Setting Up Wireless, PLEASE HELP...

Cable

It's bizzare, on the laptop I am getting messages that I am connected to the wireless network, I am getting good connectivity but I can't get online. No internet, no AOL, no nothing. I have to believe it has something to do with the way I entered the IP addresses. Is there a rule of thumb for doing this?

Thank you for the help,

I pretty much just went through the motions on the setup program.

I got it!!! I don't know what I did, but after almost 4 hours I got it! Thank you to all who replied as I am sure I will be back again soon!!

Jay

Duane Arnold wrote:

What type of connection do you have from the router to the Internet?

Cable or xDSL??

Have you plugged the Cable or DSL modem to the WAN port in the router ??

The IP address is normally assigned by the DHCP server on the router, have you configured the router to connect to the cable modem?

Do you have any other systems connected to the router via a wire ??

Well whatever is happening did you go to the Command Prompt and enter IPconfig /all and see what IP the bad machine is getting as opposed to giving the same command on the good machine.

If the bad machine is getting the 169 IP from the DHCP server on the router then the O/S is timing out and assigning the 169 IP. The IP will not allow the machine to access the Internet, since it never got an IP from the DHCP server like the good machine did that can access the Internet. You're not going to be able to use a router's static IP for the wireless NIC either

There maybe some kind of mis-config of the wireless NIC or router or one of them is defective. But I would say that it's some kind of mis-config happening. Most of the time the WEP or WPA keys are not the same between the two devices.

Other than that, I would say get on the phone for each product and have them figure it out to reslove your issues. You can have 1000% signal strength between the card and the router but if they are not talking to each other, then it doesn't mean a thing.

Duane :)