Trouble connecting to network at apartment complex

[WiKiD]

I move into my new apartment last week to find out my network access in my room is not working. For now i am on my room mate's wireless. I sent in a request and the tech that came to fix it just elft a note telling me to run ipconfig. The only problem i see from this is that my LAN connection does not have a default gateway. I can release the IP but when i try to renew i run into problems. Anyone have some possible solutions?

 

[Fardringle]

What IP address do you get when you are connected to the apartment's network?
What problems are you having when you use IPCONFIG /RENEW?

 

[amdskip]

Did you have to register your mac address with them first?

 

[casper114]

Originally posted by: amdskip
Did you have to register your mac address with them first?

On the same token do they have encryption that needs to be put into your settings?

 

[WiKiD]

We werent given any instructions to connect. My room mats plugged their computers in and they worked fine. Of course, they have been living in the dorms for a year so there may be some setting that i am missing. The ip address i get goes as follows:

Autoconfiguration IP Address...: 169.254.215.186
Subnet Mask..........................: 255.255.0.0
Default Gateway is blank.

 

[nweaver]

you are getting the "Default Address" from windows, meaning you did not get a DHCP address.

running ipconfig /renew will cause your adapter to start the dhcpdiscover process and (hopefully) get an IP address.

Not sure, but what COULD have happened: Some switches (cisco's do this) will put a port in a blocking state for a few seconds while they listen to the traffic to make sure that there will not be a loop in the network (this is all spanning tree stuff). If it's blocking traffic and doesn't unblock before windows gives up, then you get your 169 address from windows.

I have problems with portfast and PXE, but I haven't with windows. I would just try the ipconfig /renew and see if it works.

 

[WiKiD]

They came back in fixed it. It turns out that each unit is on a shared cable modem connection. He just reset the switch and modem and it worked.