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Strong Signal Cannot Find Server

OK, here's the deal...

I have read many suggestions to problems similar to this, but none have worked. Matbe it's because the solutions werent specific to my machine. Any help would be appreciated:

I am running XP home on my desktop and XP Pro on my notebook. I recently added a WRT54G for wireless access and am having trouble with my notebook. I have configured the router and everything seems to be working fine. My notebook always has a signal strength of 'Excellent'. The problem is that I cannot access any web pages. I continually get 'Cannot find server or DNS error' messages. I can successfully ping the router, so I know that there is a connection there. My feeble attempt at a diagnosis is that it is not a connection problem but a settings problem on the notebook. Is there anyone that can help. This seems to be a fairly common question in this group. One would imply that there is an easy solution right???

Reply to
ripdoozer
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Incorrect proxy set up perhaps?

Reply to
CWatters

It is most likely a DNS problem. Are you using DHCP (dynamic IP addresses), or do you have a static IP?

Open a command prompt window, type in the command 'ipconfig /all' and post the results here.

Larry

Reply to
Larry Finger

I am using DHCP. All settings are the same as my desktop aside from the ip address (which ends in 101 instead of 100)

Also, I tried to connect the notebook directly and it still wouldn't load any pages. The notebook belongs to my school district (I am a teacher) and worked with my home router at one point. Then something went horribly wrong...

Larry F> > OK, here's the deal...

do you have a static IP?

results here.

Reply to
ripdoozer

I am using DHCP. All settings are the same as my desktop aside from the ip address (which ends in 101 instead of 100)

Also, I tried to connect the notebook directly and it still wouldn't load any pages. The notebook belongs to my school district (I am a teacher) and worked with my home router at one point. Then something went horribly wrong...

Larry F> > OK, here's the deal...

do you have a static IP?

results here.

Reply to
ripdoozer

Oh piece of cake then.. Just have one of your students fix it in few seconds, and buy them a bag of chips (or cupcakes if you actually want to give them cake for a piece of cake).... :)

Reply to
Peter Pan

Just as an easy experiment: what happens when you briefly disable Windows firewall?

Art

Reply to
Arthur Shapiro

many schools use a proxy server, for filtering, make sure proxy server is set to none... or whatever your ISP wants.

snipped-for-privacy@yahoo.com wrote:

Reply to
lars

I have disabled the proxy which is nromally used, I changed this setting in the LAN settings under Internet options. And the firewall settings are off due to the fact that the district servers filter all internet traffic. This one I set under 'Internet Connection Firewall' under the Advanced tab of my wireless network connection window.It doesn't seem to be either of them. Am I changing these settings in the right places? I installed Firefox and am experiencing the same problems.

lars wrote:

Reply to
ripdoozer

When you say you "added a WRT54G for wireless access" do you mean you replaced an existing router with the WRT54G or added this as an additional router?

Reply to
CWatters

I previously did not have wireless access. This is my first go-round with wireless. All seetings are the same bewteen my desktop and notebook in regards to ipconfig/all. The only difference is the ip addresses between the two. When I plugged in the notebook directly, it still wouldn't load any pages. Any ideas?

Reply to
ripdoozer

On 12 Jul 2006 10:11:30 -0700, snipped-for-privacy@yahoo.com wrote in :

From the laptop (notebook), Run the following: %COMSPEC% /K TRACERT 64.233.167.99 Copy the result window to the clipboard, and paste it into a post here.

Reply to
John Navas

Update FYI.

I discovered the problem. My laptop had a policy in plce that told it to look to a DNS server that was specific to my school network. I went into the registry and deleted that DNS address and voila! up and running thatnk to all who attemped to help me out.

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ripdoozer

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