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Wireless Router + Laptop = Problem
Raggaholic
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Ok, I'm having trouble connecting to my home network with my laptop. As of, say last week, everything was fine. I wiped the hard drive and reinstalled Windows (wanted to get all of the factory stuff off the comp, as well as get rid of the 10GB restore partition). Now, I can't seem to connect wirelessly to my home network.
1) I have a Linksys wireless router
2) I have changed some settings over the past week for emule, but just port forwarding and firewall.
3) Router has DHCP enabled
3) My wireless NIC seems to be working fine via the control panel
4) When I check my laptop IP address, its not a 192.168.X.X address like everything else on the network
5) Can log on to other wireless routers just fine and use the internet
6) I can "connect" to my router, but can't access any of the other computers or printer on the network
7) All of the computers are part of the same network.
Can anyone think of what the problem is here?
1) I have a Linksys wireless router
2) I have changed some settings over the past week for emule, but just port forwarding and firewall.
3) Router has DHCP enabled
3) My wireless NIC seems to be working fine via the control panel
4) When I check my laptop IP address, its not a 192.168.X.X address like everything else on the network
5) Can log on to other wireless routers just fine and use the internet
6) I can "connect" to my router, but can't access any of the other computers or printer on the network
7) All of the computers are part of the same network.
Can anyone think of what the problem is here?
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Also what IP address does your laptop have? If it is 169.254.xxx.xxx then your lappie can't contact your dhcp server to get its ip address to begin with.
Also, my DSL is currently down because the DSL modem died (waiting for a new one off ebay). I've read that this can also lead to problems, but would that stop my laptop from normally being able to connect to the router/network to use things like the printer and see the other computers?
I put up all this security on my network thinking I would never need to get into it again.
Then, I had to add a new pc.
It was a pain in the ass.
Check your MAC adress, IP, SSID and make sure they are all correlating correctly.