*Vanity* Any Freeper help with Wireless Networks? *Vanity*

me | 2/13/05 | Me

[birbear]

I'm sorry to distrub your bandwidth, but I'm looking for a helpful Freeper.

This weekend I tried to install a wireless network at my parents house. I purchased a Linksys wireless router, and a Linksys PCI Wireless Network card.

Setting up the wireless router on my parent's PC was a breeze... I followed the step by step directions and it went on like a champ.

The PCI card also wasn't much trouble. I found a slot in my Dell, and it configured itself.

(Oh, both systems are running XP Home.)

Okay so the PCI card found the router, and it connected, but I wasn't able to hook to the internet. (My parents have a cable modem via Comcast High Speed Internet). I found something that said, "repair connection" I clicked on that, and I had internet access -- for a little while.

After about three hours, I went back to my PC, and discovered that although the router and the PCI card seemed to be talking to each other, I had no access to the internet.

I tried everything I could think of, rebooting, reinstalling the card, etc... and still no access to the internet.

My dad, today... tried reinstalling the router...went through the step by step guide... got it all up and humming... and voila, my PC was accessing the internet again... for a little while. But after a short time, we lost it again. We tried rebooting both systems, tried reinstalling everything again... and this time no luck at all...although the PCI card is still finding the router.

We've tried changing channels, chaning settings, changing everything we can find, all to no avail.

Can anybody give me an idea of what to look for? What I need to do to keep the internet up and humming on my PC? And what to click on when it does go down?

Thank you

[birbear]

Help!

[kAcknor]

Does Comcast require a login name and password? If they do, you will have to put that into the router because the router is now logging in to the network and not your computer.

If Comcast is a DSL connection then set the router to PPPoE and use their normal PW & name.

[myself6]

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[MEG33]

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[laeva65]

You need WIN XP PRO. The home edition seems to want to cut out all the time and you have to reestablish a connection. Thanks, Billiondollar Bill!!

There MAY be a workaround, but this is what I tell people who have that problem. Sorry

[Cornpone]

This probably won't help but I had a real problem the other night that was similar. I have been on a wireless network for about 6 months now and everyone one in a while my wireless device's network setting would get totally hosed. Last night my two wireless computers couldn't keep a connection for over 30 seconds. I have linksys too. Anyway, someone had named their network the same as mine. I can only assume their's was a linsys network also so every time they set their's it reset mine and every time I reset mine it reset theirs. After I renamed my network the problem went away. But there was still a network out there using my old network name. Maybe a coincidence...maybe spoofing.

[rpierce]

Maybe the Cable provider's system is rejecting the MAC address of the wireless router upon its next polling (that might explain the drop after a certain period of time). I think the linksys has a MAC address clone feature that will mimic the MAC address of the cable modem. Hope that helps.

[Drango]

http://www.dslreports.com/

[Oschisms]

I had the same problem a while back-

Punch 192.168.1.1 into the address bar of your browser.
Enter the username and password.
On the "Setup" tab, make sure the field "Configuration type" is consistent to the type of connection you have. Probably DHCP.

[OJDIDIT2]

Try release and renew of you IP address. open a DOS promt window, type ipconfig /?. This will give you the syntax to release and renew

[Safrguns]

First off, I would suggest that you run ethernet cables directly from the computers to the router. The cable modem should be connected directly to the router as well. Going wireless chokes your bandwidth from a speedy 100mbs down to around 5 mbs. Use your wireless connections for things like printers or other peripherals.

second, you need to go through the network setup wizard on both/each computer, and specify that each computer connects to the internet via a common gateway... NOT through another computer.

Hope this helps.

[Lead Moderator]

Philosophy?

[Richard Kimball]

Try simple stuff first. Check to see if you're getting consistent access from your ISP by hooking a system directly to the cable modem. If the direct hoopup is out, it's your ISP. If the direct system works, and the wireless systems don't, it's the wireless system. I'm using a Mac Airport Extreme system, but if something comes up and the system drops out, it's usually because the broadband provider has slowed down for some reason. On occasion, after power outages, I've had to reset the cable modem, but that's about it.

FWIW, when I used Windows ME, I had a terrible time with it losing the USB ports. The loss is similar to what you're experiencing. I know this probably wasn't any help, but consider it a BTTT, anyway.

[Bob Eimiller]

I have a Linksys wireless router... My laptop is internally wireless capable. Whenever I had difficulty I called the Linksis 800 support number and they directed me very well. They should be able to work you through your problem... They did for me.

[cripplecreek]

I had the same problem at random times for over a year. Finally I ended up without any connection at all and called comcast. It turned out there was a problem with the cable up on the utility pole. It wasn't enough to affect my TV but it was enough to disturm the internet access. Since it was fixed I haven't had a problem and I got nearly two months taken off my bill.

[marajade]

What are your network settings?

[Richard Kimball]

Yeah, that was my experience with Windows ME. It lost printers, ports and connections all the time. ME was what drove me away from Windows. From what I understand, XP Home is ME with a new coat of paint, which is 98 with a new coat of paint, which is 95 with a new coat of paint.

[NCjim]

Hi. Here are some things to check out:

1. Open a command prompt, type ipconfig /all

Note a few things:

Your IP address

Your default gateway

The address(es) of your name server(s) (DNS servers)

2. From the command prompt, type ping address
where address is the address of your gateway.
You should get a response like

Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=150

3. From the command prompt, ping your name server

If you cannot ping any of your name servers, you
may be able access the internet by address, just not
by name because you can't resolve a name to an address.

Since you are running Windows XP, make sure you have
not enabled the firewall that is built into the system.

Finally, on my LinkSys wireless router, it sometimes wants
to assign an address of 192.168.1.65, even though by default
the router is configured to assign dynamic IP addresses
beginning at 192.168.1.100. This microcode defect causes
an IP address to be assigned that is blocked by the router.
You can circumvent this problem by opening a web browser
to configure the router at 192.168.1.1 as described in the
user's guide. Set the lower bound of the dynamic address
pool to 192.168.1.65 (or whatever address is shown on the
ipconfig /all command) if the last number in the address
is less than 100. Then release and renew your IP address
lease with the following commands:

ipconfig /release
ipconfig /renew

Good luck!

[Snapple]

Try this.

Turn off all the computers in the house. Wait a minute.

Unplug both the cords into the two boxes. Wait a minute and then plug the two wires in again.

Turn on the computer and see if it works.

We often have to unplug the two wires and plug them in again.

Occassionally, you have to turn off the computers first--all of them in your house.

Don't ask me why this works.