feodosij
Newbie  Posts: 3 Registered: 16/5/05 Status: Offline |
posted on 16/5/05 at 14:14
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I have a friend who is having trouble with his
wireless Internet connection.
His connection works everywhere except at the baseball
stadium where he uses it for his radio show.
It's worked there fine for at least a year,
and he hasn't knowningly changed anything recently.
Everyone else that he works with in the ballpark
can still connect fine.
His laptop tells him that he has a wireless
connection, but he can't get to the Internet or
his email.
This is probably unrelated, but his cell phone has
started losing service in the ballpark too.
Other people with different providers have had the
same problem with their cell phones.
Neither of us have a lot of experience with
wireless stuff, though I'm comfortable messing around
with computer settings if someone can tell me what
to look at.
Does anyone have any ideas? I'd appreciate any
help.
Thanks!
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feodosij
Newbie Posts: 3 Registered: 16/5/05 Status: Offline |
posted on 18/5/05 at 06:36 |
 I
just found out yesterday evening that my friend's
ethernet connection at the ballpark is also not
working. That makes me wonder if this is a
firewall problem or something. That doesn't really
make sense, though, because he can connect (through
wireless at least) in other locations.
Any ideas?
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feodosij
Newbie Posts: 3 Registered: 16/5/05 Status: Offline |
 posted on 19/5/05 at 06:02 |
It seems that my friend has set up a bridge
on his laptop so that he can use that at
home, but the wireless network at the ballpark
doesn't accept bridging.
I found the following documentation at this website
(the law school is on the same network at the
ballpark):
library.law.unc.edu/about_the_law_library/wireless.html#warning
It is possible to accidently disrupt
the network using wireless and Windows XP. If you
cause any disruption, the university will stop your
network access. Please follow these instructions to
prevent the problem. .
If you use Wireless Networking on a laptop with
Windows XP Home, you need to make sure Network
Bridging is disabled. If Network Bridging is not
disabled, network problems can exist.
To verify if Network Bridging is enabled:
Go to START, CONTROL PANEL, NETWORK AND INTERNET
CONNECTIONS,
Click on NETWORK CONNECTIONS.
If you do not see Network Bridge, then you are
fine, and you are done.
IF you DO see Network Bridge, right-click on the
line which looks like: Network Bridge (Network Bridge)
Network Bridge Enabled and click on Delete on
the pop-up menu, select 'Yes' on the Are you
sure? box, and all entries related to Network
Bridge should disappear.
If he follows that advice and kills the bridge,
will he have to reconfigure it every time he
uses his laptop at home?
Any advice or info would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Bonnie |
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humperdink001
Junior Member  Posts: 11 Registered: 10/2/05 Status: Offline |
posted on 23/5/05 at 12:15 |
He should not need the network bridge at his
home either. A netwrk bridge is used to share
internet access to multiple computers. For instance,
you have one main pc connected to a dsl modem,
you turn network bridging on the main pc and
you can connect your other computers to the main
pc to share the internet connection.
hope this helps __________________________________
--jack
http://www.freewifizone.com |
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