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Wireless Network Problem

hac07007666

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Posted August 10, 2011 at 10:40PM

Ive been having problems with the Wireless connection on my laptop for a while now. Basically even though the signal strength is shown as excellent and hovering over the little monitor in notification area shows "Internet access" i cannot connect to the Internet via WiFi. The strange thing is when i connect an Ethernet cable the signal strength on the bottom goes up and i get Internet access but the computer seems to think its got a wireless connection, even though its actually a wired connection. Ive already tried the following

Driver Update Windows Update AntiVirus/Malware Scan Firewall/Anti Virus Off Ethernet Connection Disabled and Enabled Changed router channel reset wep key numerous times Network Scan (no problems found)

System Information

Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (6.1, Build 7601) Service Pack 1 (7601.win7sp1_gdr.110408-1631) Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) CPU P6200 @ 2.13GHz (2 CPUs), ~2.1GHz Memory: 4096MB RAM Available OS Memory: 3892MB RAM

Router Information

SSID : NETGEAR Signal (dBm) : -51 Network Mode : 802.11g Default Encryption : WEP Default Auth : Open Vendor : Netgear BSSID : 00:18:4D:3A:EC:4A Channel : 11 Frequency : 2462 Network Type : Access Point

IPCONFIG FILE

Wireless LAN adapter Wireless Network Connection:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix : Description : DW1501 Wireless-N WLAN Half-Mini Card Physical Address : 68-A3-C4-1D-BA-B9 DHCP Enabled : Yes Autoconfiguration Enabled : Yes Link-local IPv6 Address : fe80: :fc3a:2bba:200a:b9e3%14(Preferred) PIv4 Address : 192.168.0.1 Subnet Mask : 255.255.255.0 Lease Obtained : 09 August 2011 22:45:27 Lease Expires : 10 August 2011 22:45:27 Default Gateway : 192.168.0.1 DHCP Server : 192.168.0.1 DHCPv6 IAID : 292070340 DHCPv6 Client DVID : 00-01-00-01-14-FC-56-76-F0-4D-A2-6D-F7-34

DNS Servers : 192.168.0.1 NetBIOS over Tcpip : Enabled

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection 2:

Media State : Media Disconected Connection-specific DNS Suffix : Description : Broadcom Virtual Wireless Adapter Physical Address : 68-A3-C4-1D-BA-B9 DHCP Enabled : Yes Autoconfiguration Enabled : Yes

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:

Media State : Media Disconected Connection-specific DNS Suffix : Description : Atheros AR8152 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller Physical Address : F0-4D-A2-6D-F7-34 DHCP Enabled : Yes Autoconfiguration Enabled : Yes

Tunnel adapter isapter.{CA0B0512-AAD3-4C00-BF90-674DB4237239}:

Media State : Media Disconected Connection-specific DNS Suffix : Description : Microsoft ISATAP Adapter Physical Address : 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-E0 DHCP Enabled : No Autoconfiguration Enabled : Yes

Tunnel adapter Local Area Connection* 9:

Media State : Media Disconected Connection-specific DNS Suffix : Description : Microsoft 6to4 Adapter Physical Address : 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-E0 DHCP Enabled : No Autoconfiguration Enabled : Yes

Tunnel adapter Teredo Tunneling Pseudo-Interface:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix : Description : Teredo Tunneling Pseudo-Interface Physical Address : 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-E0 DHCP Enabled : No Autoconfiguration Enabled : Yes IPv6 Address : 2001:0:5ef5:79fb:14e5:32d2:3f57:fffa (Preferred) Link-local IPv6 Address : fe80: :14e5:32d2:3f57:fffa%13(Preferred) Default Gateway : : : NetBIOS over Tcpip : Disabled

Tunnel adapter isatap.{B3E5EFFB-39C5-4E18-BBEC-3BC2BEB458E3}

Media State : Media Disconected Connection-specific DNS Suffix : Description : Microsoft ISATAP Adapter #4 Physical Address : 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-E0 DHCP Enabled : No Autoconfiguration Enabled : Yes

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hac07007666

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Posted August 13, 2011 at 3:42AM

*bump

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mgmcc

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Posted August 15, 2011 at 1:54PM

The Laptop's IPv4 address cannot be 192.168.0.1 as that is the address of the Router and Default Gateway.

Check in the Local Area Connection's Properties (the wired adapter) to ensure that it hasn't been Shared. Setting it as shared, by ticking the box to "Allow other network users to connect through this computer's internet connection" would give the Wireless Network Connection the address 192.168.0.1

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hac07007666

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Posted August 16, 2011 at 2:01AM

No the Shared box is unchecked

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mgmcc

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Posted August 16, 2011 at 8:07AM

...so what is the Laptop's IP address as it cannot be the same as the router's?

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