Re: No connection to internet on wireless
- From: "Patrick Keenan" <test@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 22:46:41 -0500
"Tmac" <Tmac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Once I connect to the router through a wired connection, how do I log into
the Router?
Depends on the specific router, and this is the first thing covered in the
router's setup instructions.
On many, it's as simple as going to a command prompt, typing "ipconfig" and
pressing Enter, taking the Gateway address, which might be 192.168.0.1 and
entering that number in a browser's address bar. . You'll get the router's
login page.
And then do I just turn encryption on and give is a password?
Often the password will be generated for you. You can also in some schemes
provide your own key. This is often not a good idea, as you will tend to
create insecure keys.
Then where do I go to type in the password on the other wireless laptops?
Depends on the wireless card drivers. When the network is detected, you'll
be asked for the password.
Once you have the hardware in place, you will find it plain.
The one catch is that you have to use an encryption scheme that all of your
wireless laptops can use. For example, my old Thinkpad can only use WEP,
not the more secure newer (and faster) protocols, so if I want to use it, I
have to use WEP.
You'll know if this is a problem when you go through the wireless card
drivers and find the encryption type drop-downs and don't see the scheme
you've chosen. You will have to choose the common denominator, the one
that all the wireless cards support.
This is really worth doing, and when you have the gear set up and have read
the directions, you should not have difficulties.
HTH
-pk
Thanks.
"Patrick Keenan" wrote:
"Tmac" <Tmac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hey thanks for the reply. I have tried unplugging the router and modem.
I
disconnected the internet from the laptop the did not get internet
before,
and then when I did that the other one here worked for a few minutes.
Then
it
went back to no internet. It says that my "card has been disabled".
That means that the card has been set to disabled. Turn it back on.
It can mean that there are hardware problems. Try wired connections.
DO
those work?
So im
back to where I was now. I do not have a secured network. Could you
tell
me
how I can do that...like put a password on it.
This is done on the router. Log into the router, to the wireless tab,
turn
encryption on, give it a key, save the settings. Do this from a wired
connection, because as soon as the settings are saved, all the wireless
clients will lose connections till you give them the keys.
You'll need to give *some* clues as to what this is to get less generic
information.
HTH
-pk
Also do you know any commands
for repairing or refreshing the network... I read here somewhere what
they
were but forgot them. It was like Winreset or something and you type it
into
the "Run" in Start menu.
"Terry R." wrote:
The date and time was Thursday, March 05, 2009 2:54:09 PM, and on a
whim, Tmac pounded out on the keyboard:
I have been having a problem here for a while. I have 4 computers in
my
house, 1 desktop and 3 laptops. We have a wireless router. For about
6
months
now I cannot get internet on one of the laptops. Then we got rid of
the
desktop cause it was real old and then I tried to get the internet
working on
the laptop that hasn't worked for 6 months. I looked around for help
here and
I tried uninstalling SP3 because someone had problems with that. So
I
got
that internet working after uninstalling SP3. Now I go to one of the
other
laptops and it has no internet connection. It had worked 1 hour
earlier
because I used it to look up answers to fix the first one. So I have
3
laptops and one is not getting internet after having fixed the other
one. My
newest laptop has no problems yet.
If you could please help me here, I have no idea what to do. Thanks!
Hi Tmac,
There were issues reported with SP3 and (I believe) Netgear. Since
you
didn't state what hardware you were using, we're unable to go any
further.
Did you unplug the router and then plug it back in? I know many
clients
and friends that have to do this from time to time, as well as the two
Linksys/Cisco units we have here.
Hopefully you have secured your wireless network using WPA or better.
If not, you could be getting taken advantage of.
Terry R.
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