Gah connection gone again

paulsheffII · 30 Jul 2007 at 21:23

I replaced my d-link usb wireless adapter that came with my router on my Windows Me machine because while it connected to the router, I couldn't get FF2 or IE6 or AVG to use the connection.

The Dynamode replacement worked great, even let me setup WPA which the d-link never did, but again, today, for no apparent reason, good connection to the router, but not able to use the connection...

My phone has wireless on it and that connects in the same room. The computer has a good connection to the router (well 11mbps, only a 1MB BT line) so I don't know why non of the programs seem able to make use of it!

Any thoughts appreciated.

mynsa · 31 Jul 2007 at 07:46

So windows is able to connect while IE and firefox wont browse the web?

do any other programs work over the internet or just them two affected?

What does the error message say when you try to browse the web?

Can you ping your router/access point?

Can you ping outside of your local network network [eg - google.com]?

Have you got your DNS settings correct?

It could be DNS thats the problem, if you are able to connect to the internet but unable to browse the internet you may have misconfigured your DNS settings.

paulsheffII · 1 Aug 2007 at 01:37

Hi Section8, thanks for responding.

Typically it's now working again, AVG updated, browsed with FF2, so I can’t do any tests, but before, it was saying it was connected to the router, and looking at the router admin panel on my main cable connected PC it had the machine listed in the associated stations. The quality of connection is up from 32% to 38%, so I don’t know whether it was just that. Seems weird though.

The only thing I did differently was shut down my machine last night (I normally leave it on) starting it up lunchtime today. Could something on my main machine be getting in the way of the machine on the wireless connection that was reset when I restarted? The wireless machine comes from an old network with a computer workgroup name on it, could that be conflicting somehow?

In LAN clients on the router control panel, it was still showing the wireless machine with a dynamic IP address, even though I’d switched the machine off. So I reserved it and then deleted it. Might keep an eye on that because the one thing I noticed the other day when it wasn’t working was the wireless machine had two IPs dynamically assigned to it. The IPs were different to that of the cable connected machine though.

Cheers

mynsa · 1 Aug 2007 at 14:32

dhcp is based on lease time - you will have this ip until your lease is up - this can be changed in the router.

I have a feeling that the dynamic ip was still in a valid lease and therefore showing it in its dhcp table.

paulsheff · 3 Aug 2007 at 00:22

Went again today, closed the software, disconnected, reconnected the usb, started the software, logged into the router, pinged google. Very bizarre. It seemed to fluctuate on the connection so I've repositioned it a bit, see if that helps.