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    Strange WIFI Behavior, Please HELP!!

    Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by SJ393, May 22, 2007.

  1. SJ393

    SJ393 Notebook Geek

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    Something is happening to my WIFI, a while back, when I noticed that I could not connect to Google, I thought I had some problems with my settings. Instead of trying to troubleshoot, I reformatted my laptop.

    Up until now I have not tried to use WIFI on this laptop. When I did, same strange behavior happened again. This time around I know something isn't right, so I disconnected my wifi then plugged my Ethernet cable back in, google loads up in no time.
    I thought there must be something blocking me from google, but what and why only when I am on wifi. I use only windows firewall, and the settings are the same for lan and wifi.

    I then reconnected my WIFI, fired up command prompt, on wifi, I pinged both google and GMAIL, both of them returned NO problems. (Something is blocking me on my browsers to google and gmail) It makes no sense to me that if it's something to do with windows firewall since I can use firefox to access any other websites. IE7 can not access google nor gmail, either. So it's not firefox related. Is there something I need to do on my windows firewall?

    Can anyone here help me out as to why this is happening?
     
    SJ393, May 22, 2007
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  2. Ice-Tea

    Ice-Tea MXM Guru NBR Reviewer

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    Does your router have a firewall? You may want to check your router for blocked sites on WiFi or something. Most routers can be accessed on 192.168.1.1 or 192.168.1.254
     
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  3. SJ393

    SJ393 Notebook Geek

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    I don't think it's my router since I can access through Ethernet and I can also successfully ping google while I am on WIFI just not through my web browsers.

    Also If I keep trying and waiting for a long time, once in a while google home page would load, but that's once in a while and took ages to load.
     
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    Doesn't hurt to browse a bit through your routers settings..
     
    Ice-Tea, May 22, 2007
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  5. John Ratsey

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    I had a problem a month or so back when I could not access NBR (and some other sites) when plugged into one network but they worked fine when plugged into another network. I uninstalled ZA and everything was fine. I reinstalled ZA (as a clean install) and everything stayed fine.

    However, you aren't running ZA, but I wonder if it is something similar and firewall related. Can you temporarily disable your Windows firewall and see what happens?

    John
     
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    I just tried everything and I concluded that it was something to do with my router blocking google when on wifi, so I searched "router blocking google" and it came up with some people have exactly the same problem. Let me update my firmware and see what happens then.
     
    SJ393, May 22, 2007
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