Help with Belkin Router

JPA

Hi,
I am in a house sharing NTL 2 meg with 2 other people. I'm connected via a desktop and they have laptops.
One of the laptops is having problems picking up the network while the other one is fine.
The thing is that it's just this network that it's not picking up as it can pick up other peoples networks from time to time.

I have set up port forwarding on the router. I dunno if that makes any difference. It's a Belkin G Wireless Router.

Any ideas on this problem?

Thanks

Gator

Update drivers of the nic card in the laptop..if this fails go to your local hardware...purchase a hammer..on arrival to your house continue to beat the s**t out of your router untill problem is solved....

Im so sick of belkin accessories..I have nothing but problems with them

JPA

Gator wrote:

Update drivers of the nic card in the laptop..if this fails go to your local hardware...purchase a hammer..on arrival to your house continue to beat the s**t out of your router untill problem is solved....

Im so sick of belkin accessories..I have nothing but problems with them

The network worked ok previously but mysteriously stopped working. Do you think driver update would help? It's a dell :rolleyes: laptop by the way.

Gator

Update drivers of the nic card in the laptop..if this fails go to your local hardware...purchase a hammer..on arrival to your house continue to beat the s**t out of your router untill problem is solved....

Im so sick of belkin accessories..I have nothing but problems with them

if laptop is fairly new then router could be source of prob..update firmware..

make sure wzc service is started on laptop

laptop could be out of range...bring it closer to router(silly i know)

make sure the card is compatible ie...router = 802.11.3a and card is 802.11 etc

I hope this gets you somewhere

Gator

Sorry..I dont know why that posted twice

It sounds like the wireles zero config service is not started...

if the laptop is running win xp service pack 2 then right click

my computer and click manage

click services and applications

click services and scroll down to the bottom and you should see wzc

click this and select start and set it to automatic

another thing...if you have two computers that are named the same ie
"johns computer" then you will get a "duplicate name exists on the network" message...one of the comps will not be able to connect to the router...

see how you get on with that

JPA

If it can pick up other networks would this not indicate that the WZC is started? And if it worked fine before.


Sorry. I'm pretty new to networks.

Gator

Ok...

1 - if there is security enabled disable it ie wep etc and disable all firewalls..if it works and stops drop ing the connection then enable the firewall first..encryption second etc....see if it drops it when each one of these is enabled

or....

2 - go to services again and navigate to the make of the card in the laptop
and set the service to disabled..this will let windows software take control
of your connection


By the way...if the make of the card in the laptop is :mad: belkin:mad: and there is zonealarm installed this could be the problem...it will not let you connect even when the firewall is disabled....I know loads of people who refuse to buy belkin as there is a good few problems with 2000 and xp

Gator

Just as a matter of interest..what ports have you forwarded