[Hidden-tech] Wireless connection problems

G. Christopher Blauvelt Chris at innovara.com
Tue Feb 21 12:46:21 EST 2006


Claudia:

I have had this problem as well.

Go to your wireless icon and double click it and make certain you have the
correct wireless connection selected. With wireless, your laptop may pick up
your neighbors rather than your linsky in which case you have a connection
but it won't work.

Another thing I did to solve it is to check weather your wireless connection
is secure or not. 

If it is not secure, you may need to check a box that says "allow me to
connect to the selected wireless connection even though it is not secure"
and hit "apply" and then it would work. You may have to reboot.

Hope this helps,

Chris

G. Christopher Blauvelt
Chief Operating Officer
Innovara, Inc.
21 Pray Street
Amherst, MA. 01002
Tel: 413-549-5888
Fax: 413-549-0666
E-mail: Chris at innovara.com
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Claudia,

When the OS says that it's "connected" to the Wireless network, that just
means that it has established a basic radio connection with the wifi
network. Think of it as the same sort of "connection" that would be made via
a piece of patch cable. A physical interlink that doesn't really concern
itself with the various logical layers of whats going on with the network
data transmission

(Okay, that's a rather hamfisted analogy...)

If you haven't set up any sort of security with your wireless system, right
off the top of my head, it sounds like you might be having some sort of IP
address issue. Usually, this address should either be coded directly into
your network settings, or your computer should be receiving it from a DHCP
server on the network somewhere. (Most routers these days come with a DHCP
chip.)

I HAVE heard that sometimes DHCP stuff doesn't work so well over wireless,
and certainly, I've seen situations a network couldn't get a dynamic address
over the link, but if I put a static IP address into the computer, it was
able to communicate just fine over the wireless link.

One thing you could try right away is doing a power cycle on your wireless
access point and/or router (often, the wireless access point and the router
are the same piece of equipment.) Then try rebooting your PC, and seeing if
that resolves the issue. That, or try putting in a static address as an
alternate configuration on your TCPIP settings for the wifi card. (You don't
want to do it to the primary configuration, because that will make traveling
with the laptop from network to network harder.)

Again, this is all assuming that you don't have any sort of security
settings on your network, or that you might have picked up from another
network. That is a whole other kettle of fish.

My company troubleshoots these sorts of things, and we make housecalls. If
you are interested, please drop me an email. Regardless, I hope at least
some of my letter is of use to you.

-J

Josh Mintzer, MCSA
Arete Computer Consulting, Inc
Quality. Excellence. Virtue
B: 413-584-8543
C: 413-218-7869

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I am having a problem connecting to a wireless network connection. I am 
operating a Windows XP laptop that uses a Dell Wireless WLAN 1450 Dual Ban 
WLAN Mini-PCI card. When I click on the Wireless Network Connection icon  in

the task bar, my system says and shows that I am connected, but when I try 
to connect to Internet Explorer I don't get connected and MS Office Outlook 
says it can't find the server. So even though it says I'm connected, I can't

do anything. The Wireless Network says it is configured for open access and 
is set up in my system to connect automatically.

I connected wirelessly just yesterday to another system just by clicking 
connect and I ran diagnostics on the PCI card so I don't think it's a 
hardware or driver problem. Does anyone know if I need to change any 
settings or anything else I can try?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Cheers, Claudia
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