Keith (Southend) wrote:
I'm afraid this is completely off-topic, but I'm running out of ideas.
Not had a response from alt.internet.wireless.

Hello Keith,

I haven't used Wi-Fi before, so I'm approaching the subject from a wired
hub. A few suggestions:

As your wireless access point assigned an IP address to your laptop
through DHCP?

Is the access point in the centre of the network and your laptop in line
of sight?

Make sure that WEP keys and levels are the same on your computer and the
access point.

HTH

Joe
Wolverhampton



I recently bought an Acer Notebook to use when I'm working away and on
holiday. One of the main considerations was to have a number of Internet
connecting options, eg: LAN, 56k modem, blue-tooth, wi-fi.

1. I have successfully added it to my adsl router port 4 and been able
to do all the windows updates etc and surfed the net etc.
2. My second option is wi-fi. Now I've tried to connect to my Linksys
Wireless-G Access Point and all appeared fine at first ,saying excellent
connection 54.0Bps. Yet I am not recieving anything through it, no web
sites.



I tried turning the firewall off, which made no difference. I
currently have it unencrypted. My daughter laptop works fine with it,
she does have a Linksys PCAI.. card fitted.
Any ideas what I'm doing wrong, or what I may have overlooked.

My final option, which I haven't got all the bits for yet, is GPRS
through a mobile phone, I'll tackle that obstical when I've got over
this one g

Many thanks