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I'm on a Windows 7 PC, my roommate has a MacBook Pro and I have an Android phone.

My roommate's MacBook as well as my Android phone are able to connect to a new network that has been set up in the house, but my Windows 7 laptop just won't connect. It says "No Internet Connection" when the network is connected and no pages open. I've used the same password to connect and browse with my phone as well as my roommate's MacBook.

What do you think the issue here is?

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So you see the network, and your using wpa tkip or aes psk as the security?

So windows says you can not connect to this network, or it says you connect to wirless and then nothing workings? If this is the case, then yeah seems like your not getting an IP or you didn't get the dns or gateway address

as asked please provide output of ipconfig /all this will tell us if you get the required info from dhcp or not. Its also possible did you setup a static IP on your wireless interface? Again seeing ipconfig /all will tell us that.

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It's an AES key.

I am able to connect. But it says "No internet access" under the network name after being connected when i click on the wireless status thing which shows all the networks.

I did ipconfig /all and it's given me a huge amount of info, what do you want to know specifically

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just post it!

There is NOTHING in there unless your using public IPs -- you can clean it up if you like and hide like domain names, etc.

here is mine - mine is CLEAN because I have cleaned up the non ipv6 stuff that is not used but enabled by default. I have disabled the teredo and tunnels, etc because I have setup a routed /64 for ipv6 on my network and have no use of those. As you notice I have IPv6 up and running -- still nice and clean ipconfig /all output.

C:\Windows\system32>ipconfig /all

Windows IP Configuration

   Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : i5-w7
   Primary Dns Suffix  . . . . . . . : local.lan
   Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Broadcast
   IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
   WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
   DNS Suffix Search List. . . . . . : local.lan

Ethernet adapter Local:

   Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . :
   Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Broadcom NetLink (TM) Gigabit Ethernet
   Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 18-03-73-B1-0D-D3
   DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
   Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
   IPv6 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 2001:470:xx:xx::666(Preferred)
   Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::e0cd:efb8:f50:7e7b%13(Preferred)
   IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.100(Preferred)
   Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
   Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 2001:470:xx:xx::1
									   192.168.1.253
   DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.253
   NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Enabled

I snipped out part of my public ipv6 address.

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... my PC can't connect to the internet so I can't really post it here can I? :p

Would involve moving that file to a USB drive or over the network to another computer etc can't be bothered.

Although ipconfig /release helped. I can connect now, although when the network dropped, I had to do ipconfig /release again

In case I have to do it repeatedly to stay connected I'll ask you guys how to get around that.

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Dude, just POST it in anyway you can. This will help with your problem, unless you don't want our help.

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Although ipconfig /release helped. I can connect now, although when the network dropped, I had to do ipconfig /release again

In case I have to do it repeatedly to stay connected I'll ask you guys how to get around that.

So you ran ipconfig /release.... and then what?

ipconfig /release would drop your IP address... but without rebooting or running ipconfig /renew, you wouldn't get an address so it shouldn't connect without that.

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"Would involve moving that file to a USB drive or over the network to another computer etc can't be bothered."

Yeah -- same feeling I'm getting about helping with your issue. Good luck though ;)

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Nope, don't have anything from McAfee installed.

And I said I couldn't be bothered because I got it to work with the ipconfig command on cmd. Although it still starts to mess up at times and I have to run a ipconfig /release again.

And btw, when I do that, it automatically runs a refresh and connects to the network although it's causing quite a bit of time wasting.

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you can't do a ipconfig /all, copy the text it brings up, put it into a text file, put it on a USB drive, bring it to your other computer, open file, post here? If you can't be bothered, I'm sorry, there's not much we can do.

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can you try ipconfig /flushdns? Just throwing it out there...budman is the network pro, but it's saved me a few times.

Oh, wait...I think he bailed since you won't post your ipconfig /all.

Here's mine. Took 2 seconds to make using snipping tool:

fom0y9.jpg

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Ohhhh we got a bunch of smartasses here don't we!

Read what I said in the following post. I managed to get it working which is why I didn't think it was important to get post ipconfig /all.

lol.

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You only temporarily fixed the problem, as you said "Although ipconfig /release helped. I can connect now, although when the network dropped, I had to do ipconfig /release again"

You did not fix it for good.

If you think it is not important, then we can not help you, plain and simple.

Obviously, we are smarter than you, so don't be an ass. You asked for our help. Like bud, we simply can leave you with your problem and not think a thing of it..

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Because you know a little bit more about networks?

Sure bro.

Obviously, there are many wiser than ones self in a variety of arenas and that doesn't preclude one from being wise against others in alternative arenas. If you were all knowing then you wouldn't have arrived with the question in the first place.

Humility is an important and valuable trait among all, except the fool.

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If your unwilling to post the required data, then we cannot help you. Plain and simple. You require a permanent fix. You only have a partial fix. To get the permanent fix, you need to post what was asked.

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Chirp chirp? No one around, did everyone get that annoyed? Aw come on guys.

Okay, so here's the issue today. ipconfig /release and ipconfig /renew gave mixed results. Did it 2-3 times, then a page loaded once and nothing after that. Had to do the ipconfig /release and /renew again, and then again one page loaded, then nothing.

I went to the router, did a restart. Now things "seem" to be stable. What do you think the problem is? And btw, I'm accessing a Linksys WRT54G router that is connected to a

Cisco DPC3925

that is the one that has the real connection. The LinkSys WRT54G is simply catching the Cisco connection and then broadcasting it again (under a new network name) so that the connection can reach farther.

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You mentioned nothing about a repeater....So now you have a repeater in the mix, what signal strength is near the repeater to the host wireless. You should put the repeater in the full strength zone, not the 1 bar zone of the host wireless. if you put it in the 1 bar zone, the signal to the host is degraded to the repeater and you will have the issues you are seeing as it cannot maintain a connection to the host wireless access point.

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I'm impressed. I haven't seen anyone **** of so many people who are normally willing to help since Andrea Borman was here..

What sc302 said it worth a look. I'd also be inclined to suggest that you should disable IPv6 on the connection. I think that'd explain the /release without /renew.

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What can I say, I got them skillz, lol. :p

The repeater is connected via LAN to the CISCO router, so I don't think that's an issue. Disable IPv6 on the connection, how exactly do I go about doing this?

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