Hi all
The other day my wireless stopped working all of a sudden and I’ve not been able to get it back since. The problem is that I can see other local wireless networks and even connect to some of them (and successfully use the internet), but I can’t see my own.
A couple of things happened around the time of the problem:
1) Installed an audioscrobbler plugin for foobar2000. Internet seemed to go out shortly after first successful scrobble (this could be coincidence).
2) Had some Windows updates download and they seemed to mess with my USB. My old IntelliPoint Microsoft Optical USB mouse packed up and I’ve had trouble copying songs *from* my MP3 player (although I can still copy songs *to* it).
I’m running Windows XP Home with SP3. We have cable internet coming into the house and wired to one computer, then two other PCs connecting wirelessly. Both computers that connect wirelessly are experiencing the same problem. The wired computer still has internet access and I can connect to other local wireless networks and access the internet fine from those.
Wireless adapters are Linksys WUSB11 ver 2.6 and router is BEFW11S4 v2. Router is running latest firmware, is broadcasting SSID and has WEP enabled. I’m also using the station mac filter. All details are correct as far as I’m aware (did a full reset on the router earlier today). All three computers on the network are using static IP addresses, so DHCP is disabled on the router. I’m also using ZoneAlarm Free on one of the machines, but this has always been there and everything worked fine until the other day.
I’ve uninstalled the last few windows updates back to around the time the wireless went down, but that had no effect.
This has happened to me before – last time I fixed it by disabling a newly installed DVD-Burner (!), but this time there have been no hardware changes on either of the two wireless computers: the only changes to the best of my knowledge are the audioscrobbler and windows updates.
Curiously, when there’s a problem affecting the wireless internet on one of the two wireless computers, the other *always* has problems too…
I’ve also done a ton of registry repairs and scans and full anti-virus and anti-spyware scans.
I’d really appreciate any suggestions – this is driving me bonkers!
