A mate of mine in on NTL broadband and he connects via a Belkin Pre-N router and a Belkin 54g card in his PC upstairs.
He's been having loads of problems with dropped connections and it won't connect at all now. When I opened "network Connections", the wireless network icon just keeps alternating between "disconnected" (with the red cross on it) and "aquiring netword ID" (or something like that).
On my wireless setup, with a Belkin 54g router and Linksys 54g card, when you first configure the card you get the "aquiring nedwork ID" message for about 5 seconds and then it works fine. On his, it just keeps alternating between the two messages and never actually picks up an IP address.
"Geoff" wrote in news:ugnQf.33908$ snipped-for-privacy@text.news.blueyonder.co.uk:
Sounds like the network is being detected by the cliet PC but communication isn't working so the client PC cannot acquire an IP address from the DHCP server in the router.
Q: Are any other wireless networks showing up?
Suggestions:
Try switching encryption off altogether at the router, just to check for that as a possible cause.
Try selecting a different wireless channel on the router.
"Geoff" wrote in message news:ugnQf.33908$ snipped-for-privacy@text.news.blueyonder.co.uk...
Tell your mate how to find the group, then he can be asked questions and given advice directly. It will save having to pass messages backwards and forwards through you.
Thanks for the advice. When I was at his place yesterday, I tried turning the encryption off and changing channels, but it didn't seem to make much difference??
In order to get an internet connection, we had to cart the whole PC down stairs and make a cable connection to the router. This of course works fine and, as you'd expect the wireless signall strength is very good, but it still can't aquire an ip address??
I wondered if there was any conflict between the belkin configuration software and the XP config software???
I tried taking the belkin software off, but then on restart the PC was asking for network card drivers and I couldn't find any on the install CD. The only option I had was to reinstall the belkin software.
I run my wirelss network just using the windows config software and nothing else and it works great??
Is there likely to be a problem in using the belkin software??
Just to clarify a point.....do NOT use windows to automatically reconnect the network.
My PC with the Belkin card is packed away at the moment, but from memory theres a tick box on the Belkin software to allow windows to reconnect, and also one under the XP wizard.
DO NOT tick either.
The Belkin software will remember and restore the connection OK.
I'm having exactly the same problem with my Belkin wireless card connecting to my wireless connection. All my other computers connect fine apart from the one using the Belkin card
"Geoff" wrote in message news:knwQf.34027$ snipped-for-privacy@text.news.blueyonder.co.uk...
Could you please run through all that again please? I am having exactly the same problem. I have tried to connect using the Windows XP facility and so, I have probably cocked things up.
What do I need to do? If I reinstall the wireless card, what are the next steps? My network is secured with WPA-PSK and so, whereabouts do I input the passkey to access the network? I can only find a part that asks me for a username, however one is not used.
Could you please run through all that again please? I am having exactly the same problem. I have tried to connect using the Windows XP facility and so, I have probably cocked things up.
What do I need to do? If I reinstall the wireless card, what are the next steps? My network is secured with WPA-PSK and so, whereabouts do I input the passkey to access the network? I can only find a part that asks me for a username, however one is not used.
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