Wifi network address problem/ question

[AppleCrumbDlite]

I'm at my parents house now. Brought my laptop to use whenever because I'm here for a week. I know how to set up wifi normally, i've done it quite a few times. But this time I click on the appropriate wifi name, then enter the wep. It accepts it, then gets stuck on acquiring netowrk adress for a minute or so then tells me limited or no connectivity. But I have full signal strength. And when I pit the cursor over it says the signal strength is excellent but could not acquire a network address. Does anyone know what's going on or how I could go about connecting it? I powered the modem and router down and that didn't work.

(I'm on my phone now if you're wondering )

[Sussudio]

you could try changing the wireless channel in the router's control panel. i've encountered this problem before and this sometimes solves it. do you know your user login/password? if so go into the control panel via your internet browser (generally accessed by typing in 192.168.11.1 in the address bar but this sometimes varies) and find the section for the wifi channel. 1, 6, and 11 are the best ones to broadcast off of, so if it is currently set to one of those change it to another, or if it is set to auto try changing it to 6, then try 1, then 11.

let me know if this needs further clarifying or if it works or not, good luck!

[JasonR]

I would remove it from your preferred wireless networks then try to reconnect. This is usually caused by a change in the security settings.

[AppleCrumbDlite]

Originally Posted by JasonR

I would remove it from your preferred wireless networks then try to reconnect. This is usually caused by a change in the security settings.

that didn't work foe me :/

[JasonR]

Originally Posted by AppleCrumbDlite

that didn't work foe me :/

Are you running Vista? I had to upgrade an older Linksys router's firmware for it to connect with Vista.

[AppleCrumbDlite]

Originally Posted by JasonR

Are you running Vista? I had to upgrade an older Linksys router's firmware for it to connect with Vista.

Nope. Good old xp

I think going to that site will work for me. I'll just have to dig through some stuff here and find an Ethernet cable tomorrow

[aramis109]

One possibility is that they're running MAC address filtering and your MAC isn't in the list. It'll allow you to connect but won't go anywhere. I'd also do the normal ipconfig /release and /renew to make sure it's grabbing it's own IP address. It may be grabbing the same one as another computer on the network, which'll cause it to show the limited or no connectivity bit.

[AppleCrumbDlite]

It needs to be hard wired into the router for that. I'll have to look for an Ethernet cable tomorrow