I brought my wireless router from Hawaii to Thailand and have been trying off and on for 3 days to get it to work. At first I thought that the two had a language problem – one being Thai and the other American but that was not the issue.  I did manage to log into both (separately) and check settings, reset, reboot, etc but nothing worked.  I could see my router but only got a local connection.  The router couldn’t see the modem.

So it was time for some research.  I went to Thaivisa.com forum and searched for “maxnet wireless” and found a post that was similar but for a different brand router.  I decided to give it a try.

First, I reset my router.  Then I logged into my router and disable DHCP.  Then I connected the ADSL modem to the router – but – not in the “normal” way.  Not to the one, stand alone WAN connector – but rather to the 1 of the 4 output connectors.  Seemed backwards to me but lo and behold, it worked.

Next up was getting my wife’s laptop to connect.  She has a COMPAQ and it has a little button on top of the laptop next to the power indicator that is orange and you are supposed to hold it for a second or two and it should turn blue.  Well, it did but as soon as I let go of the button, back to orange and no connection.

I could hold the button in with my finger and get Internet wireless connectivity – but this was not a solution.  Found the driver for the wireless and downloaded and installed it – but sill a no-go.

I surrendered temporarily to research why the button won’t stay on and then decided to go out for a smoke and saw that my wife’s laptop wireless button was blue – it was on.  The only thing she did was plug it in to the wall as the battery was at about 45% and needed charging.

Go figure on both counts.