Can connect to Home Wireless but nowhere else

SOMERPORT

Hi
My laptop connects okay to my home wireless. When I am out I cannot access any other wireless set ups, McDonalds etc, message says No Connection to internet, yet wireless connection says good.

Any ideas ?

stevemcol

So it goes through the connection process. ie you see the relevent network in the list and connect to it with no prolems?

tronator

SOMERPORT wrote: »

Hi
My laptop connects okay to my home wireless. When I am out I cannot access any other wireless set ups, McDonalds etc, message says No Connection to internet, yet wireless connection says good.

Any ideas ?

Did you manually assign an IP and/or DNS to the wireless adapter? It should be set to automatically via DHCP to work everywhere. Otherwise you would need to change it every time.

SOMERPORT

stevemcol wrote: »

So it goes through the connection process. ie you see the relevent network in the list and connect to it with no prolems?

Hi
Thanks,yes, it connects as normal but says internet is disabled

SOMERPORT

tronator wrote: »

Did you manually assign an IP and/or DNS to the wireless adapter? It should be set to automatically via DHCP to work everywhere. Otherwise you would need to change it every time.

Thanks
how do I set it up automatically via DHCP ?

tronator

SOMERPORT wrote: »

Thanks
how do I set it up automatically via DHCP ?

Here's a howto for WinXP. Other Versions might differ slightly.

http://www.wikihow.com/Set-up-DHCP-Network-Settings-on-Windows-XP

MikeSouth

Thanks Tronator, I too was having the same problem. I'll follow the instructions within the link and see if it works as I'm out and about tomorrow and I'll be taking my laptop.

It's hotels wifi that I find trouble connecting to for some reason - McD - okay though