limited or no connectivity

mike havens bmike1 at gmail.com
Sun Jun 22 17:55:16 MST 2008


the strong signal is determined from what the icon says it is.... as
for the linksys page I DO NOT REMEMBER HOW TO GET TO IT.... WHAT
ADDRESS DO i TYPE IN.

On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 4:43 PM, koder <hmichels01 at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Mike,
>
> It is not clear what you can and can't get going.
>
> How many of the troubleshooting steps are you able to get through before
> failure?
> You said you can't connect to Linksys from laptop.
> Can you connect to the router from other PCs?
> Can you PING 127.0.0.1?
> If you connect laptop using wired connection can you ping or log onto
> Linksys main page?
> You will have to do that so you can determine what it is set for and
> troubleshoot it if needed.
>
> Does the Linksys have encryption set up, if not why not?
>
> How did you determine you have a strong signal?
>
> Hope that is a start.
>
> Harold
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mike havens <bmike1 at gmail.com>
> Reply-To: Main PLUG discussion list
> <plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
> To: Main PLUG discussion list <plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
> Subject: Re: limited or no connectivity
> Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2008 14:02:51 -0400
>
> Say what? I stuck the disk that came with router in and couldn't find
> anything of note. I guess I'll look again..... or am I chasing my big
> long tail?
>
> On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 5:15 PM, Judd Pickell <pickell at gmail.com> wrote:
>> the DHCP settings in on the front screen of the linksys-g router access.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>> Judd Pickell
>>
>> On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 1:24 PM, mike havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> it is a linksys-g.... I couldn't tell you.... most likely not..... I
>>> looked in the wireless settings to no avail
>>>
>>> On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 4:12 PM, Judd Pickell <pickell at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> If you don't have it DHCP on the connection, then you have to set the
>>>> IP info directly (including DNS info) for your connection. Is your
>>>> router setup to DHCP?
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 12:55 PM, mike havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> sorry for the confusion.... I have limited or no connectivity on the
>>>>> computer away from the wireless router. The signal strength is great!
>>>>> Funny thing is that when I make the wireless wired it still does not work
>>>>>
>>>>> maybe I need to tell it to assign it an ip address? no.....
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 3:23 PM, Judd Pickell <pickell at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> You will need to be more specific on what is not working....
>>>>>> The laptop can't connect to the router?
>>>>>> You can't ping an IP for google?
>>>>>> No computer can use the router?
>>>>>> Can't ping a dns name such as google?
>>>>>> etc..
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Sincerely,
>>>>>> Judd Pickell
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 12:20 PM, mike havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> I hooked a wireless router up to the laptop to send internet to sister
>>>>>>> in Law's laptop. Well, this worked when I was in Phoenix but it isn't
>>>>>>> working here in Florida. Any ideas?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> In Phoenix I was feeding broadband internet from the laptop to the
>>>>>>> tower.... hmmmmmm..... I was doing that over a wire.
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