Re: No connection to internet on wireless

The date and time was Thursday, March 05, 2009 4:11:27 PM, and on a whim, jinxy pounded out on the keyboard:

On Mar 5, 6:31 pm, Tmac <T...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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". 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. 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.
--
Anti-spam measures are included in my email address.
Delete NOSPAM from the email address after clicking Reply.- Hide quoted text -
- Show quoted text -

depending on the router you own, simply unpluging and replugging in
may not be enough. on most routers there is a reset button. hold the
reset button in for about 15 secs. while the router is still powered
up this will reset the router to default settings.next unplug the
router from the ac power and the modem. the router should not be
reconnected until prompted by the set-up disk.reconnect your modem via
ethernet cable to one pc. now using your router set-up software
reconfigure your router and apply your security settings, wpa or
better. once the router is configured simply connect each pc by
applying wpa password.hope this helps.
-J

For most people with configured routers, telling them to use the reset button is NOT good advice. Those people don't have any idea how to reconfigure it and if encryption had been set, it's now gone, and they wouldn't even realize it.

For lost connections, most of the time powering it down and back up is sufficient. It's not good assistance to tell someone who's never configured a router to "reset" it.


Terry R.
--
Anti-spam measures are included in my email address.
Delete NOSPAM from the email address after clicking Reply.
.