hmm so router might be best as you say... its difficult to find out what set up she has, becuase they are old (ie no idea re technology) and dont speak any english.

wow just been trying to find out about their modem. their provider, pccw, does 1000m fibre to the home, for about £33 a month.

The word dial is the confusing bit. Some of us know what you mean...it usually means PPPoE session initiation.

In MS Windows they re-used the 'dial-up' interface for users, hence why dial is often mentioned.

http://www.geoexpat.com/forum/119/thread150191.html

Suggests as I thought, PPPoE connection, so almost any cable/DSL router will do, i.e. one with an Etherent WAN interface.

No idea on local store names to look in, if you pay for my ticket will happily visit and set it all up for you. Given its gigabit you want something newish, best bet is see what others in Hong Kong are using.

In reply to a post by _Steve:

it isnt 56k dial up... it is broadband speed, its just not always on. the modem dials the connection everytime.

DOH! I saw "old-style modem" and, er, you know....

Edited by deleted (Wed 13-Oct-10 19:11:54)

Yep thats it.

Right, i;m here now. Turns out it is a wireless modem. But I cannot access the router's admin page (configip says gateway is 192.168.8.1 but this diverts to setup.net - which is not a local webpage but trying to access the proper setup.net on the internet.

what d i need to do to convince the browser not to go to www.setup.net but to the routers pages?????

have read the user guide, it doesnt mention this

What's the IP address of the PC?
What's the IP address of the router?

Go to a command prompt and do

Route Print 0.0.0.0

What routes are active?


You need the PC and the router in the same subnet.

in chinese:

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0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 192.168.8.1 192.168.8.2 4245
0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 ¦b³sµ²¤W 58.153.60.100 21
===========================================================================

Try
http://lifehacker.com/5369381/turn-your-windows-7-pc...
Does this makes any sense...?

Connectify will do the job if your mother-in-law's PC is running Windows 7.