Hi,
I got a new laptop the other day, my friend set my wireless up for me and got it working with my desktop but when I turn my desktop off I cant get the internet on my laptop!?
My laptop is connected to my wireless, its just the internet i cant get when the comps off. Please help, its driving me mad.
P.s, I went to my boyfriends house and I connected to his wireless with no trouble! What could it be? (im not a computer person)
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Your friend set up your computer with Internet connection sharing
I can only surmise that your desktop has two network cards? and he connected a wireless access point to the second network port. Why he did that, I don't know...
Perhaps he had a wireless access point, rather than a router, and no other way to do it? -
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You need to describe exactly what hardware you have (device model numbers, a physical description of how everything is connected, internet service).
Without that , we cannot walk you through a better setup.
...or get a new friend who doesn't like torturing you -
That's about the size of it; anything else ends up being the forum equivalent of the 12 blind men groping the various bits of an elephant.
Desktop is turned off then ihave no internet on my laptop?
Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by janey83, Mar 30, 2009.