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Wireless connection with no internet

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by kevin7frg

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I have a Dell M70. It shows that it is connected to my wireless network, yet when I check the ipconfig, it shows a 169..... IP address. I can wire it to the network and it works fine. I have tried to manually put in an IP address, subnet mask, gateway and DNS and it still does not connect to the internet through the wireless. Any ideas???

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by oh smeg

And enter the Routers Security Password/PassPhrase in when prompted. :)

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by jdclyde

how taking the setting out and putting it back in "fixes" this. Just had to do it on my XP system two daze ago. X-(

by oh smeg

Personally I would prefer it not to be that way as I like to know that I have fixed something. Just making it work for now isn't a fix in my books though it is sometimes necessary.

However maybe I'm reading this wrong here but the way I read this it is a new Installation and the WiFi isn't allowing an outside connection. At least that is something easy to fix.

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by jdclyde

I would think the access point could be going bad. They seem to only last about 2 years before burning up the wireless part, especially the Netgears. Done with them and moving back to Linksys for home. Matter of fact, JUST got my new one in yesterday, so I can coil up my cables I have running into a few rooms! B-) (temp solution, so just ran 50 patch cables and threw a carpet over them.)

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by older mycroft

Them's the stuff that legends are made of!! ;)

Speshully when the FireMaster can't figure out how the blaze managed to start in the centre of the now burnt-out shell of what used to be a house! :^0

by jdclyde

When you have a house you can't sell. oops, probably shouldn't even joke about that, huh? :D

Never heard of a cat5 cable setting a fire though. And I guess I actually meant RUG, not carpet. B-)

Wish the xbox360 had built in wifi.

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