Problem with connection throw wireless!

Involved Joined: Sep 07, 2004 Posts: 354 Location: Sweden

Hi.

I've a lapptop with wireless. At home I could connect to internet before throw a wireless router. But suddently I cannot do this now!

I have contact with router but not with internet.

The funny thing is that at my job I use wireless connection and it works fine.

Does anyone know what could be wrong?

Please help. I'm tired of modem and 52k. speed Crying or Very sad

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well first simple step would be to use the wizard to get an internet connection,thats done within internet properties.

Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 11:09 am

hitwalker, thanks.

Yes I've done this before. Acctuelly, I didn't need to do this. I just could get connect to router and surf!

I hade contact to internet before.

Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 11:57 am

reboot the router. Your provider DNS is lost.

How to know that?
try an IP instead of DNS like: http://213.75.12.50/ vs http://planet.nl/

Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 1:25 pm

and i wouldnt be suprised if your isp changed a few things.

Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 3:14 pm

djmaze, I've tried that too.

The thing is that I have 2 computers connected. A pc and a lapptop. With my pc I can geting connect. But at same time not with my lapptop!!!

And without doing anything I can get connected at my job (direct connection) with my lapptop!

Isn't it strange?

Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 3:26 pm

well there are a few other step....
first reset your router...
make sure it grabs whatever ip you get from your isp.
also check if it gets automatically your dns setting.
in the netherlands we had a same problem long ago.
so try to get your isp dns server,theat usualy 2 ip's.
put them inside internet options...
dont forget to reboot all the time during changes.

Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 7:18 pm

izone wrote:

djmaze, I've tried that too.

The thing is that I have 2 computers connected. A pc and a lapptop. With my pc I can geting connect. But at same time not with my lapptop!!!

Isn't it strange?

No it isn't, there's a difference between finding a network and having access to it.
Most wifi's have many settings how to allow/deny wireless access. Either by fixed MAC, WEP, login or anything else the creators came up with.
If you didn't properly secure your wifi network some guy in his car or just your neighbour might have fun tracing all your data traffic and setting up your router.

Many people buy a wifi but few read the advisories that are given in the documentation. If the docs don't mention it then go back to the store and replace your $40 router for one that costs atleast the triple of that ammount.

registered · Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 10:43 pm

Is your router giving your laptop a proper IP? It is probably set to DHCP, so it should be automatically providing one. Check that there's a proper gateway and DNS

Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2006 4:23 am

djmaze, thanks, but I've done this. By finding network I ment I have access to it both from my pc and laptop.

evaders99, thanks to you too.

And yes I THINK I have got a proper IP. When I check it with "ipconfig /all" in DOS I can see that I have got an IP. DHCP is on.

It seems that my laptop is connecting throw another setting and luck itself in an invalid IP. Is there any way to check it out?

Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2006 6:09 pm

Can you ping the router? The other computer? Can you ping outside to another site?

Posted: Sun Mar 05, 2006 5:20 am

Yes I can ping the router. But Not any place on the internet. I can ping the other computer in same network (my pc) too.

Posted: Sun Mar 05, 2006 5:21 am

And my pc has access to internet throw this connection! But not my laptop!

Posted: Sun Mar 05, 2006 2:10 pm

Disable and Enable your wireless connection on your laptop. Re-connect and try again.