Hi, I recently got an Advent laptop with Windows Vista on it but I have problems with connecting to a wifi network. With a Ralink Wireless LAN Card V2.
The problem is that I can connect to a network but I can't connect to the internet, not sure wether I did an internet proviber's software installed or not.
I've tried repeated using connection setup but that didn't work and I'm clueless as what to do.
Also I have Internet Explorer installed on my laptop.
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is the wireless network connected to you internet connection in the first place?
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blue68f100 Notebook Virtuoso
Make sure you can connect via wired before moving to wireless.
Check your firewall settings on NB. If Symantic FW It's probably the source. I would uninstall Symantic FW & AV and Install something with a lower overhead, like Comodo. Symantic just sucks up all the resources and uses 1/2 of the CPU power to just run it. You will still need to add a FW rule to allow your local subnet. -
Or you can see if the ip address you've been given is part of the router's network. For example, when I sometimes have this problem, I go to Run -> cmd. Then I type ipconfig and see what my address is. I already know that my router should give me an address that looks like 192.168.0.1 or similar... So if I get something like 169.178.x.y then I know there's a problem renewing my IP. In this case, I'd just manually set an ip for my machine.
Sort of a hassle, I know... But it beats not having internet
Trouble connecting
Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by stormwell, Aug 7, 2007.