Pulsar
Diamond Member
We have a soho router in a room where we teach robotics. This router is plugged into a corporate ethernet port. (Yes, we're allowed.) The router has no problem obtaining an IP address, contacting the DNS servers, etc.
4 dell desktops that we have formatted and installed windows professional XP onto, with service pack 3 and all security updates, have absolutely NO issue connecting the to the router, to the NAS storage in the room on the LAN, and easily connect out to the internet after having their proxy information set correctly.
This router also has wireless access. This is the peculiarity. Vista and 7 machines connecting wirelessly almost NEVER get internet, even with the proxy info set. Windows XP wireless machines are at about a 50% hit / miss ratio. ALL the computers connect just fine to the router itself, and can once again see the NAS storage on the local lan. They can ping the router, etc. Manually assigning the DNS servers in those wireless machines does not seem to help, either.
We are at our wit's end here. Even manually setting up the laptops with static IP's makes no difference.
Ideas?
4 dell desktops that we have formatted and installed windows professional XP onto, with service pack 3 and all security updates, have absolutely NO issue connecting the to the router, to the NAS storage in the room on the LAN, and easily connect out to the internet after having their proxy information set correctly.
This router also has wireless access. This is the peculiarity. Vista and 7 machines connecting wirelessly almost NEVER get internet, even with the proxy info set. Windows XP wireless machines are at about a 50% hit / miss ratio. ALL the computers connect just fine to the router itself, and can once again see the NAS storage on the local lan. They can ping the router, etc. Manually assigning the DNS servers in those wireless machines does not seem to help, either.
We are at our wit's end here. Even manually setting up the laptops with static IP's makes no difference.
Ideas?
