No internet access/unidentified network

I've been having this problem since I moved and started using a wireless router. I don't know if some of you know it, but I use AT&T and they use gateway.2wire.net as their "192.168.1.1" I don't know if this is the case but a while back I'd had serious connection problems, sometimes I would have to wait 30 minutes before my computer would have internet coming from "no internet access" or "unidentified network." Sometimes the connection would just randomly disconnect and quite frankly its frustrating. I don't know if its because I'm using Windows 7? I've googled a lot for troubleshooting but nothing really works.

Anyways, I would just love it if my computer had internet access right from when it starts up, but thats not the case right now.

Anyone else experiencing this with Windows 7? Because my mothers laptop is XP and she has internet just fine

 

Sometimes if the carrier, sometimes it's your location. You might want to check with your neighbors and see if they're experiencing any difficulty. I'd also contact AT&T to see if other around you may have complained of this problem

 

I'm prettty sure its not that since my mothers laptop is XP and she always has internet right from startup, unlike me, Windows 7, who has to wait for like 30 minutes for "no internet acess" to disappear so I can use the internet

 

No! No! No! That's not a reasonable conclusion. If anything your connection should be better. You need to test your system at other locations. Have you don't that yet? I tested mine at home, at the library, and at an institution of higher learning. I got great connections on all of those. When I upgraded to W7 I got connections to all kinds on signals I never even knew existed. And that was an upgrade from W/Vista.

In addition, I tested my system side by side with a unit using XP and the W7 connection was solid and stable while the XP kept popping up with a "low signal" bubble.

 

You did not say if you connect wirelessly vs wired. If both are wireless then there is a problem with Win7 propably are driver issue. Make sure you are connecting to your router and not someone elses.

 

i think that this might help. let me get this straight you have the At&t 2Wire and a wireless router right? what you need to do is disable the wireless on the At&t 2Wire and on the wireless router you have change the default gateway to 192.168.1. 2 that should let anyone wireless connect and anyone hard wired. with At&t you have to change the default gateway on what ever wireless router you buy or turn the 2Wire into a bridge to the wireless router. changing the default gateway on the wireless is by far the easiest.

 

I'm noticing now that it Kaspersky may have been the culprit. I'll check back if some disconnections happen again. When I was connecting to the wireless network with Kaspersky off it still did seem to have problems...