Can yo u ping the router? I think you have the main computer hooked into the wrong port. Take a look at my picture I posted earlier..
OK and you can get to the net with the main computer? If so then everything should be alright with the router setup. You will just need to setup your laptop properly.. Has the laptop ever been hooked up to the net before? If so then how? Did you install a wireless card or is it built into the laptop?
Can your laptop Ping the router? Did your laptop come with some software for the wireless adapter? Can you hard wire the laptop into the router and it works?
ok I just tryed to ping from my pc and laptop and both work. when i hard wire the laptop connects to the network and works fine on the internet. i followed the required instructions to setup the network from hp's guide but still nothing.
Did your laptop ever allow you to connect to another wireless host, such as one that a college or cafe might have?
Hey bbmayo, glad to see you as well... I always love to drop in, and mess things up... then split... <G> kinza, also what channel is your wireless router set to? 11 or 6?
i have no idea, i think i have figured out the problem if my pc was able to access the internet through the router.
The LAN says limited connectivity or no connectivity and when I try to renew the ip address it says it can't connect to the remote DHCP server.
Kinza I feel for you man!! If your computer can access the internet when hard wired in then you need to look at your wireless setup a little more it is probably your wireless in the laptop. Also you should be on channel 6 this will work best trust me... Try uninstlling all the network crap from your lap top and reboot then let windows install it.. It should be pretty much automatic unless as scubabud is reffering you have another setup on your laptop it could be trying to connect to that setup? Also is your wireless adapter 802.11g? This is from your manual That could be a problem I find it odd that this is all that router will support but that is what it says. You could also try these trouble shooting tips Problem 1: My PC can't locate the Wireless Access Point. Solution 1: Check the following. • Your PC is set to Infrastructure Mode. (Access Points are always in Infrastructure Mode) • The SSID on your PC and the Wireless Access Point are the same. Remember that the SSID is case-sensitive. So, for example "Workgroup" does NOT match "workgroup". • Both your PC and the Wireless Router must have the same setting for WEP. The default setting for the Wireless Router is disabled, so your wireless station should also have WEP disabled. • If WEP is enabled on the Wireless Router, your PC must have WEP enabled, and the key must match. • If the Wireless Router's Wireless screen is set to Allow LAN access to selected Wireless Stations only, then each of your Wireless stations must have been selected, or access will be blocked. • To see if radio interference is causing a problem, see if connection is possible when close to the Wireless Router. Remember that the connection range can be as little as 100 feet in poor environments. Problem 2: Wireless connection speed is very slow. Solution 2: The wireless system will connect at the highest possible speed, depending on the distance and the environment. To obtain the highest possible connection speed, you can experiment with the following: • Wireless Router location. Try adjusting the location and orientation of the Wireless Router. • Wireless Channel If interference is the problem, changing to another channel may show a marked improvement. • Radio Interference Other devices may be causing interference. You can experiment by switching other devices Off, and see if this helps. Any "noisy" devices should be shielded or relocated. • RF Shielding Your environment may tend to block transmission between the wireless stations. This will mean high access speed is only possible when close to the Wireless Router.
thanks for your help guys, still not fixed though. I can't connect through the router to the internet from my pc. If I could get that to work again it would help. I went through Windows setup on the laptop and the laptop is wireless g so it is compatible. I don't know which settings to pick for the pc and laptop connection. The laptop connects when I chose that the pc and laptop connect through a residential gateway. How do I get the internet to work on my pc?
Wow, if only I could get you to answer a couple of questions, I might be able to help. First, have you ever connected before to ANY wireless access point with your laptop. Do you realize that both your modem and your wireless router have firewalls, and they don't like each other for the most part? As I asked before and also mentioned by bbmayo, channel 6 might be the way to go. Do you need to network or are you just trying to use your wireless router for an internet connection?
Well I called the HP support people, thank god I didn't get transferred to India. I tried resetting Winsocks and blah blah blah, he had me change the channel to 8(channel 11 before) still limited or no connectivity on the wifi on my laptop. He concluded that the router was defective. I'm not sure if he is right but I'll give it a try. I'm going to go to CompUsa today within the next two hours and exchange the router and see what happens. Hopefully that will work. I'll keep you guys updated. As for the firewalls I had all the firewalls disabled, I didn't even know there was a modem firewall, never disabled that. The tech support guy said something about MAC address for DSL but said the router was faulty most probably. I just got my laptop and did connect most of the time to the network I setup but the internet connection never worked. Somehow everything went back to before and none of the computers could access the internet from the router and the LAN was constantly on limited or no connectivity. I want both to share an internet connection and share files, but mainly the internet connection.
it WAS that darn router after all!! I went and returned the router and got a new,different brand router and got the network setup in less than 5 minutes, sorry i had to bother you all in this three page thread. I'm so glad today!! Thanks for all your help, ddp, bbmayo, and scubabud!
