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Is it the wireless router or the wireless card in her laptop?

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Felecha

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The basics:
* cable modem
* LinkSys BEFSR41
* one cable goes to her office at home, where my wife used to just plug into her laptop, now that cable goes into a NetGear WGT624 so she can work anywhere in the house
* Dell Inspiron 5100 / TrueMobile 1300 WLAN MiniPCI Card
* Win XP Home

Yesterday she told me - can't connect to the internet. Been there more than once over the last 2 years.

So I did the basic - rebooting the NetGear almost always fixes things, or calling for Repair from the Windows Networking thing.

It's odd - it says Connected and Excellent Signal Strength, but can't connect to the internet.

I can pull the cable from the NetGear and run it straight to the port on her lappie and it's fine.

ifpconfig tells me her laptop is 192.168.1.11, which is odd. I seem to recall that hers has generally been like 101 or 100, I dont remember ever seeing an 11.

So it sounds like either the NetGear or the wireless card. I dont want to buy one of each to try.

The NetGear has its own IP 192.168.0.1. It's interesting that I try that and get Error: could not connect to remote server. Currently unavailable

It makes me wonder if the NetGear has lost track of its own IP, and that's the missing piece here.

But then how could the connection object in Windows in her laptop say it is Connected to the NetGear and excellent strength?

No problems with my own desktop here, straight cable connection from the LinkSys
 
it seems like you have a little bit of redundancy. You can get rid of the LinkSys BEFSR41 and use just the NetGear WGT624. Both of them are routers, but the NetGear has wireless function built-in. This make configuration a lot easier.
 
Thanks, I thought of that long ago, but the router is in the cellar by the modem, and the wireless is upstairs in her office, and already the signal strength is at the lower edge way out at the farthest reaches of the house. If I put the wireless right at the modem my daughters would lose signal in their rooms.

And the fun part - it came back to life. I have NO idea why, but it's working again. I dont know what was wrong and I dont know what happened to set it right,

Damn!

🙂

 
The netgear has DHCP turned off right? SO it's just acting as an AP...

Not sure what would have caused a good connection but no internet but then it'd work via the cable. Could have just been a fluke I guess.

Hope it doesn't happen again.
 
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