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Thread ID: 123105	2012-02-03 22:39:00	Wireless network setup problem	Tony (4941)	Press F1

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1257256	2012-02-03 22:39:00	I suspect I'm missing something obvious, so I'm prepared to be embarrassed... I'm trying to set up a wireless network for the first time, to allow my new laptop to connect. I already have a wired network that all works OK. The router is a Netcomm NB6Plus4Wn. I've enable all the wireless stuff in the router and set up security etc. The laptop sees the wireless connection and says it connects. However it says I have "no internet access" - which I don't - and I can't see any of the other PCs on the wired network, although if I show the full map on the laptop it does show them. If I get Windows to diagnose the connection problem on the laptop, it ends up saying "your broadband modem is experiencing connectivity issues" and tells me to reset it etc. The laptop OS is Win7 Home premium. If I provide a wired connection to the laptop everything works fine. Any suggestions?	Tony (4941)
1257257	2012-02-03 23:19:00	Nevermind... reread your post :s On "Wireless Basic Settings" - user Isolation is "Off"? What settings do you have there anyway?	Myth (110)
1257258	2012-02-03 23:21:00	Check 'ipconfig' on both wired & wireless to see if any differences. Try with an 'unsecured' wireless setting. Check router for any funky settings to separate wireless & wired on different subnets or such (not familiar with that model of router). Also check Win firewall settings (for Public, Private, Work etc)	fred_fish (15241)
1257259	2012-02-04 00:24:00	Well, I'm not sure what I did, but it is working now. I tried the suggestions - turned off security, checked Ipconfig etc. - all seemed OK. One other strange thing that was happening was that if I had both the wired and wireless enabled, I was getting no internet access on the wired either - until I disconnected from the wireless. Eventually, after fiddling around, I found if I set both the wired and wireless adapter settings to have fixed (different) ip addresses and the router ip address as the default gateway, it all sprang into life. That's OK for home, but if I'm out on the road I'm going to have a problem again, aren't I, if I have the fixed ip address for the wireless connection? OK, I disconnected the wired connection, and set the wireless adapter settings back to DHCP. Now, when I connect, it says I have internet access initially, but after approx 20secs it goes. WTF?	Tony (4941)
1257260	2012-02-04 01:37:00	Tried disabling your wired interface? IIRC windows will assign a 'dummy' address to the interface if DHCP fails which may be screwing up your routing.	fred_fish (15241)
1257261	2012-02-04 02:09:00	the dummy address is called APIPA	nedkelly (9059)
1257262	2012-02-04 02:51:00	the dummy address is called APIPA Are you sure it's not being A PITA? (Pain In The...)	Paul.Cov (425)
1257263	2012-02-04 02:51:00	I have no idea what is happening. I thought I had it sussed. I checked the DHCP settings on the router, and found that while I had set the IP address to 192.168.0.1 it was generating addresses as 192.168.1.x. So I fixed that up, but it made no difference - in fact now it all seems to be random as to whether something works or not. ATM neither connection is workling. When I woke the laptop, it said they were both OK, and then almost immediately said they were not.	Tony (4941)
1257264	2012-02-04 02:55:00	I haven't seen that anywhere.	Tony (4941)
1257265	2012-02-04 03:34:00	Fingers crossed, it might be sorted. It looks like it is very picky about what you do and in what order. I found that by disabling both the wired and wireless connections, then enabling one and then enabling the other and then connecting to the wireless network, it all seems to be OK. So it is now running with DHCP, which is what I wanted. I now have to find another network and try to connect to that and see if it works there. Thanks everyone for the advice.	Tony (4941)
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