[allis0nfaith]

i bought a new laptop when i went away to college in august, and before i moved i used my dad's wireless network to access the internet while i was at home. when i moved to school, i got a free high speed connection in my dorm room. however, since i plugged in to my school's network, i cant seem to get a wireless connection anywhere. when i try to connect, my computer tells me im connected and my signal strength is excellent, but when i try to view any website, it says page cannot be displayed. ive tried connecting through the windows software, and after getting no results with that, i tried my intel wireless software, but still got nothing. ive tried changing all of my firewall settings but nothing seems to work. help!

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Your dorm room connection probably isn't wireless and is instead probably wired through the network port. Plug that in instead.

[Neil Jones]

Your dorm room connection probably isn't wireless and is instead probably wired through the network port. Plug that in instead.

[allis0nfaith]

my computer works great when plugged in at school- that connection is not wireless. but its winter break and im home now. at home our only internet connection is wireless, but since i used the school's connection, i cant seem to connect to any wireless network.

[coachwife6]

You probably tried these, but did you try to disconnect from the wireless set up at home and hit repair.

Then, click refresh wireless network list?

[allis0nfaith]

yes, it says it's repaired but it still doesnt work

[coachwife6]

Did you hit repair and let it go through the process? Does it recognize your parent's wireless account when you hit refresh network list?

[elite_destiny]

not to but in. But when i was a freshman i had this exact problem. School's usually give a static ip for all students. If they did then you need to go in and set back to auto. Just an idea. SOrry for intruding.

[coachwife6]

You're not butting in. When I went to college, we had electric typewriters, so this is news to me. Any help you can give - great.

[allis0nfaith]

i think that the IP address WAS the problem, because today i was on the phone with a dell rep, and he said that my IP address wasnt right for the router i was using. he told me to reset the router. it reset, but now it says that we need a password to log on. the problem is that it never gave us a chance to set up the network, so nobody knows it. now this is the only computer with internet access in our house!

[elite_destiny]

a few ways to find out the default password. First what is the name of the router ( NEtgear, linksys, etc). Check out the web. Most routers defaut password is well "password". Sometimes it even says on bottom of router like my netgear does.

[allis0nfaith]

thank you! i tried both of those but they didnt work, so i just pushed the reset button on the front (the one that messed it up in the first place) and it reset itself without a password. now our network is up but my computer still wont connect. i still think it's the IP address. anyone know how to reset it?

[relmore]

go to start on your taskbar>select run. type "cmd" and press enter. a window will pop up. In the window, type "ipconfig/release" and press enter
next type in "ipconfig/renew" press enter. that should reset your ip address.

something to note:
I could not connect to my residential wireless network although it was showing itself on the list of "wireless networks available". All I did was unplug the power cord from the linksys router for about 10 seconds and turn it back on. everything has worked fine since.

Edited by relmore, 01 January 2006 - 05:07 AM.

[coachwife6]

unplug the power cord from the linksys router for about 10 seconds and turn it back on. everything has worked fine since.

When I trouble shoot with my ISP on the phone, they tell me to turn it off for 10 minutes and try again. May be a different problem we are solving, but thought I would throw it out there.

[Elli]

i had a similar problem, my wireless thing says its "connected" and the connection says "excellent"
but it wont let me access the internet
so i tried your advice with the "start" menu and "run"
and then u type in "ipconfig/release" and then "ipconfig/renew"
it worked fine until that.
Then this came up:
"the operation failed as no adapter is in the state permissible for this operation"
all this computer stuff is confusing
please help!!