"Limited or no connectivity"

[ca35]

Hi people,

Firstly I will say that you will have to excuse my ignorance, I'm very bad with computers. Secondly I'm sure this has been covered before, so I hope you will afford me some patience.

My laptop won't connect to the home network. All I get when I try is "limited or no connectivity". I have tried turning on/off the router and modem, but this changes nothing.

I expect you may ask me for the following, so here goes:

Windows IP configuration

Host name......Chris
Primary Dns Suffix......
Node Type......Unknown
IP Routing enabled......Yes
WINS Proxy Enabled......No

Ethernet adapter Wireless Network Connection:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix......
Description......Intel<R> PRO/Wireless 2200BG Connection
Physical Address...... 00 16 6F 44 91 15
Dhcp Enabled.....Yes
Autoconfiguration Enabled......Yes
Autoconfiguration IP address......169.254.75.246
Subnet Mask......255.255.0.0
Default Gateway......

I suspect the problem could have many solutions, but I have no clue how to sort it. Sorry for my ignorance with computational matters. Anyone got any suggestions?

Cheers

Chris

[chrismaher2007]

sounds like your wireless password is incorrect

what make is your router?

you will need to go to the router settings page and get the correct wireless password

[ca35]

sounds like your wireless password is incorrect

what make is your router?

you will need to go to the router settings page and get the correct wireless password

The router is Linksys wireless G WRT54G. Where can I find the wireless password?

[chrismaher2007]

type 192.168.1.1 in the internet explorer address bar on the pc which has internet.
the one your on now i suppose

[ca35]

Ha yeah I have done that, comes up with the router stuff. Though the password is just dots...

[Nibb]

do you mean the WEP password or the router password?

[ca35]

do you mean the WEP password or the router password?

Indeed. When I did a little search beforehand there was no mention of this, though it could have been overlooked. Still I am no closer though

[TotallyRandom]

is the DHCP on in your router?

Go to that router page again > IP Addressing or Network settings >
Should see one Called DHCP make sure that is on or ticked.

What firewall you got running?

[ca35]

Erm, there is an "enable" box ticked for "Network Address Server Settings (DHCP)" if this answers you question?

I have just taken the firewall off because that was a suggestion, but nothing changed when I did that anyway - still 2bars out of 5 signal strength.

Thanks for the help so far people...

[chrismaher2007]

have you found the wep key?

thats what you need to check

your router is online so dont go messing with any other settings

sounds like the dots is refering to your isp login details leave them alone. there fine

[ca35]

Right, so selected WEP key from a drop down menu and there is a passphrase generator with spaces underneath for key 1, key 2 etc. Should I press generate?

[chrismaher2007]

choose 1

then there should be a box that says wep key

if there nothing in there make something up

it has to be hexadecimal

[ca35]

Under "WEP encryption" it says 64 bit 10 hex digits, so that's sorted right? So i should type wep key 1 or something?

[chrismaher2007]

yes make something up

it can only contain the numbers 0-9

and letters a-f

[ca35]

Okay, done...What now? Just typed that into my laptop, but still 2/5 bars "limited or no connectivity"...Nice

Thanks again though, for a second I thought you had cracked it

[chrismaher2007]

whats your ip address now?

[TotallyRandom]

Once you do the above

on you laptop Change you wireless Software to Let windows Manage me network connections from the setting. if it not done already.

So you have the windows wireless manager up
like the one below Click scan and then connect.
Will then ask you to enter WEP key.

[TotallyRandom]

Sorry Firefox crashed and did not think this submitted so hit Submit again and got two posts.

[ca35]

Right,

I typed in the WEP key when it asked me to, i.e. when i tried to connect to the "home" network. No change. Am I meant to be changing any settings on my laptop?

[chrismaher2007]

just tell me what your ip address?

go to run type cmd

then type ipconfig