Ok so I was waiting for internet explorer 8 to install on my laptop so I went to my downstairs computer that is hooked up to a cable modem and right clicked on my printer and click share, it went through the work group set up wizard and i did it. I named the workgroup MSHOME. And then I went to get on my laptop witch connects via wifi and now it will not connect, it says its connected but i will not load web pages. I opened up CMD PROMPT and type msconfig /all it said media disconnected. I found out how to connect to my MSHOME work group, so i did this
start->control panel->system->name->change workgroup name-> and i changed it to MSHOME. So now my laptop and my desktop were both showing up on the workgroup but my laptop would still not connect via wifi. I read in a forum that I had to make my workgroup the same name as the "SSID" that my router was. so I changed it to DLINK. And then changed it on my laptop. I restarted both computers. And they still do the same thing. So I change my laptops workgroup to something different. In this case. WORKGROUP. Still not working. I need some real help real bad. Is it the browser maybe. The only browser I have is internet explorer 8 so I could not test it on another. Please help all help is greatly wanted! Thanks

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