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Wireless Not Working

Feb 24, 2004 4:30PM PST

I have 12 students here in Japan. They all have exactly the same notebook with XP Pro and built-in wireless. For the first time in a month or so, they all came in and started a session for employment searching.

Ten worked fine as usual. Two did not. The wireless indicator and properties showed a strong signal, but IE would not connect. I brought in two "loaners," two more identical PCs and they worked, so it wasn't a room/capacity problem. I then used cables to connect the problem two directly to the LAN, and they worked fine. Just these two, while identical to the other ten in every way I can see and figure, would not work in wireless mode.

Before I send them in for repair, is there anything I can check or try?

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Re:Wireless Not Working and how is that WAP configured?
Feb 24, 2004 10:35PM PST

I set my WAP to allow ONE user only. You didn't reveal if you set your WAP to allow more than 10 users.

Bob

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Re:Re:Wireless Not Working and how is that WAP configured?
Feb 25, 2004 8:53AM PST

No, but I did say that I brought in two other "loaner" PCs, and then had all students online. From that I assume it's not a capacity/limit problem. Even by themselves, they will not work wireless. They have all the critical updates and have been checked for viruses. Everything else about them works fine.

If I connect them to the LAN by cable, they access the Internet and work just wonderfully, but on "wireless," even with the incoming signal obvious and strong, they will not.

What could it be?

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Re:Re:Re:Wireless Not Working and how is that WAP configured?
May 24, 2004 6:44AM PDT

Maybe those two students with the troublesome laptops changed the settings in the network configuration on the machines. Did they take them to an internet cafe and try to connect to a wireless set up?? Two different network cards (wire/wireless), two different configurations. Worth a look?

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Wireless Help
Nov 10, 2009 3:03PM PST

I am having the same style of problem-- a few days ago our cable modem quit transmitting data (strange) so Time Warner replaced it. Now my wireless dongle (Dell 1450 Dual-Band) connects to the network just fine, but can't see out to the Internet. I tried replacing the wireless router (first was Airlink 101, second was Netgear, both unsecured [factory default], and it still didn't work.

I tried using a different wireless card, and still no success. However, when I run an Ethernet cable directly to the cable modem, internet works fine.

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5 years later.
Nov 10, 2009 8:11PM PST

This is an old post so you might not get many replies.