andru Posted September 4, 2003 Share Posted September 4, 2003 (edited) I have a desktop and laptop connected by a wireless adsl/router and a wireless card on the laptop.I also use winxp with SP1 installed.I am using the net on the laptop ok but when i engage the 128bit encryption on the router and then on the wireless card,i can no loger access the internet from the laptop.Even then when i take off the encryption on both i still cannot get to the net.The only way i am able to get back online is to uninstall the network card and then reinstall it.So at the moment all i can do is run without encryption. Please try and give me a few pointers to sort this out. Thanks Edited September 4, 2003 by andru Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Veteran Posted September 4, 2003 Veteran Share Posted September 4, 2003 sounds like you might have a bad driver or something. check for newer drivers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evizu Posted September 4, 2003 Share Posted September 4, 2003 for a start set up some mac filtering... till you can sort encryption. and did you log into the wireless connection with the encryption key? also tried 64 bit? or any other encryption? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andru Posted September 4, 2003 Author Share Posted September 4, 2003 i have just downloaded the latest drivers i set the card to get the key automatically through the setup utility.Also what is MAC filtering? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mAcOdIn Veteran Posted September 5, 2003 Veteran Share Posted September 5, 2003 MAC filtering is pretty sweet. Every network card has an actual physical address(MAC address), think of it as a unique serial number. So what you do is find out your wireless network cards MAC address and log onto your routers setup page and find the MAC address filtering section and add that to the list. What that does is make it to where no other network card will be able to access that wireless network unless they're MAC address is on that list. A mac address can be cloned though so it's not fool proof by any means but a nice bit of added protection nonetheless. To get your NIC's MAC address open up the command prompt and type "ipconfig -all" without quotes and press enter. The MAC address is the Physical address and looks like this XX-XX-XX-XX-XX-XX. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andru Posted September 5, 2003 Author Share Posted September 5, 2003 Thanks for that i'll give it a go and hopefully that will work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fred Derf Veteran Posted September 5, 2003 Veteran Share Posted September 5, 2003 Thanks for that i'll give it a go and hopefully that will work That's a temporary fix at best. You still have fundamental problems. Removing encryption reduces the bandwidth demands and may be reducing the timeouts. You should still figure out why you have a weak connection. I have found that the computer and/or monitor puts out RF interferance that can weaken the wireless signal. If you have a wireless router with some LAN ports for a wired network then I would suggest you move the router 10 feet away from your computer and plug it into a separate electrical socket. If you have dipole antennas you may need to play with them to improve your signal. Remember that most wireless network are designed to work horizontally with a 360 degree arc but usually only have a 30 degree vertical spread. If you have one wireless computer directly above (on another floor) the router they sometimes don't see each other that well unless you play with the antennas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BGM Posted September 5, 2003 Share Posted September 5, 2003 are u using dlink stuff ?? i had this problem if i used the software / drivers provided in the box, but now i just use windows interface with a set of drivers off the windows update site, and encryptions owrks a treat I am using a DI-614+ & DWL-650+ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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