broadband/wireless

poppins9000

Hey, just wondering if laptops will connect automatically to the internet without a cd, the laptop is HP pavillion 2000 and am having trouble with internet connections. There are no firewalls on and even if i turn norton internet security off i still have no joy? any ideas?
i can only connect to one website in the college?
yet the wireless is full strength and there are about 4 different connections.
there is broadband with a phone cable connection but it wont connect for me?

JackKelly

College's don't want everyone just connecting to their network, you have to be authorised and allowed onto it, usually through the iss. Check out your college website about getting on their wireless network.

poppins9000

yeah but that's just the wireless, there's broadband connections there too. also it wont connect to broadband using a phone cable.

Tom Dunne

poppins9000 wrote:

yeah but that's just the wireless, there's broadband connections there too. also it wont connect to broadband using a phone cable.

Not sure I'm following you.

Laptops should connect to any wireless network without a CD, assuming the drivers are already installed.

You don't connect to a broadband connection via a telephone cable, the only direct telephone connection is via a dial-up modem - is this what you are referring to?

Or are you referring to a DSL broadband connection which requires a DSL modem?

tonyboy247

Try pluging your lan cable into the CD and see if that works... cos the way I am reading this has just fried my head. I hear Tiny do good educational laptops and suggest one of these and less booze on board. Sorry but I am compleatly confused buddie?..

thebman

poppins9000 wrote:

Hey, just wondering if laptops will connect automatically to the internet without a cd, the laptop is HP pavillion 2000 and am having trouble with internet connections. There are no firewalls on and even if i turn norton internet security off i still have no joy? any ideas?
i can only connect to one website in the college?
yet the wireless is full strength and there are about 4 different connections.
there is broadband with a phone cable connection but it wont connect for me?

I think you mean you can't connect using the college LAN when you say the cable doesn't work. Its unlikely you are using a standard modem phone line in a college with broadband.

Have you connected to the Internet from home or another connection before. It is likely your homepage is loading in your web browser from the cached version of it that is already on your computer (locally) and not the network if only one website works.

Like others have said, go to the Computer Centre on campus and see if you are allowed on the network and if you are, you'll probably have to fill out a form to get on the network.

Some colleges just won't let you on the network no matter what you do.

ethernet

brim4brim wrote:

I think you mean you can't connect using the college LAN when you say the cable doesn't work. Its unlikely you are using a standard modem phone line in a college with broadband.

Have you connected to the Internet from home or another connection before. It is likely your homepage is loading in your web browser from the cached version of it that is already on your computer (locally) and not the network if only one website works.

Like others have said, go to the Computer Centre on campus and see if you are allowed on the network and if you are, you'll probably have to fill out a form to get on the network.

Some colleges just won't let you on the network no matter what you do.

Spot on, brim4brim. My sister had to go to computer services in university to have them install a load of applications for access to a mapped drive and printing facilities. They wiped Norton off her laptop and shoved on some form of McAfee instead.

They requested her MAC address and IP address [don't know why -- surely they use DHCP]. They also used a proxy.

Tom Dunne

ethernet wrote:

They requested her MAC address and IP address [don't know why -- surely they use DHCP]. They also used a proxy.

Requesting a MAC address is standard - only known addresses can access the network. The use of a proxy should be transparent enough to the laptop user.