I have a laptop in which I use a wireless card to connect to my school's free internet. I can get good signal from the school, and internet works great.
However when at home, I can't connect to the school and must connect to other users w/ good signals. I can find good signal at home, but internet does not work though. When I look at the properties, there's lots of packets being detected, but I only receive very little.
What the fashizy is going on? Does anyone know?
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How far away is your home in relation to your school?
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about 5 or so blocks away.........
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5 blocks is a LONG way as far as wireless networks go. 802.11b doesn't transmit reliably over 300' last that I heard. Get your own internet connection, or go to the school library.
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At home, I'm detecting other signals though (not the school's). The detection is great, but for some reason the internet just don't work.
The good signal that's being detected is even "unsecured," but I still can't seem to access the internet. -
What model laptop did your school give you?
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Actually, it's my own laptop. It's an IBM T30.
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Does your laptop say it's connecting to the access point near your home?
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I'm not sure.
But if a connection is too far, it would definitly show that the signal is too weak, right? And the closer a connection is, the better signal you would get, right?
The access point must be close b/c I'm getting a very good signal.
All I know is that I can connect to the signals. When I connect to weak signals, it'll tell me I have low connectivety. And when I connect to good signals, it's very good and displays on the taskbar that I have good connection...... but internet don't work. -
What IP adress is the access point near your home giving your computer?
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I have it set on automatic.
In any case, I don't have my laptop with me right now. But I recall the IP to be....... 165.xxx.xxx............ something like that. -
OK. If that's the IP address it's getting, then DHCP is turned off on that access point. You won't be able to get to the internet through it without the proper configuration for it.
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Yeah. I was thinking that my configuration needed to be changed. But don't know exactly what.
So then, just enable the DHCP? -
Is DHCP (aquire IP address and DNS addresses automatically) activated for your wireless card? If it is, then you'll have to hunt down the access point near your home and turn it's DHCP on also.
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ok....
In any case, my configuration has to be the same right? -
Not exactly. What DHCP does is assigns a network unique IP address to your computer, and tells it the Internet Gateway IP address and DNS server IP addresses.
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ok....
I'll turn my DHCP on, and if that don't work.... i'll have to go hunting, or i'm screwed right? -
Yup. Try downloading and running NetStumbler to see if you can find any other open access points.
Need help w/wireless connection
Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by tub, Apr 10, 2007.