On Tue, 18 Oct 2005, Pete Holsberg wrote:
Hmmmmm....now Mozilla won't surf!
It was probably surfing what had been cached.
The 500m detects the home LAN but likes a neighbor's better, apparently,
because it shows a connection to it. If that's so, why can't I reach the
Internet with this machine???
I am not sure why the laptop wouldn't be able to use the
neighbor's wap if it has no security turned on. MAC address
filtering perhaps, but then, DHCP on the laptop wouldn't be
working. Could be the signal's locked to the wap, but not
actually "connected"? There are two "connections" to consider
in a wireless data link, the *radio* connection, and the
*ethernet* connection. But I would expect some indication of
ethernet connection failure.
A firewall setting on the laptop could also be preventing
internet access, if the IP settings were set for dhcp, and if
they have changed to match the other wap's dhcp server
settings. But I would expect some indication from the firewall
about any changes.
You might want to limit the laptop to your wap (or other
preferred waps) only. I do not have access to a wireless
machine at the moment, so I can not say exactly where the
following items are located. But they should be on the Wireless
tab of the wireless device properties page. I recall there is a
global wireless setting to not allow automatic connections to
non-preferred waps. Or it may be the other way round, allow
automatic connections only to preferred waps. Then clean out
the Preferred waps list, leaving only those you wish to use.
Each preferred wap will have an option to automatically connect
if within range.
BTW try to find out what channel the neighbor's wap is using,
and set your wap + or - 5 channels from it. For example if the
other wap is using channel 6, use channel 11 (+5) or channel 1
(-5). This will minimize interference between the waps.
I hope I wasn't too muddled in my descriptions above. :)
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