Wireless says connected but wont connect to Internet..

iggy

Hi

I have a Samsung NC10 with XP. I travel to different offices of my company around Ireland.

They all use the same WEP key to connect wirelessly but I can only connect to one of them.


I have the wireless network connection icon on my toolbar which says Im connected but I cant connect to internet bar one.

Any ideas?

The signal strength always says good or excellent.

WIZE

In internet explorer

go to

Tools - Internet options - connections - LAN settings and make sure nothing is ticked then close and reopen your internet browser

Mr. Presentable

Maybe this:

TCP/IP stack repair options for use with Windows XP with SP2.

Start, Run, CMD to open a command prompt.

Reset WINSOCK entries to installation defaults: netsh winsock reset catalog

Reset TCP/IP stack to installation defaults. netsh int ip reset reset.log

Reboot the machine.

iggy

Most Haunted wrote: »

In internet explorer

go to

Tools - Internet options - connections - LAN settings and make sure nothing is ticked then close and reopen your internet browser

Thanks for reply.

I'll try that tomorrow..

WIZE

What is ticked at the moment

iggy

Most Haunted wrote: »

What is ticked at the moment

There is nothing ticked.

WIZE

Then you should try automatically detect settings . Give it a go . You can try it now if you want . It shouldn't effect your connection

iggy

I ticked the ' automatically detect settings' box.

I will be going to an office tomorrow and see if it works.

Thanks for your help.

Its just a bit weird that it can connect to one LAN and not others.

WIZE

Did you get your connection working

iggy

Most Haunted wrote: »

Did you get your connection working

No joy on getting connected to internet.

Tried again today- says im connected with excellent signal strength but I cant connect to IE.

Would trying a different browser make any difference?

RoadKillTs

click Start > Run and type "cmd" without quotes and hit OK, then at the command prompt type "ping www.boards.ie" without quotes and hit enter.
Do you get a reply back or does it say timed out?

iggy

RoadKillTs wrote: »

click Start > Run and type "cmd" without quotes and hit OK, then at the command prompt type "ping www.boards.ie" without quotes and hit enter.
Do you get a reply back or does it say timed out?

Thanks I'll try that.
I wont be at the connection point until Monday and I'll report back then

marco_polo

They definately don't use any (or different) web proxies at the different office locations?

iggy

marco_polo wrote: »

They definately don't use any (or different) web proxies at the different office locations?

Would the icon on the tool bar show as connected if they were using different proxies?

A guy in work gave me WEP key and said it should work at every office location.

RoadKillTs

Would the icon on the tool bar show as connected if they were using different proxies?

Yes.

Mr. Presentable

iggy wrote: »

Would the icon on the tool bar show as connected if they were using different proxies?

A guy in work gave me WEP key and said it should work at every office location.

It would. The connection shown is to the router.

Do you have dynamic IP set on your lappy?

iggy

RoadKillTs wrote: »

click Start > Run and type "cmd" without quotes and hit OK, then at the command prompt type "ping www.boards.ie" without quotes and hit enter.
Do you get a reply back or does it say timed out?

I did this and it says " timed out"

MunsterCycling

How is your IP allocated? If it is not dynamic then the best bet is that the other offices use a dirrerent subnet to the one in the office where you connect.

Check this first then report back, can you get online via a wired connection?