Wireless problem

Running a Win XP and also configured the wireless card
but i'm unable to access the internet.

It shows 'Excellent signal strength' as well but somehow
doen;t connect to the internet.

On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 07:32:17 -0700, "Dicky"
<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>Running a Win XP and also configured the wireless card
>but i'm unable to access the internet.
>
>It shows 'Excellent signal strength' as well but somehow
>doen;t connect to the internet.

Dicky,

From your problem description (which could use a few details), I'm guessing that
you have a computer connecting wirelessly to a router, then to the internet?

How about make and model of wireless card and router?

Have you tried to connect by cable to the router and check initial settings?
You may need to disable MAC address filtering and WEP / WPA initially, so
connecting by cable to router is always a suggested procedure for initial setup.

Does the router offer any clue? Have you enabled the activity log on the
router? Does it show any activity in the log, or in its lights when your're
trying to connect?

Turn the router off. Does the computer still show excellent signal strength?

Try another channel on the router. If on 1, try 11; if on 11 try 1; if on 6 try
1 then 11.

Let us know how it goes for you please.

Cheers,
Chuck
Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing.

Thanks Chuck,

pls read inline,

From your problem description (which could use a few
details), I'm guessing that
>you have a computer connecting wirelessly to a router,
then to the internet?

yup thats right !

>How about make and model of wireless card and router?
>
I'm using a compaq laptop & the card too is compaq

>You may need to disable MAC address filtering and WEP /
WPA initially, so
>connecting by cable to router is always a suggested
procedure for initial setup.

I've done this as well

>Try another channel on the router. If on 1, try 11; if
on 11 try 1; if on 6 try

i need to try with this one.
thanks a load for ur help.

I still couldn;t get it right.

Cheers,
Dicky

>-----Original Message-----
>On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 07:32:17 -0700, "Dicky"
><anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
>>Running a Win XP and also configured the wireless card
>>but i'm unable to access the internet.
>>
>>It shows 'Excellent signal strength' as well but
somehow
>>doen;t connect to the internet.
>
>Dicky,
>
>From your problem description (which could use a few
details), I'm guessing that
>you have a computer connecting wirelessly to a router,
then to the internet?
>
>How about make and model of wireless card and router?
>
>Have you tried to connect by cable to the router and
check initial settings?
>You may need to disable MAC address filtering and WEP /
WPA initially, so
>connecting by cable to router is always a suggested
procedure for initial setup.
>
>Does the router offer any clue? Have you enabled the
activity log on the
>router? Does it show any activity in the log, or in its
lights when your're
>trying to connect?
>
>Turn the router off. Does the computer still show
excellent signal strength?
>
>Try another channel on the router. If on 1, try 11; if
on 11 try 1; if on 6 try
>1 then 11.
>
>Let us know how it goes for you please.
>
>Cheers,
>Chuck
>Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily
a bad thing.
>.
>

I'm having the same problem. When I first hooked up my
DLink DI-614+ router and the DWL-520 PCI wireless card, I
get to the 'net. Now, all I get is the "can't find
server" message. I'm connected to the net using Cat 5e
thru the DI-614+ which in turn is connected to a Cisco
675 DSL modem/router. The 614 to 675 cable is connected
thru the WAN port on the 614+. My DSL ISP uses DHCP and
not PPPoE.
Thank you.