Windows Newsgroups: Windows Wireless Networking

Hotspot SW blocking access to competitors?

IvanK- - 8 Jul 2006 11:57 PM - 5 messages

Maybe I'm just being paranoid, but I suspect that a wireless HS I've been using lately has loaded an app. of some kind on my notebook that is interfering with access to other HS. Before I started using this HS, I had no ...

Network did not assign a network address

gryffe - 8 Jul 2006 3:06 PM - 23 messages

Hi, I am trying to coonevt to the internet on a 2nd PC using a Belkin 54g Wireless Network Adaptor. I have set up home network but the connection via the Belkin fails with "this connection has limited or no connectivity" The ...

Wireless connection drops intermittently on 4 different computers

Rocaveli - 8 Jul 2006 2:36 AM - 7 messages

Hello, I have a wireless network set up, used to have a NetGear G wireless router, and now have the new Linksys N router. I have 4 different computers, two desktops with the Microsoft USB G adaptor, one Acer with internal Centrino ...

how to turn on internal wireless card

orlando - 8 Jul 2006 1:11 AM - 4 messages

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Acquiring IP Address

Gordoni - 8 Jul 2006 12:06 AM - 2 messages

I have recently installed a MIMO router (Netgear Rangemax 240) and have several computers that connect to it wirelessly. However, I have a laptop and an Xbox that fail to connect. Both of them fail to get an IP address ...

battery stops internet

wharfrat - 7 Jul 2006 6:50 PM - 2 messages

when i use my laptop in battery mode i cant get an internet connection,its works fine when i use mains electricity to power it but not when in battery mode,anyone help a beginner out. ...

Enable security?

Nicalaine - 7 Jul 2006 2:49 PM - 4 messages

I live 10 miles from anyone else. Do I still need to enable the security on my home network? ...

Wireless Connection - mo Internet

GMT - 6 Jul 2006 6:11 PM - 2 messages

I have a wireless connection from my son's computer to our host. His is a Linksys adapter and host has DLINK Router/Cable Modem. Has been working for a year, but when I had to reload our hard drive due to disk failure, I cannot get it to ...

wireless connection is blocked or something

justjo - 6 Jul 2006 1:52 PM - 5 messages

Hi, I need help with a problem. We just installed wifi in our rv park. My laptop accesses the access point with no problem, but it won't see the repeater signal. I know the repeater is working as other ppl are connected ...

Cant Browse the Internet on Wireless Network

Amit Mahajan - 6 Jul 2006 11:30 AM - 5 messages

I've a peculiar problem. I am using Dell Latitude D600 for the last 3 years. This has Intel Pro Wireless 2100 b Wireless Network Card, which I've been using successfully for the last 3 years. I connect to my office router ...

Deploying WLAN configuration in non-domain environment

Patrick Schmid - 6 Jul 2006 7:47 AM - 2 messages

I need to deploy a particular WLAN configuration (SSID, security settings, etc) to a large number of WinXP Pro SP2 computers that are not in a domain. The users are university students who want to use the university's WLAN. Currently they get several pages of documentation ...

bogus IP address assigned to laptop

ivory_kitten - 6 Jul 2006 7:16 AM - 3 messages

i have windows xp sp2 installed on my machine, and its up-to-date with updates etc. so i use my laptop at work and at home. at work i have no dramas connecting to our wireless network using 192.168.19.1 for the DNS, at home i run on ...

automatic switching of access points

Gary Karasik - 6 Jul 2006 3:05 AM - 7 messages

Hi, A client asked me about this, and I haven't a clue, so I thought I'd query the collective knowledge of the NG: His issue is that he's got two wireless access points in his apartment, one contained in his router and one that he ...

wireless connection project

John Jay Smith - 5 Jul 2006 11:29 AM - 3 messages

(sorry for the double post, but I just discovered this newsgroup on wireless!) This is a wireless connection project I want to do between 2 houses that are of close proximity to each other. [link] ...

Computers acquire IP address from wrong WLAN.

torpesco - 5 Jul 2006 7:03 AM - 2 messages

Hi, Odd problem with a couple computers -- one laptop, one desktop, both with XP Pro sp2. Topology: PC . . . . . D-Link 524 (as access point) . . . . . Laptop +----LAN----Sonicwall (firewall/DHCP)---Internet ...

Getting Windows 2000 PC on network for file sharing

Swan - 5 Jul 2006 4:42 AM - 2 messages

Have been able to gain access to two XP PCs that are all connected wirelessly to a router that in turn is connected to cable internet. Can see the Windows 2K PC from the XP machine, but getting \\Server_name is not accessible msg. I have shared the entire c: drive ...

how to add a bluetooth device on a bluetooth laptop

fifo611 - 4 Jul 2006 7:48 PM - 3 messages

well I have a palm one (life drive) handheld, and a compaq built in laptop presario v2000, with windows xp home sp2 but there is no option for add bluetooth devices and I can't make my palm to recognize the pc, or on the ...

NAT

smh - 4 Jul 2006 1:56 PM - 2 messages

I have a usb DSL modem and I have two PC's using windows XP pro and home the scond one is Labtop using Wireless lan I'm using ICS. I need to make NAT to hide my IP so please I need help ...

where is the icon in the control panel for bluetooth?

fifo611 - 4 Jul 2006 5:01 AM - 4 messages

ok... well, I have a bluetooth laptop, with windows xp, but I can't configure my handheld with it, cuz there is no option for it... where is it... can u help? ...

OT: How to reboot remote PC via VPN/Remote Desktop?

(PeteCresswell) - 3 Jul 2006 11:06 PM - 7 messages

Anybody know how to reboot the remote PC via a Remote Desktop session that's connected via VPN? Seems like there's some keystroke combination that is the functional equivalent of Ctl+Alt+Delete... but I can't recall it. ...

DHCP Reservation function

DavidT - 3 Jul 2006 9:40 PM - 3 messages

My router a D-Link DIR-625 has a function where you can reserve a dhcp address from within the router's pool list.... my questions are Isn't this basicly the same as a static ip address as the way i understand ...

Signal Problem

saturn - 3 Jul 2006 6:35 PM - 6 messages

I have connected a wireless router to my PC in an upstairs bedroom and a usb adaptor to a pc in a downstairs dining room. Everything appears to be set up ok, but the downstairs pc isnt finding the wirless router. It did on one ...

wireless conection intermitantly keeps dropping

TAZZER007 - 3 Jul 2006 8:56 AM - 3 messages

i am running windows home edition and xp2 and my wireless server is orange was fomaly wanadoo,i start pc wait for conection and then intermitantly the conection drops and pc just starts up again,have configured my frequency settings several times but still have the problem,i have now been told it ...

HOW DO I CONFIGURE MY PC AND LAPTOP FOR PRINTER SHARING

uraniumore235 - 3 Jul 2006 3:45 AM - 2 messages

Hello all, I am wondering how do I setup my pc for printer sharing. The pc is connected to a DSL router, and the laptop connects to the DSL router through a wireless card. Currently, the pc can print to the printer, ...

How to configure Di-524 to find my "Ethernet Printer" conected directly to the Di-524?

rjm.peters - 2 Jul 2006 7:10 PM - 7 messages

How do I need to configure my Di-524 to find my "Ethernet Printer" conected directly to the Di-524 wifi router? I just can't find the printer on my network. The LEDS of the Ethernet connection on the Di-524 and the HP2100-m ...

finding unsecured connections

bri448 - 2 Jul 2006 2:07 PM - 6 messages

I am new to networking my laptop. When I go somewhere other than home with my laptop I can find signals for other wireless connections, but I am unable to connect to them. I understand that the connections are secured and they ...