are correct that he should upgrade.  Win 98 is no longer supported and on 
broadband, he is 1000% more likely to get hacked as there are few programs and utilities 
to secure his machine.  All support for Win 9X is being dropped by virus and malware 
programs.  There are still a few but they will end within a couple of years max.

Good Luck!!  :-)







On Wednesday, January 30, 2008 at 1:23 pm, Sheffix wrote:

>

>Many thanks for taking the trouble to reply to my post, it is much appreciated. 
In 

>the end I got it working though am still not too sure how. I've prompted my father 

>to buy a newer computer but he seems happy with the Thinkpad. Thanks again. 

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