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    Desktop is turned off then ihave no internet on my laptop?

    Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by janey83, Mar 30, 2009.

  1. janey83

    janey83 Newbie

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    Hi,
    I got a new laptop the other day, my friend set my wireless up for me and got it working with my desktop but when I turn my desktop off I cant get the internet on my laptop!?
    My laptop is connected to my wireless, its just the internet i cant get when the comps off. Please help, its driving me mad.

    P.s, I went to my boyfriends house and I connected to his wireless with no trouble! What could it be? (im not a computer person)
     
    janey83, Mar 30, 2009
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    gerryf19 I am the walrus

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    Your friend set up your computer with Internet connection sharing

    I can only surmise that your desktop has two network cards? and he connected a wireless access point to the second network port. Why he did that, I don't know...

    Perhaps he had a wireless access point, rather than a router, and no other way to do it?
     
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  3. janey83

    janey83 Newbie

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    So what do i need to do now? :confused:
     
    janey83, Apr 3, 2009
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    gerryf19 I am the walrus

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    You need to describe exactly what hardware you have (device model numbers, a physical description of how everything is connected, internet service).

    Without that , we cannot walk you through a better setup.

    ...or get a new friend who doesn't like torturing you
     
    gerryf19, Apr 3, 2009
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    Shyster1 Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    That's about the size of it; anything else ends up being the forum equivalent of the 12 blind men groping the various bits of an elephant.
     
    Shyster1, Apr 3, 2009
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