Hi Guys,
hope someone can shed some advice as to what to try to get this machine to behave.
Windows XP Toshiba Satellite L25 with Atheros AR5005G wlan
-running SP3
-Microsoft Security Essentials
Issue:
Connects to hotel wifi, but will not surf. Ocassionally will give limited connectivity message.
Should note we have two other machines that connect fine, one running Windows 7 the other Vista.
Things i've tried:
uninstalling the adapter & letting XP detect & reinstall
new drivers
turning off power saving mode
enabling netbios over tcp/ip
disabled windows firewall
reset internet explorer
(last two were suggestions from another forum)
Hope someone will be able to help me it's driving me crazy. It was connecting & working fine @ home.
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For starters;
* Has it ever connected to the Hotel's wireless and *worked*?
* When it 'connects' to the wireless, open up command prompt and do a ping to say google.com. Do you get replies, or timeouts?
* While 'connected' to the Hotel's wireless open up command prompt and do a ipconfig /all and hit enter. Looking at the Wireless NICs IP configuration what are you getting for an IP address? It's not 169.254.X.X right? What about the DNS IP?
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there is no encryption the network is open, it hasn't been able to connect since we've been here, but all the other laptops do
it's getting an ip address (checked in ipconfig)
and it pings google
:S
or at least it was, (pinging google is no longer working) I think i've just made it worse following this guide to repair winsock and the last part failed. had to repair winsock with another application :S -
It attempts to be trying to connect to a webpage (msn) says it's watiting for msn.com and it has the site name coming up on the tab which is farther than it was going before, but still not browsing
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Took the computer to another hotspot & it connects fine with no problems :S This one has wpa2 encryption.
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Try using the Google dns (8.8.8.8) and (8.8.4.4) and do a ipconfig /flushdns
Win XP connects to wireless but can't browse other PC's connect fine
Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by drtigerlilly, Jan 24, 2011.