Wireless, Limited Connectivity Problems

[jspeicher]

solved.

 

[nweaver]

search the forums for basic wireless troubleshooting

1. Move closer to the AP
2. Turn off all security/encryption
3. check basic TCP/IP stuff (valid IP, ping gateway, ping something beyond gateway by IP, ping somthing by name, etc)

 

[JackMDS]

Try to connect to the Wireless Router's menus. If you can connect to the menus, it means that the local Wireless connection is working.

If it does Not log to the Router's Mneus, you do not have a valid Wireless connection and you need to reconfigure the Wireless.

Link to: Wireless - Basic Configuration.

Link to: Wireless Security for the Home User.">http://www.ezlan.net/Wireless_Security.html</a>

If the reconfiguration does not help, you have to go over the General Network Settings.

You can debug the Network Setting of the computer following these steps.

Step One. Check the Network parameters in the Computer?s Device Manager. Make sure that the drivers are installed correctly; there is No IRQ conflict, and No Ghost installation. http://www.ezlan.net/faq#ghost

Step Two. Verify Basic network setting in the OS: http://www.ezlan.net/Installing#verify
If the above two Steps indicates that every thing looks good but functionally it does not work.

Step Three. Check (and repair if necessary) the Socket Layers, Winsock, and or refresh the TCP/IP Stack. http://www.ezlan.net/clean#refreshnet
If need to Reinstall; Log to this page it have a lot of links to instructions to Windows Network Settings, and Sharing: http://www.ezlan.net/Installing.html] Windows Network - Installing & Sharing.[/URL]

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P.S. Brand name Laptops come with a lot of preinstalled ?Junk? that might jeopardize the Network and Internet connection. Some time it is necessarily to study what is loaded at Startup and clean the system to load only what it is needed for proper functioning.