Advent Laptop - AOL wireless problem

ViksB

Just got one of those cheap PC world laptops and trying to connect it to my AOL wireless system.
It finds my network fine with a really strong signal.
It then says it is acquiring network address
it then comes up with an error message
This connection has limited or no connectivity
"This problem has occured because the network did not assing a network address to the computer"
Any ideas???

Thanks

Chippy_Minton

What is the make and model of your router? Disable wireless security and enable Broadcast of SSID on it for the time being. This sort of problem is easier to fix if all security is disabled initially; we can turn on security later.

Having done that, right-click the wireless icon in system tray (if shown there) and click Available Wireless Networks.

albertross_2

have you setup encryption yet, and told your laptop the key?

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.html?p=2471408&postcount=37

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.html?p=2471410&postcount=38

ViksB

The router is Netgear DG834G v3
I have set up the encrytion key and that seems to be ok
I have done the firewall but not sure what you mean about SIDD

albertross_2

the ssid is the name for your routers network, the default is netgear.

If you really are connecting to your router, double check that your PC encryption key matches the one you have set on the router

(I'm assuming that you haven't done anything with mac address filtering, which could also produce the same symptoms).

ViksB

It definitely matches but then says limited or no connectivity

albertross_2

Are you using wep/wpa?

Did you go to 192.168.0.1 to configure it?

How did you tell your PC the password?

posting the results of ipconfig /all >C:\1.txt
notepad c:\1.txt

might help

ViksB

You know I said definitely. Well I meant no!!

Opps and I checked it three times too.

But it works now. Thank you. YIPPEE

Must remember always check it 4 times

Viks
P.S. Already turned my firewall back on!!