I have a Belkin 802.11g wireless router hooked-up
to Comcast digital cable internet. This router is
feeding a Dell laptop and Dell desktop. A few
nights ago I came home and neither computer could
connect to the router via wireless, although I
could plug the laptop in via ethernet and
everything worked fine (this whole time I tried to
restart the router, but nothing helped the lack
of wireless access). Sometime the next day the
laptop connected fine via wireless, and the desktop
could connect but it could not get an IP addy
from the router. I tried reinstalling drivers for
the Belkin WG111 usb wireless adaptor, but that
didn't help. Today I bought a D-Link PCI wireless
adaptor, but I'm still having the same problems.
I've run my spyware program (came back negative),
and I'm currently running a virus check. I have
WPA security on the router, and to the best of
my knowledge haven't turned that off for any
reason. In fact, the night I lost connection with
the desktop, we were only gone for a few hours,
and everything worked fine before we left. So at
this point I'm pretty stumped. It's strange enough
to lose wireless for no appearant reason, but
it's REALLY strange for wireless to come back on
one comp but not the other. I'm all out of
ideas at this point, so any help would be very
much appreciated.
Junior Member Posts: 15 Registered: 10/9/05 Status: Offline
posted on 11/9/05 at 08:56
One thing to try is click the wifi icon in
the bar, click properties then wireless networks and
in the box remove all connections except your
router connection and see if this helps, of course
if there is only the one connection for you
router it wont help...:{
