Wireless Dell problem

ChipLdr

My wireles network at home has been working fine for over a year. My broadband went down on friday and it didnt come back. I reset the DSL Zyzel modem and wireless router and reconfigured the two laptops (macbook and a dell) and desktop to account for this change.

Everything is back working fine apart from the Dell. It can connect when wired to the internet but not wireless.It sees the network,has excellent strength,says its connected and connects i can pass files between it and other computers via shared folders but I cant access the internet.I also cannot access the modem/router address ie. 192.168.1.* wirelessly from the dell but can when wired.

I have turned off the firewalls both Windows and norton to check but no use so i'm thinking conflicting IP's but i have changed the IP addresses so that they are all unique but still reside in the client pool address range.

I know a solution maybe to update the network card driver but why should it be needed if it was working fine until the broadband crash.

Laptop is running Windows XP home SP2.

formatman

try right clicking network connection on the dell and choosing repair , if everything else seems fine then sometimes this works

otherwise start with turning off security and getting the laptop connected via wireless first with no security

presume the Macbook works ?

also any reason you don't want to use DHCP ?

lastly check in the windows ip config you don't have any alternative IP config set

irlrobins

Have you set the gateway ip address on the Dell? Should be set to the router or modem's ip. (depending on whether modem is bridged or not).

Edit: also set primary DNS server to the modem/router's ip

ChipLdr

Thx all for the help. It turned out the Dell kept trying to connect to a old network that didnt exist anymore.So simply removing all traces of the network did the trick. Apologies all:rolleyes: