I HAVE A BELKIN WIRELESS G ROUTER (F5D7230-4) WHICH WORKED WRLL WITH MY WINDOWS XP AND VIRGIN BROADBAND. MY NEW COMPUTER IS VISTA THE ROUTER WILL NOT WORK. IS MY ROUTER INCAPABLE OF USING VISTA?

This is a highly technical question. The technician that installs your fios can help you with an answer. If i'm not mistaken your new fios will come with a special router designed to change the data your recieving to acceptable format and communicate with your other devices. As I stated the tech who installs your fios can further instruct you as to the exact configuration. Hope this helps.

The Router supports a variety of networking environments including Mac OS® 8.x, 9.x, X v10.x, Linux®, Windows® 98, Me, NT®, 2000, XP, and Vista®

usb stick OS Compatibility: Windows® 2000, Windows® XP 32 bit, Windows Vista® 32 bit

What is the Operating system on the laptop ?
If it is XP then in the bottom right hand corner you will find Wireless network connection ( looks like 1 computer monitor). Use that icon to connect to the wireless network.
If it is windows Vista, then in the bottom right hand corner you will find 2 computer monitor icon. Use that icon to connect to the wireless network.
If it is Windows 98/ME/2000 then use the adapter utility to connect to the wireless network.
For MAC you will see the AIRPORT icon at the top.

Check the wireless settings of the router first . Make sure that you have all the wireless settings of the router. If you are not sure about the settings, then open the router set up and check the settings.

Click Here for step by step instructions on how to connect to the wireless network and troubleshooting steps

Connect the modem up to the lan port on the router. Or if you know what you are doing you can change the ipadreess on the router.

1. check if there are lights on the specific router port where you have connected the Vista (e.g. if it is on port 2, check if there are lights on #2 at the front panel of the router).
2. check the ip address by going to command prompt (click start-run-type cmd press enter. on the command prompt, type ipconfig/all)
3. ip address should be similar to what your Windows XP is getting. Subnet mask, gateway, and DNS servers should be identical.

Eg. If XP has a 192.168.1.100 IP, your Vista should have 192.168.1.x IP address where x is a variable number other than 100.

4. If your IP address, subnet mask, default gateway, and DNS seems aligned for both PCs, check your browser settings. Open IE, go to tools, internet options, network connection and make sure that never dial a connection is selected.

can you get a phone number?

the router may be block by Virgin Media, so that way people can't steal internet from it (that is if you have it unsecured) you may have to set it up with virgin over the phone, or have a local broadband provider try to set it up

you still have to use the modem from virgin, mine is setup the same but with a different router, you have the virgin rounter connected to the wireless router then the belkin wireless rounter connectes to you pc instead of the virgin router, your gonna have to log onto the router and setup some security to make the connection safe from others using it.

Hello,

If you have your pc connected directly to your Virgin Broadband modem through the ETH/LAN port on your pc then disconnect it from that port on your PC.

Then connect the same cable to your Belkin Routers Internet/WAN port. Then take the extra cable that came with the Belkin router and connect it to 1 of the 4 lan ports on the Belkin router. Then connect the other end to your PC in the LAN port.

After that, restart your PC and everything should be fine.

Thanks

Just so your not lonely - I will do some research into ntl virgin (is this the full name of ISP?)

What version of Windows Vista - it makes a huge difference!

Jeff

I have a feeling I might be able to find the router setup information if you can tell me the correct answer to the prompts needing answered by this link

Virgin Media Broadband Help

The model number of the Belkin router may be of interest if detailed configuration instructions are required and because there is the a report of an issue with a specific belkin router model on the Virgin Media site that appears to require a firmware update to work well with that particular internet service.