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Help! I need home network advice
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| pmoisse |
Help!
I need to fix my home network.
I have a normal modem, with a Linksys wireless G router plugged into it. My /f's computer finds the internets just fine (both plugged into the router and wireless), my work laptop does the same, but my new laptop (with Vista as the o/s while the others are running XP) does not. After fighting with it for an hour, I gave up and just unpacked my work lappie which found the router and internets on the first try, without complaining (on wireless no less).
My new laptop used to work with the router when plugged in, but not wireless. Now it doesn't do either. The bitch is that I can see the damn router as both a wired and wireless unit but I cannot see beyond it into the wonderful world of internets.
By the process of elimination, I'm guessing that it's a setting within the new laptop running Vista but I know all about this stuff.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks! |
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| Capitalizt |
Install XP.
or if you insist on vista, visit the manufacturer's website, find the exact model number, and redownload the network-related drivers. Updating drivers and rebooting works 99% of the time for problems like this. |
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| pmoisse |
^ I'm waiting for my Windows 7 upgrade to be available.
And I don't have an XP install disk either, nor the confidence to play around with it :( |
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| Capitalizt |
The Windows 7 release candidate is fully functional through June 2010.. Why not just burn a copy from a torrent and use it in the meantime? I'm pretty sure it is completely legal to use the RC version.
I'm using it now and frakking love it. When I installed a new printer last week, it didn't even ask for the installation CD. As soon as it was plugged it into the USB port, a message popped up saying "new device detected - searching for drivers - driver found - installing printer driver - your printer is ready to use"
..all within 10 seconds.
Win 7 is Pure pwn. |
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| pmoisse |
Thanks, I'll check it out and see if I can get 7 somehow before I get my official copy. I'm just not good with this and I don't want to mess things up any more than they may be.
With cars, I've never had this issue because I can see the working bits. With computers, I cannot see the working bits to understand the sequences and orders of operation, and therefore my troubleshooting abilities are minimal at best |
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| pmoisse |
This is really strange. The network utilities tell me I'm connected to the LAN and I can see the network and router name but I can't access it. When I run the Dell wireless WLAN utility diagnostics, it fails the gateway IP ping.
Is this a setting on the laptop that I can change? Tell it to try a different gateway to leave the router?
I tried running the router setup disc in the vista machine and it couldn't find the router even though the network from the control panel shows it. |
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| Capitalizt |
You might want to try this.. Open control panel, and under your network connections menu, right click your network and choose "repair" to see if it can repair the connection.
]After that, unplug both the router AND cable modem for 10 seconds, plug them back in and reboot your PC.
If this doesn't work and you have already reinstalled the network drivers as I mentioned earlier, it is likely a hardware problem with the laptop itself.. |
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| pmoisse |
I tried resetting the router and no luck.
I just tried running the setup disc for the router from my work laptop (which connects to the wireless just fine), and the application utility said it couldn't find the router.
If it can't find the router, how can I use it to access the internet?
I can't even hit it on it's IP address.
It's like it's locked and hidden, but still operational. |
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| pmoisse |
SUCCESS!!!!
you and your extra , VISTA.
I turned off the TCIP V6, Link Layer Topology mapper & responder, and reset the IP and DNS to automatic.
This ended up working.
I just started turning off one thing at a time to make it match my work laptop running XP.
The crazy thing is that it worked just fine from the time I picked it up at my Mom's house in Waterloo, friend's place in Toronto,g/f's parents place outside of Ottawa. I guess there's some conflict in the way my network is set up that was arguing with these other settings within Vista. |
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| pkcRAISTLIN |
| quote: | Originally posted by Capitalizt
You might want to try this.. Open control panel, and under your network connections menu, right click your network and choose "repair" to see if it can repair the connection. |
this almost never works ;) |
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| DaRoZa |
| if the ip wasnt set to auto, that would have ed you equally if you were using xp :P |
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