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Tigerdirect business is not responsible for typographical or photographic errors. Eg, you have to give a name anything you want to the base station, to the network itself, etc. The mn700 is a wireless router with a single 10100baset wan port and four 10100baset lan ports. The mn700 wireless base station, microsofts new 802. Buy the 54mbps wireless router at a super low price. Like most folks, they either had the dsl set up for them, or did the initial configuration without understanding or remembering what they did, so im writing this as a.
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So, my question is, could this be the problem to my dropped connections. I was hoping to get the newer wrt54g connected but have had no luck. If i try to connect via the mn 700 wireless modem wired, i cant connect to the internet. Intelligent software automatically detects your internet service and modem settings for easy. Before you start, back up the current settings for your base station. Microsoft broadband networking wireless base station mn700.
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