I sat up a wireless network at my new house, and everything seems to be working just fine (sat up encryption and the rest, all without a hitch). EXCEPT, for one thing... The laptop I used initially to connect directly to my router (a linksys) to configured it is giving me some issues now. It works ONLY when I connect it directly to an ethernet cable (a wired connection to the router), but now that I'm trying to use it through its built-in wireless device -- like any other laptop/PC I have -- it's not working, for whatever reason. Basically, I can see the wireless network and even connect to it, but for whatever reason when I actually pop up Firefox or IE to use the Internet nothing loads up! I tried everything I know, but to no avail. This is the only laptop that is giving me issues, and it was working just fine before I moved to my new residence. Any idea why that is? I copied the MAC address and stuff like that when I initially sat up the router (per Linksys' own setup guidelines), but I have no idea if that actually had any bearing on it. Thanks for any help you guys can provide in advance...
change the channel your router broadcasts on. type in 192.168.1.1 in your browser address and configure it. password should be default or admin
try this experiment. While connected to wireless, go to firefox and instead of typing yahoo.com, type: 206.190.60.37 and see if anything pulls up. If my guess is right, you should get an error page from yahoo. In that case, it probably is a DNS issue (Domain Name Service). In a nutshell, your laptop doesn't know how to translate words (like yahoo) to the internet numbers it uses. I used to get this problem, and the way to solve it was to go into my router settings and tell them what Domain Servers to use. You should be able to find the domain servers based on your service provider with a google search. Just search "DNS Server Comcast" or what not.
Do you use the laptop to connect to mulitple wireless locations? If so, is the other location also named Linksys? Change the router name.......make it unique, you might be confusing your PC. DD
