The router is a Buffalo router, it's fairly sophisticated and allows a lot of variables. I have checked all the settings for it but have found nothing which seems to be connected with the problem.
My problem, in more detail, is that I am able to connect to the internet -- that is to say that the wireless LAn icon in the task tray appears active and I am able to ping IPs -- however, I cannot use my browsers or sign in to MSN. the browsers simply displah the same message they would if I wasn't connected at all. It is very odd. I seem to be connected yet my laptop (dell, inspiron 9200) doesn;t behave as if it were.
I have read elsewhere on the net that uninstalling and reinstalling the drivers for the intel proset might solve the problem. However I'm reluctant to do that because I would have to download the drivers using another computer onto removable media and then run them on this laptop, I wonder if the drivers would automatically find the intel proset. In any case this laptop is very new so that is unlikely to be the problem.
As for firmware for the router, I'm not quite sure how to update the firmware. I have not found anything to `click that allows me to update the router.
thoughts?