Irregulars Question

[Max Battcher]

Nick Arnett wrote:
> If it is making a connection to your wireless router, but behaving this way,
> it sounds like a gateway or DNS server address problem... make sure that
> your wireless connection is set to get the gateway address and DNS servers
> via DHCP.  If either of those is wrong, you'd get the symptoms you are
> describing.

I've found that often just right-clicking on the wireless connection 
icon and selecting "Repair" can help you figure out what is wrong (in 
both XP and Vista).  I believe that if either are the above problems are 
the case Repair actually should figure it out and fix things 
automatically...  If it's something more complicated the step that 
Repair fails on can yield a lot of information and potential next steps.

If you are seeing other computers but not internet websites you also may 
want to double/triple check the connection settings in your browser as 
well, particularly for any installed proxy/VPN set up.  Also double 
check all of your installed firewall software (don't forget to check if 
your virus scanner or other third party "security" tool is doing 
firewalling of any sort).

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