[Mch209]

hi i have an acer aspire 5315 and im running windows vista home basic, My wireless has had no issues at all until i came to oklahoma yesterday and my internet will not connect to my dads wireless, but at my moms it had no issue, and at the airport i connected to there wifi with no issues also, is there some kind of setting that gets changed when you connect to the internet in the airports that wouldnt allow you to get on your internet at home? somebody PLEAAASE help this is really frustrating me :facepalm::banghead::huh::angry::banghead:

 

[Wand3r3r]

Sounds like you dads wifi is encrypted and the rest are not. Get the key from him and you should be fine.

 

[Mch209]

i entered his pass key and it went through and it says i have all bars but its not receiving the packets

 

[Wand3r3r]

Go to a command prompt as admin [right mouse click on command prompt for this option]

type ipcongfig /all and post the results into a post here for review.

 

[Dellenger80]

What about downloading the latest firmware?

 

[Mch209]

Wanderer okay its gonna take me a minute or so to write all this down for you because i dont have a connection on that laptop

 

[Mch209]

is there certain things on here that would help you help me or you need to see it all

 

[Wand3r3r]

what is your ipaddress and gateway ip

 

[Mch209]

description: atheros AR5007EG wireless network adapter
Windows IP Config
Host name: LH-ENZEK73EXQK9
Primary Dns Suffix:
Mode type: Hybrid
Ip Routing enabled: No
WINS proxy enabled: no

.....................................................
Physical address : 00-1E-4C-56-C2-D6
DHCP ENABLED : YES
AUTOCONFIG ENABLED : YES
LIK-LOCAL IPV6 ADDRESS: FE80::406B5F8:A70:6331%9(PREFERRED)
IPV4 ADDRESS: 192.168.1.119 (PREFERRED)
SUBNET MASK: 255.255.255.0
DEFAULT GATEWAY:192.168.1.1
DHCP SERVER: 192.168.1.1
DHCPV6 IAID: 234888780
DNS SERVERS: 192.168.1.1
NETBIOS OVER TCPIP: ENABLED

Thats for the WIRLESS LAN ADAPTER

 

[Wand3r3r]

You are getting valid ip and should have internet

next do a..
tracert yahoo.com and post the results

 

[Mch209]

all i got is a bunch of options is that supposed to happen?
and it says yahoo.com is not a valid command option

 

[Wand3r3r]

type exact as stated. if you get options it means you foobarred the command

tracert yahoo.com then hit enter

it will look similar but not the same to this

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.0.6002]
Copyright (c) 2006 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Users\>tracert yahoo.com

Tracing route to yahoo.com [209.191.122.70]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 30 ms 19 ms 23 ms 76.164.39.1
2 13 ms 23 ms 70 ms ge2-24--5.cr01.ptleorte.integra.net [209.63.115.
133]
3 22 ms 21 ms 18 ms tg13-1.cr01.sttlwatw.integra.net [209.63.114.97]

4 19 ms 16 ms 17 ms tg1-1.br01.sttlwawb.integra.net [209.63.114.134]

5 52 ms 22 ms 17 ms pat2.swp.yahoo.com [198.32.134.35]
6 54 ms 42 ms 50 ms ae-5.pat1.gqb.yahoo.com [216.115.101.111]
7 136 ms 110 ms 98 ms ae-3.pat1.dnx.yahoo.com [216.115.101.194]
8 90 ms 133 ms 114 ms ae-8.pat2.dax.yahoo.com [216.115.96.59]
9 68 ms 70 ms 68 ms ae-2-d100.msr1.mud.yahoo.com [216.115.104.105]
10 69 ms 102 ms 110 ms te-7-1.fab2-a-gdc.mud.yahoo.com [209.191.78.139]

11 77 ms 86 ms 100 ms te-9-2.bas-c2.mud.yahoo.com [209.191.78.171]
12 73 ms 73 ms 69 ms ir1.fp.vip.mud.yahoo.com [209.191.122.70]

Trace complete.

 

[Mch209]

it said tracert yahoo.com
unable to resolve target system name yahoo.com

 

[Mch209]

type exact as stated. if you get options it means you foobarred the command

tracert yahoo.com then hit enter

it will look similar but not the same to this

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.0.6002]
Copyright (c) 2006 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Users\>tracert yahoo.com

Tracing route to yahoo.com [209.191.122.70]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 30 ms 19 ms 23 ms 76.164.39.1
2 13 ms 23 ms 70 ms ge2-24--5.cr01.ptleorte.integra.net [209.63.115.
133]
3 22 ms 21 ms 18 ms tg13-1.cr01.sttlwatw.integra.net [209.63.114.97]

4 19 ms 16 ms 17 ms tg1-1.br01.sttlwawb.integra.net [209.63.114.134]

5 52 ms 22 ms 17 ms pat2.swp.yahoo.com [198.32.134.35]
6 54 ms 42 ms 50 ms ae-5.pat1.gqb.yahoo.com [216.115.101.111]
7 136 ms 110 ms 98 ms ae-3.pat1.dnx.yahoo.com [216.115.101.194]
8 90 ms 133 ms 114 ms ae-8.pat2.dax.yahoo.com [216.115.96.59]
9 68 ms 70 ms 68 ms ae-2-d100.msr1.mud.yahoo.com [216.115.104.105]
10 69 ms 102 ms 110 ms te-7-1.fab2-a-gdc.mud.yahoo.com [209.191.78.139]

11 77 ms 86 ms 100 ms te-9-2.bas-c2.mud.yahoo.com [209.191.78.171]
12 73 ms 73 ms 69 ms ir1.fp.vip.mud.yahoo.com [209.191.122.70]

Trace complete.

when i typed in tracert yahoo.com i got nothing of that sort, it still says unable to resolve target system name yahoo.com

 

[Mch209]

i understand your probably getting frustrated with me right now lol but please just have patience, i typed it EXACTLY as told and it just keeps saying unable to resolve target system name yahoo.com

 

[Wand3r3r]

no problem at this end. I was actually out of the office doing things

it means your dns pointer ie to the gateway is invalid. You have internet access but without name resolution you don't have a way to resolve a url to a ip address which results in no internet.

It can also mean you are not connected to your dads wifi but a neighbor.

if you type in the gateway ip do you get your dads router? Can you logon to it? This will confirm you are on the right router.

Next thing to try is give your wifi a static ip at
192.168.1.254
255.255.255.0 subnet mask
192.168.1.1 gateway
8.8.8.8 dns [its google's public dns server]

see if you can run the tracert yahoo.com command then.

 

[Mch209]

can you please walk me through that a little bit? lol sorry i know dont know a super good amount about computers.

 

[Wand3r3r]

get to vista network and sharing center via control panel
left pane click on manage network connections
right mouse click on the wifi card and go to properties
then go to tcp/ip v4 properties
click on use this address and type in the info I gave you.
save, exit, reboot and logon the wireless again.

 

[Mch209]

No it still wont do it :/

 

[Wand3r3r]

lets see a ipconfig /all from your pc as well as one that is working in the house.

can you ping 209.191.122.70 successfully?