Irritating wireless problem

gam3r

gam3r

gam3r

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I have this stupid problem where by sometimes I can't connect to the internet through my wifi network.

The problem is sometimes for some reason my laptop connects to SKY 2 instead of just SKY and then I have no internet connectivity. There is no way to fix it, just by luck it will start working again after a million reboots etc etc...

How do I fix this?
 
if your using the windows wi-fi connection program thingy, double click on the logo on the taskbar at the bottom, then go properties, wireless networks and then you can change which network it connects to first and automatically, thats how i do it on XP :)
 
Hi,

Thanks for the reply. I do that and it just lists SKY 2 instead of just SKY with no internet connectivity. I can't even get to the router config pages when its connected to this network.
 
kk how far away is your computer from the SKY router as different routers have different signal strengths, and it happens on both my networks as well, or maybe there is something wrong with the sky router its self??? :)
 
It's just downstairs mate. I'm not really sure most of the time it works fine but it just started happening on my laptop. It happend a few months ago as well.
 
is the router newer than the laptop, because then the router may not be transmitting in a compatible signal e.g. the router is transmitting on the N standard and the laptop may only be able to connect to the G standard, this is unlikely but might be causing it :)
 
Hello,

Nope laptop is newer and in I know they are compatible I think it's more to do with Windows 7 mucking something up but I just cant find the fault...
 
So this occurred again recently and I think I found the cause...I checked when it connected to the weird "2" network the ipconfig status..and it the gateway was listed as a weird IP, so I went to that IP and it was my NAS...

I went into my NAS settings and turned DHCP server off...does that sound like the problem?

It fixed my connection...
 
Yes that will probably fix it as its just beating the router to give you and ip and thus giving wrong information.
 
Turn off DHCP on your router aswell, if you can with Sky :S. Then just assign a static IP, set the router as Gateway and DNS. You might aswell turn off broadcasting for security whilst your at it.
 
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