Weird Wi-fi problem

[TheBiggmann]

For some reason yesterday, I stopped being able to get on the internet through the wireless connection I have set up in my dorm through the university ResNet. It's worked fine all year, it says I'm connected, yet when I try and acess a page it doesn't work. I'm on a Mac and have tried deleting my Airport connection and recreating it because that has worked with University provided wireless in the past, but that didn't do anything. I've restarted the router, hit the reset switch, checked everything in the firmware that I understood, everything looks fine. I can even send documents to my wireless printer, which is leading me to believe it's not something with the router itself but with some setting within my computer that inadvertently got changed. Please help, it's really annoying being on the university wireless... So slow!

PS I'm posting this in the Apple forum too, just in case.

 

[tonyyy]

static IP address?

Check your DNS servers?

Can you ping DNS servers?

 

[NesuD]

First you need to determine is the problem with you or is it upstream. The fact that you can send print jobs to your wireless printer makes me think your mac is fine. Not sure how you ping with a mac but you should try to ping a website like ping www.anandtech.com for example. If that doesn't work ping one of the root servers for example ping 4.2.2.1 if that works then the problem is likely a dns issue. If DNS is failing then you won't reach any site using it's domain name but if it is just dns you will still be able to reach IP addresses directly. If you have no luck either way then either your router isn't obtaining network settings from the upstream dhcp server or there is a network failure upstream that is preventing you from getting out. The fact that you can print to your wireless printer makes m doubt there is an issue with your wireless network.

 

[spidey07]

Sounds like they shut you down. Check to see if you're allowed to use such a device on their network.