Windows firewall was not enabled on my laptop or the client's desktop.
John-AldrichTile-Tools From: Ken Hoegeman [mailto:ken.hoege...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 9:25 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Wireless Routers FYI - I have 4 year old laptop with Windows 7 & Nod 4 security suite. At some of my clients I can connect to their secure WAP (not Netgear), but don't get an IP thru DHCP. Connecting with ethernet cable is never a problem. I just disable the firewall get the IP address and then turn the firewall back on. Ken On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 10:17 AM, John Aldrich <jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com> wrote: This weekend, I spent about 4 hours working at a client's site (side job) trying to get their desktop to link up to their existing wireless router (Netgear.) I never succeeded and I was also unable to get my Dell laptop to talk to their wireless router. After fussing with it for over 2 hours, I went to Walmart and bought a WRT54GS2 Linksys wireless (same exact model I have at home) and hooked it up. Instant success. Long story short - if I ever have a job where I can't get the wireless to connect, and the user has a Netgear wireless router, I'm not even going to spend time on it, I'll just tell the client I'm going to go buy a different router that *will* work and get another Linksys. Just thought I'd pass this along for anyone who's looking for a new wireless router. J John-AldrichTile-Tools ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
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