Wireless network problem

[Trogdor91]

Me and a buddy just moved and comcast cant install out cable for a few days so my neighbor is letting us use his via wireless. It is an unsecured network and I can connect to it, and so can my friend, but we cant actually do anything, no internet, no aim, etc. I tried checking the DNS addresses, thats not the problem. Signal strength is excellent. Any ideas?

 

[ktwebb]

Associating to an AP doesn't mean your actually on his network. run ipconfig /all from a command prompt. I'd guess your not getting an IP. He'd need to be have DHCP on of course.

Sounds like it could be an encryption issue. If you bring up the details of the Wireless NIC utility and see if your sending data but not receiving it then it's probably WEP problems.

 

[Casawi]

I have the same problem actually but it seem like when I reboot it works fine and then at some point I loose the internet and I have to reboot my computer. Even tho it shows that I am connected to the router with 100% signal strength. How do actually fix these problems ?

 

[Atheus]

After you run 'ipconfig /all' like ktwebb says, and if you have an ip that isn't 169.x.x.x, try to ping the router. If that works try to ping outside.

 

[Trogdor91]

From ipconfig, i am getting a private ip 192.168.x.x. DHCP is enabled. And i cant ping the router. pinging the loopback 127.0.0.1 does work.