Need Real Time help connecting to WiFi network. Please help!!!

Hey guys, I recently moved to a new area with my Vostro 1500. WiFi works EVERYWHERE including home, school, and various hotels. However, I can not get it to work at the lodge I will be staying at for this whole summer while doing my internship. I spent about an hour on the phone with Dell and determined that it isn't my computer but the lodges network that isn't allowing me to connect.

When I'm in the lodge my computer shows 4 different very strong unsecure networks that are available. My computer also shows that I can connect to them. However, once I try to actually get online it just says "page cannot be displayed". You know the most common page for not being connected to the internet.

I have tried everything guys. What can I do?? Its obviously a problem with their type of network and my specific computer because none of the other computers have a problem in the building. One thing I should mention. I did use the Vista tweek guide on this website. Don't know if that matters but I can connect to any other network, just not this one.

I should also mention that sometimes it won't connect to any of the networks at the lodge even though the signal is very good. I could REALLY use some help on this one guys. If I can't solve the problem then I will have to drive about 4 miles everyday just to steal a signal from a hotel to check mail, submit school work and so on as I am doing right now! I should be online for the next hour or so. Then I will have to head back to the lodge for the night and won't be able to answer any questions if you have any. PLEASE HELP!!

 

try to reinstall the driver what is the wireless card

 

Already tried that with the dell rep. Its a dell wireless 1395 WLAN Mini-Card

 

Sorry but I gotta run for the night. Please post any info you might think could help. I'll get on again tomorrow evening. Thanks, Wes

 

Why don't you talk to the IT guy at the lodge? He will tell you exactly what you need to do to get access to their network.

 

Sounds like interference to me. Is there a place you can plug into their internet connection? That might isolate some issues.

 

you may be connecting to the network, but you aren't getting on the net......

try IPCONFIG/all and let us know

how you tried pinging???

Can you ping 209.85.173.10 then try www.google.com?

 

Yep, tried the ping thing. I'm actually connected right now. I tried again today just for the heck of it and it will connect to one network. The signal is pretty weak too. Don't know but its working. Thats all I really care about!! I'll let yall know if it heads south again. Thanks for the help.

 

A utility you might try to see if you can figure out what's going on might be MS' Network Monitor (or any other similar app that might be suggested; I picked this one because I've used it before, not because I think it's the best network monitor out there ). With a network monitor, you should be able to see what sorts of packets your system is sending out, and to which networks, and what sort of packets it's getting back in return (if at all).

Also, check to make sure that your dhcp settings are consistent with the dhcp settings on the wireless routers; I'm going out on a limb here (i.e., I didn't obsessively research this next thought via google for 20 minutes ), but it's possible that your system isn't getting proper DNS information from the router(s), possibly because your system doesn't know where to send DNS name resolution requests (generally, the IP address of the router is given as the default gateway and, if needed, as the DNS server, so that a client computer will pass unknown URLs to the router, which will then send them out to the available DNS servers, and send the answer back to the requesting client - if your computer doesn't "know" to send its DNS name resolution requests to the router, it will never be able to get back the IP address for any URL outside the particular subnet).