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    USB Wireless not working PLZ HELP!

    Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by m394byt3, Apr 15, 2007.

  1. m394byt3

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    My friend have an old laptop, looks like refurbished no-name (Corporation Computers is all it says) laptop. Celeron 1.4Ghz, 192MB Ram with Windows XP Home Edition SP2 installed.

    He uses a USB Belkin 54g Wireless USB Adaptor to connect to the wireless.

    All shows fine, all drivers correctly installed. After I manually put in WPA encryption key, it actually shows CONNECTED TO FDW51 (SSID). It shows as if its working normally, but if I click on Internet Explorer the "page cannot be displayed" appears.

    The network adapter is DHCP. If I put in ipconfig in cmd prompt, it shows:

    IP: 192.168.0.6
    default gateway: 192.168.0.1

    All seems okay for me, why is it not working??? please help, much appreciated!!
     
    m394byt3, Apr 15, 2007
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    Can you ping 192.168.0.1?
     
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    Yes I can. Any suggestions?
     
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    Can you ping 66.94.234.13?
    If so, can you ping yahoo.com?
     
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    Ah man can you believe it! I fixed it! All it was was a silly setting under LAN properties. There were proxy settings etc which I just changed to default (obtain automatically) and now is working perfect! It's really amazing how only 2 ticks can bugger up your system from working properly!

    Thanx WackyT for your input much appreciated. :)
     
    m394byt3, Apr 15, 2007
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    Glad to help out! [​IMG]
     
    WackyT, Apr 15, 2007
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