I was helping my sister a few years ago who had a wireless LAN problem. She was with Telewest, and they had provided a Belkin router. I couldn't tell you the model number. I managed to get her Windows laptop talking to the router again, but no internet. I did a little digging, and I discover that Telewest had configure the router NOT to give out IP addresses, but the laptop was getting an address from somewhere. It was shortly after that, that I noticed that I could see loads of shared folders and printers. Some of the names and descriptions of those shares indicated that they were emanating from various other houses down the street! Yup, you guessed it Telewest had basically configured the entire street as a flat network!!!
Now... do you think I could get the Telewest help line to sort things out? No, I couldn't, but the nice chaps at Belkin were able to talk me through getting a working internet connection!
