Dear All,
Bit of a novice, so please excuse any silly questions or misunderstandings. I am having a problem accessing the internet using a cable modem (NTL) and a wireless router. Two PCs are currently set-up to use this connection using the same type of wireless LAN card (Ralink). They both used to work fine, both receiving IP addresses from the DHCP. But now, one of them, despite loads of input from 3 computer experts (2 professionals) simply will not connect to the internet. Initially this seemed to be a network problem. I was getting 'limited or no connectivity' error messages. Somehow (I have actually reinstalled windows XP in the process) this has been resolved and my computer now sees the network and has very good connectivity. However, despite the same physical address, wep key, SSID etc etc as the other computer, it simply will not connect to the internet. As it wasn't receiving an IP from the DHCP (the IP was being automatically asigned as 169.xxx.xx...) the IP, gateway etc have now been input manually and set to static. Still no luck! The IP on the router is 192.168.11.1, on the working computer it is 192.168.11.2 and on mine it is 192.168.11.3
One of the technicians tried an alternative USB lan card which also did not work.
Since the reinstall, windows xp is also a lot slower and media player doesn't play files properly despite being rolled back to the previous version.
Could anyone come up with any sensible suggestions? I am pretty desperate. This has been going on for about 5 weeks. Has cost me too much and I can't even listen to any bloody music now!
Thanks for wading through all that
Tom