No internet connection

Leopard

espresso wrote: »

Well that indeed needs to be established. Surely fault finding connecting to your own router is the first step though. If connection at home can't be achieved, then there is no point trying to connect while at Starbucks etc.

I do understand your reasoning, espresso - but my point was pertinent to it!

As to my broader speculation, I am minded to regard the fact that there was no rebuttal to it as being significant... :cool:

Merlin_Magii

As a periodic visitor to this normally well moderated forum, I am impressed with the patience, good nature, knowledge base (usually) and willingness of people to give their time to assist perfect strangers with their problems. Sometimes it seems that the most vociferous are responding because they are fanatics of one piece of software or another or just are on a huge ego trip. In the vast majority of occasions the answers are insightful, knowledgeable, empathic and hugely helpful. These people I salute respectfully.

It puzzles me therefore why Leopard is behaving like Pterodactyl with psiticosis? Is this personal vendetta against Flossy_Splodge REALLY necessary? Does it do any credit to himself or the spirit of this excellent site? I think NOT !!! Get yourself a good night's sleep laddie and deal with your attitude - THEN try to help this lady understand the complexities of her problem. After all ..... I doubt you were born with your expertise (?) but garnered it over time from people willing to patiently hold your hand whilst you learned to potty.

Leopard

Merlin_Magii wrote: »

As a periodic visitor to this normally well moderated forum, I am impressed with the patience, good nature, knowledge base (usually) and willingness of people to give their time to assist perfect strangers with their problems. Sometimes it seems that the most vociferous are responding because they are fanatics of one piece of software or another or just are on a huge ego trip. In the vast majority of occasions the answers are insightful, knowledgeable, empathic and hugely helpful. These people I salute respectfully.

It puzzles me therefore why Leopard is behaving like Pterodactyl with psiticosis? Is this personal vendetta against Flossy_Splodge REALLY necessary? Does it do any credit to himself or the spirit of this excellent site? I think NOT !!! Get yourself a good night's sleep laddie and deal with your attitude - THEN try to help this lady understand the complexities of her problem. After all ..... I doubt you were born with your expertise (?) but garnered it over time from people willing to patiently hold your hand whilst you learned to potty.

So, what have you done, yourself, to "try to help this lady (sic) understand the complexities of her problem"?

Nothing whatsoever.

For all your supercilious directions to others, you have not offered her a single word of assistance with it yourself. And you, after all, are the one who boasts of his aptitude with "a hundred PC's" (sic).

Whereas, I use only Macs.

Nevertheless, in over a thousand postings I have sought assistance on MSE, myself, on less than half a dozen occasions and some 800 people here have found 600 of my own submissions sufficiently valuable to be worthy of a "Thanks".

You, on the other hand, have been acknowledged only three times for your six self-confessedly humble contributions - two of which, interestingly, have championed the cause of flossy_splodge. (Remarkable coincidence, that :rolleyes: . Not least because the previous occasion occurred in a thread that was devoid of any participation by me.)

I don't think I need you to bring your wealth of inexperience to bear upon the cause of urging me to "deal with (my) attitude" and help people, laddie. If ever you should learn how to spell the word psittacosis you would be better off puzzling over how a bird disease that originated in the Nineteenth Century could possibly infect a prehistoric, winged reptile.

What credit do you do to yourself, "or the spirit of this excellent site", by attempting to be patronising with such illiteracy and ignorance?

I make no apology for declining to assist somebody who has been serially and persistently abusive to me in this sub-forum for quite some time and those who do follow it regularly would appear to have observed the deafeningly silent absence of any rebuttal - prompt or otherwise - that there has been to the speculation that I aired.

The thing that puzzles me is why anyone in their right mind would let their own computers anywhere near this chronically incompetent, offensive and shamelessly demanding woman.

flossy_splodge

scar1 wrote: »

Good advice given above.

These sort of problems are nearly always related to wireless connectivity problems.
As previously suggested you need to make a connection directly into your router with a ethernet cable. (Ensure you have powered off of disabled your wireless card in laptop).

Once you have done that verify if you have a good consistent internet connection.
Depending on the outcome of this you can move on to testing the wireless connection......

Cheers

Thanks for this.
Have finally managed to get the laptop connected to my ethenet cable and as you seemed to guess, the connection is fine (well at least so far!).
So does that mean there is a problem with the wireless switch?

flossy_splodge

espresso wrote: »

It is very simple to disconnect the Ethernet cable from your machine and plug it into the machine that has the wireless problem. This will not fix anything just like the hijacktghis log though, just for elimination, to prove to yourself that the problem is in fact just the wireless connection.

As you have stated that there is a BIG increase in the number of BT hubs shown in the vicinity, it's likely that you are simply suffering from interference.

You need to see what wireless channels others are using and change your hub to use one as far away from the others - simple.

You should be able to log into your hub by entering http://[FONT=Verdana, Arial]192.168.1.254 into your browser.[/FONT]

Sorry espresso but this is an area I have never ventured into.
can't follow your guidance just at the mo as my own PC is NOT wireless and I am using the ethernet cable on DD's laptop as suggested to check function.
When I get back onto mine, how do I 'change your hub to use one as far away from the others'.
Am at the end of the line according to BT and have only in the last few months or so managed to get BB and then only from BT as others say I am too far from the exchange.
Is this still at the root of my DD's probs trying to use my BB on her wireless connection when she is home?
Thanks for your patience.

espresso

flossy_splodge wrote: »

Sorry espresso but this is an area I have never ventured into.
can't follow your guidance just at the mo as my own PC is NOT wireless and I am using the ethernet cable on DD's laptop as suggested to check function.
When I get back onto mine, how do I 'change your hub to use one as far away from the others'.
Am at the end of the line according to BT and have only in the last few months or so managed to get BB and then only from BT as others say I am too far from the exchange.
Is this still at the root of my DD's probs trying to use my BB on her wireless connection when she is home?
Thanks for your patience.

If the software that is being used to control the wireless on her PC does not display the channel number, use netstumbler here which will show which channels are being used locally:




You can switch to any of the 13 available channels on your router e.g. if the channels in use locally are 1 and 6, switch yours to 11 or 13.

The wireless problem is nothing to do with being at the end of a long line - your Ethernet connection works fine on the same long line.

Merlin_Magii

Leopard,
You really do have a thoroughly nasty, supercilious and sarcastic way about you. This shows in many of the topics you respond to – not just this one. If you’re so unhappy in your life, why don’t you go offline for a while and seek counselling for your anger problem? “Shooting from the hip” is not clever and your subsequent apologies when tackled, impress nobody.

I have not offered advice on this particular request because it is not my strongpoint and others here such as ‘expresso’ seem to be doing a better job than I can. That does not stop me following the thread with interest in case I can improve my own knowledge from it. Shame you can’t show the same humility! This site is not a competition – it is a place to help others to the best of our ability. I notice that ‘flossy_splodge’ has also had her fair share of thanks for advice she has given so your numbers impress me not one jot. The reference to Pterodactyl was an observation of your dinosaur attitude towards females. You sir, are a bully and I suggest that any lack of response to your nastiness is a reflection of people preferring to stay out of your way, lest they fall foul of your petulance. It’s called “least line of resistance”. Please stop being so abusive – that is not what Martin created the site for. Thank you.

flossy_splodge

espresso wrote: »

If the software that is being used to control the wireless on her PC does not display the channel number, use netstumbler here which will show which channels are being used locally:




You can switch to any of the 13 available channels on your router e.g. if the channels in use locally are 1 and 6, switch yours to 11 or 13.

The wireless problem is nothing to do with being at the end of a long line - your Ethernet connection works fine on the same long line.

Thanks so much for your clear explanation espresso.
Got my hands on laptop finally today and had lost confidence in meantime so called up BT and the guy remoted in and did exactly what you had told me to do.
It was really helpful because if I hadn't already read your advice I would have wondered what on earth he was doing and wouldn't actually be any further forward in my knowledge so I could do it myself next time, but this way I could easily follow and NOW understand (well enough anyway!).
So thanks again.:T