Wireless Conundrum

eggBrain · 08-24-2009, 08:27 AM

I have a user who has a Compaq Presario laptop, with the HP LAN Wireless assistant. In the house he lives in, he is unable to connect wirelessly, but CAN connect through the hardline.

Here's the conundrum. Another user in the place CAN connect wirelessly.

The wireless is NOT secured by the way.

I have tried disabling the hardline, disabling and re-enabling the wireless assistant, turning the assistant on and off but to no avail. HOWEVER! Here's the kicker...

...I brought it to MY place to see if it will connect to the wireless here (which IS secure) and it connects just fine.

I'm thinking it's the router at the place, but how can one laptop connect and not another? And if it IS the router, what the heck do I look for? It's a Linksys.

Please advise.

-eggBrain

BlueEyedSamurai · 08-24-2009, 07:03 PM

eggBrain - from the laptop to the router you can't connect to can you do an ipconfig /all while wired and wirelessly and copy and paste the results into your next post.

eggBrain · 08-25-2009, 07:01 AM

Samurai,
It can connect wired. I just fixed the problem yesterday/last night as I continued to test at his place. Come to find out, in the Wireless connections tab of the adapter properties, the property of the wireless connection at his house was NOT set to "open" as far as authentication. That was the only thing that was wrong.

This problem is now solved.

Thanks!

-eggBrain

08-24-2009, 08:27 AM	#1 (permalink)
eggBrain Registered User Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 44 OS: Windows XP Professional SP 3	Wireless Conundrum I have a user who has a Compaq Presario laptop, with the HP LAN Wireless assistant. In the house he lives in, he is unable to connect wirelessly, but CAN connect through the hardline. Here's the conundrum. Another user in the place CAN connect wirelessly. The wireless is NOT secured by the way. I have tried disabling the hardline, disabling and re-enabling the wireless assistant, turning the assistant on and off but to no avail. HOWEVER! Here's the kicker... ...I brought it to MY place to see if it will connect to the wireless here (which IS secure) and it connects just fine. I'm thinking it's the router at the place, but how can one laptop connect and not another? And if it IS the router, what the heck do I look for? It's a Linksys. Please advise. -eggBrain

08-24-2009, 07:03 PM	#2 (permalink)
BlueEyedSamurai Registered User Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 15 OS: XP, Vista	Re: Wireless Conundrum eggBrain - from the laptop to the router you can't connect to can you do an ipconfig /all while wired and wirelessly and copy and paste the results into your next post.

08-25-2009, 07:01 AM	#3 (permalink)
eggBrain Registered User Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 44 OS: Windows XP Professional SP 3	Re: Wireless Conundrum Samurai, It can connect wired. I just fixed the problem yesterday/last night as I continued to test at his place. Come to find out, in the Wireless connections tab of the adapter properties, the property of the wireless connection at his house was NOT set to "open" as far as authentication. That was the only thing that was wrong. This problem is now solved. Thanks! -eggBrain