Wireless Internet Problem

lancer player · 04-16-2006, 09:40 PM

Last night I bought a router/acess point and a USB wireless card. Everything worked fine and I was able to acess the internet wireless throughout my house. This morning it will not work. Nothing was touched or altered in any way. I had 3 computers in the network before I switched to wireless. Those 3 computers are still not wireless. I recently got a laptop and wanted wireless capabilties. So with the laptop I have 4 computers in the network. With the new wireless router all the 3 computers acess the internet, but the laptop does not. The icon on the toolbar says:
"Connected to network: linksys"
"Network type: acess point"
"Encryption: off"
"Transfer rate: 54Mbits/sec"

Next to that is the icon of the computer screen and it says:
"Wireless connection 6 (linksys)"
"Speed: 54 Mbps"
"Signal strenght: excellent"
"Status: acquiring network adress"

It was working fine the other day. I reinstalled the software for the USB wireless card twice and nothing was fixed. What is wrong and how do I fix it?

**apj101** · 04-16-2006, 11:31 PM

try restarting the router (can be done by depressing the restart button on the back, or by pulling the power).

Most routers have a disconnect timeout that disconnects the internet if there is no 'activity' for more than xxx time (this option can be disabled in the routers config pages)

Trizoy · 04-17-2006, 05:03 AM

make sure it is compliant b/g.. meaning the router is either b/g or both... and the laptop is also. Also check your local ip pool size. the router has enough ips to assign.

04-16-2006, 09:40 PM	#1 (permalink)
lancer player Bronze Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 30	Wireless Internet Problem Last night I bought a router/acess point and a USB wireless card. Everything worked fine and I was able to acess the internet wireless throughout my house. This morning it will not work. Nothing was touched or altered in any way. I had 3 computers in the network before I switched to wireless. Those 3 computers are still not wireless. I recently got a laptop and wanted wireless capabilties. So with the laptop I have 4 computers in the network. With the new wireless router all the 3 computers acess the internet, but the laptop does not. The icon on the toolbar says: "Connected to network: linksys" "Network type: acess point" "Encryption: off" "Transfer rate: 54Mbits/sec" Next to that is the icon of the computer screen and it says: "Wireless connection 6 (linksys)" "Speed: 54 Mbps" "Signal strenght: excellent" "Status: acquiring network adress" It was working fine the other day. I reinstalled the software for the USB wireless card twice and nothing was fixed. What is wrong and how do I fix it?

04-17-2006, 05:03 AM	#3 (permalink)
Trizoy VIP Member Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Campbell, Ca Posts: 4,645	make sure it is compliant b/g.. meaning the router is either b/g or both... and the laptop is also. Also check your local ip pool size. the router has enough ips to assign. __________________ 01100110 01100001 01110010 01110100

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04-16-2006, 11:31 PM	#2 (permalink)
apj101 Administrator Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: London Age: 26 Posts: 8,877	try restarting the router (can be done by depressing the restart button on the back, or by pulling the power). Most routers have a disconnect timeout that disconnects the internet if there is no 'activity' for more than xxx time (this option can be disabled in the routers config pages)