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  • November 17, 2004 at 10:05 am #2291129

    Connect Windows XP to wireless Internet

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    by gsfromws · about 17 years, 6 months ago

    I have a new windows XP laptop. I can’t get a wireless internet connection to work. I have broadband internet and a cable modem and then a switch. A pc and a wireless access point are both connected to the switch. The Windows 2000 PC works fine, but I just can’t get the laptop to connect to the wireless access point and the internet.

    Can anyone give me the step by step of what I need to do or some things I can look for?

    To clarify what I have. Comcast Broadband Internet going through the Comcast provided cable modem which did go directly to my windows 2000 PC. It worked just fine. I bought a windows xp laptop with wireless Internet capability built-in and ready to go. In order to share the single internet connection, I installed a D-Link switch between the cable modem and the PC. The Internet connection on the PC continues to work as it always did, but only through the switch. I also connected a wireless access point to the switch to receive the wireless transmission from the laptop. I configured the access point device as described with the installation instructions. So it is sitting there waiting for the laptop to establish a connection.

    My question is, as much as possible, can someone give me a step-by-step set of instructions as to what needs to be done with the windows xp laptop to establish that wireless connection with the acess point device that is installed?

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    • November 17, 2004 at 10:38 am #3292937

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      by bfilmfan · about 17 years, 6 months ago

      In reply to Connect Windows XP to wireless Internet

      Follow the directions here:
      http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/networking/expert/bowman_02april08.mspx

      If you get totally and helplessly lost, try here:
      http://www.geeksquad.com/main.asp

      • November 17, 2004 at 12:46 pm #3292905

        Reply To: Connect Windows XP to wireless Internet

        by gsfromws · about 17 years, 6 months ago

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        Thank you anyway, but those directions were for configuring the wireless through a host computer. I don’t want to do that. I want to configure it directly to the D-Link wireless access point device. Geeksquad? Do they do windows too?

    • November 17, 2004 at 2:39 pm #3292851

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      by dustyd · about 17 years, 6 months ago

      In reply to Connect Windows XP to wireless Internet

      Tell us what router model you have, and the model of your wireless enabled laptop.

      Make sure you have the same TCP/IP connection settings on your laptop as you do for your desktop. Is the laptop getting IP through DHCP? Turn off Windows firewall for the time being on the laptop. You will need to specify the IP address of the AP in the same range as your desktop, laptop, and switch. Depends on your switch or router. You can use 192.168.0.x1 … 192.168.1.x3 Make sure that you don’t use internet connection sharing, the connection properties should be just blank. Gateway will be your switch IP address.

      Post a comment back with models and go from there.

    • November 17, 2004 at 3:47 pm #3292837

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      by gsfromws · about 17 years, 6 months ago

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      I’m not using a router. I’m using an Access Point, a D-Link DWL-2100AP. My laptop is a Sony Vaio model PCG-K23 as it says under the screen, or PCG-9RFL as it says on the bottom

    • November 17, 2004 at 5:30 pm #3292789

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      by willcomp · about 17 years, 6 months ago

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      Your best, cheapest, and most effective solution is to purchase a wireless router. Routers allow 2 or more computers to share 1 broadband connection, switches and access points do not. To use a wireless AP, you need a router, so may as well go ahead and get a wireless router.

      Since routers and APs cost about the same, why are you trying to use an AP?

      Dalton

    • November 18, 2004 at 5:12 am #3292667

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      by rindi1 · about 17 years, 6 months ago

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      Your access point also acts as a router, as it has a builtin dhcp server which can supply you with private ip address ranges. Is the dhcp server part of that AP turned on?
      Connect your Desktop PC to the access point as well, a lot of ISP providers only give you one client connection (1 ip address), so if your desktop is connected to the inet your laptop won’t be able to connect. The routing function of your AP will be able to connect more pc’s to the inet.

      When you open your control panel and enter start “system”, then have a look at your hardware, is everything OK (no yellow exclamation marks, etc)? Can you see your wlan interface? is it set to active?

      Have you also inspected the case of your notebook? Some have a small slider or switch with which you can turn Wireless adpaters on or off, and this switch is usually difficult to find!

    • November 18, 2004 at 5:35 am #3292650

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      by sgt_shultz · about 17 years, 6 months ago

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      well goodness dear, there are so many things it could be. can you ping the ap? what is your current ip address, subnet mask and gateway? same for ap? if you do not know, start there. what model laptop? have seen sonys with slide switch to turn off/on wireless. what wireless card you got? does it have lights and are they on. you probably also have ethernet port. can you get things working with that for starters? we will need details to help. model numbers and what you have tried. but you always start with ping. if you can ping but no internet you look at dns problem. you check quick for that by attempting to surf by ip address numbers. so you want to try this you go to comnmand prompt and type ping http://www.nfl.com and write down the ip numbers then you enter those in browser address. if that works you got dns problem and post back for help with that include the model numbers of everything

    • November 26, 2004 at 10:51 am #3314987

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      by gsfromws · about 17 years, 6 months ago

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    • May 30, 2009 at 3:08 pm #2943524

      Can’t hook up my wireless

      by mikecole51 · about 12 years, 12 months ago

      In reply to Connect Windows XP to wireless Internet

      My question is, as much as possible, can someone give me a step-by-step set of instructions as to what needs to be done with the windows xp laptop to establish that wireless connection with the acess point device that is installed?

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