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Offline aircombat

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« on: August 24, 2007, 12:38:59 AM »
I've got a Compaq Presasio R3310CA laptop that has both an ethernet (Realtek RTL8139 Fast Ethernet NIC) and a Wi-Fi (Broadcom 54g MaxPerformance 802.11g) network adapters. Before I brought it home from my girlfriend's place for the first time, I used the wi-fi card to connect to her unsecured wireless network. The internet worked fine - this was before I reinstalled XP, and updated to SP2. I did re-install all the drivers for all the built-in hardware, and I know they're both working fine. I took it home, and set it up for my broadband (Bell) connection with the ethernet card. I can connect to the internet fine and use both Mozilla and IE for internet surfing, and MSN all fine. But when I go back to her place, I can connect to the network but Mozilla IE and MSN do not work. Even after deleting my sympatico connection and playing around with settings, still nothing.

Any ideas or suggestions on my next steps?
Thanks a ton
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Offline Joshyboy

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« Reply #1 on: August 31, 2007, 07:40:21 AM »
My friend had a Compaq and he had many wireless problems wouldn't recommend them as a laptop of my choice. Still got warranty left?
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« Reply #2 on: August 31, 2007, 08:42:12 AM »
are you sure it isnt her connection? Have you tested it on a second computer to be sure?
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« Reply #3 on: August 31, 2007, 09:34:23 AM »
Doesn't sound like your machine is picking up the ISP's DNS addresses which is necessary to translate domain names(i.e google.com) into Ip Addresses for you to be able to surf the net. Have you run an "ipconfig /all" in the command prompt to at least make sure your computer is picking up the ISP DNS addresses from her router?
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« Reply #4 on: August 31, 2007, 06:22:11 PM »
Do you have obtain IP address in network connections or do you have an already put in IP address?
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« Reply #5 on: September 01, 2007, 11:04:55 PM »
hey, thanks for the replies guys.

I don't know what I did, I was frigging around with the settings and now it seems to be working fine, I can transition from wireless to wired connections easily.  At least when I plug into a router, I haven't tried my internet at home because we're moving, but I did plug into my friend's router which has cable internet and it worked without setup, the same day I was connecting to wireless.

Thanks for the tips though guys!
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