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My laptop on my wireless network can't recieve packets, it only sends them

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kylester5

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I have it all configured with my network with my network's SSID, and Password and such, and it connects, but I can't connect to the internet and it seems to only be sending packets without receiving any. Which makes little sense because I have another computer on my network that works perfectly fine as far as internet and networking use goes. I have WEP encrytion(which I know sucks, but my wireless adapter doesn't support anything other than it). If I need to provide more information, just tell me what you guys need to know in order to help me with this. Thanks a lot.
 
What firewall are you using?
What router are you using?
Static or Dynamic?

Also check out this website for troubleshooting:
http://ezlan.net/

The networking forum is one of those forums where people actually sleep at night 😉. So you may or may not get a response tonight but look over that webpage in the meantime
 
are you getting a valid IP from DHCP?

I'm guessing no, and guessing that you fat fingered the wep key (happens all the time). The packet thing, with no valid IP is a classic mistyped wep symptom
 
Is your wireless adapter actually getting a valid IP address from the router? If so, can you PING the router's IP address?

Most of the time when I see wireless connections sending out a few packets but not receiving anything at all, it is because the adapter is not actually communicating with the router - usually because it did not authenticate properly due to an incorrect WEP/WPA key or blocked MAC address.

Another possibility is that your wireless router is set to only give out a few IP addresses (or just one) and there aren't any more available in the DHCP pool.

Edit: nweaver beat me to it. 🙂
 
Originally posted by: nweaver
are you getting a valid IP from DHCP?

I'm guessing no, and guessing that you fat fingered the wep key (happens all the time). The packet thing, with no valid IP is a classic mistyped wep symptom
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