Wi Fi set up?????

[Northern Star]

Any experts on this ???

We been trying to get the lap top set up for wireless use but have hit a problem......

got the router and the wi fi card all connected and the software installed........the laptop is showing as connected via wireless but the internet will not come on arghhhhh

i then lost internet connection on my pc and it keeps going down

anybody any idea at all where we are goin wrong or whats happening

Thanking u in advance

 

[Phil]

Hi!.

Does your Wi-fi setup have a built in firewall?, you may need to configure some additional settings.

Have you upgraded to XP Service Pack 2?. Just wondered if your system was blocking net access via the firewall. Click Start > Control Panel > if it's SP2 you will have a 'security center' icon.

Are you able to send/receive e-mail?...

Phil

 

[Northern Star]

Hi Phil hun!! hope u well babes....!

Dunno bout the firewall thing......we using 'buffalo air station and wireless adapter... spi firewall

dont think im running on xp2 either hun...

i can email as usual from my pc hun....if that what you meant

 

[Phil]

Full o cold at the moment, but other than that, I'm fine.

U ok?...

Can't say I've heard of buffalo, but if you can e-mail from your PC (with wireless setup) then its a net problem and not a connection problem. That's what I was getting at. Sorry for any confusion caused.

I'll see what I can figure out for ya...

Phil

 

[RetroAndy]

Hi debs i have done a bit of this too hun.

I did dannys wireless network at his mums house but if i am honest i fluked it lol.

I have done it at work since and it took me ages but i managed to get it working.

I aint too sure wat ya problem is but if ya dont get it sorted i will ring ya and talk ya through a few things.

One thing thats come to mind, Does it actually say conected or does it say a wireless connection is available.

If its the later you need to force the connection by rightclicking on the little computer icon in ya task bar and selecting the connection and clicking the box that says connect to an unsecure network.

The principle of wireless is that you should really secure your connection cause in some circumstances peeps near you wireless connection could be able to sahre your internet bandwith like shooms is now doing with that cafe underneath him lol.

Hope i didnt lose ya but sometimes its easoer to explain in person.

Let me know how ya get on chick,

Andy

 

[Northern Star]

Thanks guys..........Phil not sure what you mean when you say can i mail from my pc with wireless set up.......my pc is never not connected to the modem only the laptop is going to wireless???? oh god im real confused now lol

Andy the icon is showing connected in the bottom right of the screen so it seems like the wireless is signalling but we cant the web to work....its like its not connecting to my band width

Arghhhhhhhh i really wanted to get htis working so i can take the lppy to the shop booo hissss :$

Much appreciated though for any help

 

[RetroAndy]

It could be a few things hun.

One of which could be the internet settings on the laptop. It needs to have the ip address of the router which should be connected to the internet.

It could be that although you have a connection your laptop is not looking for the right ip address for the gateway to the net.

Its quite hard to explain really and i could be well of the mark.

Andy

 

[Northern Star]

Morning babe!!!

Yeh we had to put in manually the ip address and a few other details too!!

Its doin my head in.....summat bad cus we cant think what it may be..........did everything by the book and still nothing.....its gonna be some minute detail thats staring us right int he face no doubt but cant see the wood for the trees type thing lol!! :embarress:

 

[Phil]

Sorry!, didn't realise that you were setting up wireless on an additional machine. Probably was right at the start of the thread... (phil reads full message.....)

Sorry to add to the confusion!.

Thanks guys..........Phil not sure what you mean when you say can i mail from my pc with wireless set up.......my pc is never not connected to the modem only the laptop is going to wireless???? oh god im real confused now lol

 

[RetroAndy]

Any luck with it debs

Andy

 

[Northern Star]

Any luck with it debs

Andy

Morning babes..

No luck whatso ever...think i have wasted my money cus cant get it to work at all...and its well baffling as too why.....everything seems to be set up and connected from the icons on the bottom right hand side but alas no internet

 

[RetroAndy]

Morning babes..

No luck whatso ever...think i have wasted my money cus cant get it to work at all...and its well baffling as too why.....everything seems to be set up and connected from the icons on the bottom right hand side but alas no internet

Pm the deets on your equipment and i will see wat i can find out. Failing that that offere of ringing ya one night and talking ya through it still stands.

Also are you on xp. Cause i have remote admin now so i could log on to your pc from my pc and check ya settings etc

Andy

 

[blue jammer]

Shouldn't be too hard to fathom out, set up a few of them at work when we tested them out.

With having a router, I'm assuming you've got all the right gubbins filled in (on all connected PC's)

Router uses local IP addresses such as

192.168.8.1 (Router's IP)

Example for a 2 pc setup

PC 192.168.8.19
Laptop 192.168.8.20

The way I have mine is (not wireless btw!);

IP pool from 192.168.8.17 to 192.168.8.24

So you can plug in a PC and use an IP in that range.

Unless you're using DHCP where it automatically gets an IP ?

 

[Northern Star]

Scot much appreciated for that info babe will give it another go in a bit..........if not .........Andy will defo ring ya bubs and see if you can talk us through it.....!!!!!

Big thank you to you all for your time and advice

 

[Northern Star]

Right we got a little further.....we can now use the laptop wireless but the static pc wont connect to the web

 

[RetroAndy]

Right we got a little further.....we can now use the laptop wireless but the static pc wont connect to the web

Sorry not been in touch hun, been busy over the weekend.

So let me get this right, your lap top now connects via wireless to the net but the pc wont

Have you changed your gateway on the pc ??

Andy

 

[Northern Star]

Sorry not been in touch hun, been busy over the weekend.

So let me get this right, your lap top now connects via wireless to the net but the pc wont

Have you changed your gateway on the pc ??

Andy

its ok Andy hun...hope youre well and dandy this jolly fine morning bubs

Errrm i dunno hun......how do i do that :$