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Vista laptop connected to wifi but not internet?

  • 03-10-2007 6:01pm
    #1
    Nephew
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,340 ✭✭✭


    Guys, I have a laptop running Vista Ultimate, I've connected it to my Linksys WRT54GS router, typed in passwords etc. It says its connected to the router but I cant connect to the internet through the laptop. It's my first time using Vista and I don't know a great deal about wifi tbh. I'd appreciate any advice.

    Thanks


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  • #2
    Hal1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,720 ✭✭✭Hal1


    Can you ping your gateway, click start > run > type cmd and press enter, then ipconfig you will find your gateway listed there 192.168.x.x. Then type ping 192.168.x.x. If you get no reply its probably got the wrong IP details entered.


  • #3
    Nephew
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,340 ✭✭✭Nephew


    Hal, I did that. It said 4 packets sent, 4 received and 0 lost. I guess thats good?



    When I opened up IE, after it failed to connect I clicked on diagnose problem and I got
    Cannot connect with Primary DNS Server 192.168.1.1
    Network diagnostics pinged the remote host but did not receive a response


  • #4
    irlrobins
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,541 ✭✭✭irlrobins


    Follow FAQ 5 in the sticky and let us know how u get on.


  • #5
    Nephew
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,340 ✭✭✭Nephew


    Thanks irlrobins. I tried the sticky unfortunately it didn't help


  • #6
    irlrobins
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,541 ✭✭✭irlrobins


    Yeah but what happened? Did it fail at any point? If you can give teh results of each step it might pinpoint the problem...


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  • #7
    patpark121
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 161 ✭✭patpark121


    Sounds like your laptop hasn't being reconfigured to the router. You may have to delete the current wifi network if you created one, & follow the setup from scratch again. Or maybe the encryption key was typed in wrong,
    or configured to the wrong SSID?


  • #8
    auggie2k
    Closed Accounts Posts: 311 ✭✭auggie2k


    What's your ISP?


  • #9
    MarkR
    Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators Posts: 11,164 Mod ✭✭✭✭MarkR


    Try entering a dns server.


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