Connected to network but no internet access

Jan 15, 2008 2 Replies

Hi,



I have an Acer laptop with built in Wi-Fi card, and it works fine on my home network.



However, I've been trying to connect to my parents network and am having a problem. The network is detected fine, the encryption code is accepted no problem, and the computer says that it is connected to the network with excellent signal strength. But, when I launch a browser, either Firefox or IE, it thinks about it for a bit (the connection/ download progress bar goes about half-way) and then goes to an "unable to access this site" page. The same thing happens no matter what website I try to visit.



Does anyone have a clue what might be going on here?



Thank you



Paul


On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 04:55:04 -0800 (PST), PRW wrote in :

Probably a security setting. Turn off _all_ security while troubleshooting.

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