Hey guys i just recently bought a NETGEAR wireless usb adapter and when i tried connecting to the internet i got "Limited or no connectivity". My router is just the regular verizon router, i got this pc hooked up on it directly and my laptop works just fine. Now i was able to connect to an unsecured router sooo... Windows IP Configuration Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : zadkopc Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . : Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Unknown IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection: Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Marvell Yukon 88E8056 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-16-E6-84-0B-D7 Ethernet adapter Wireless Network Connection: Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : Description . . . . . . . . . . . : NETGEAR RangeMax(TM) Wireless USB 2. 0 Adapter WPN111 Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-22-3F-9D-D0-8B Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes Autoconfiguration IP Address. . . : 169.254.206.7 Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.0.0 Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 169.254.206.7 I've already tried cycling power and ive tried doing the winsock command. ipconfig/release-renew is done as well and it gives me "cannot contact dhcp server". I tried statiic IP but not very sure if I did it correctly. Help Thanks in advance Zaq A.

did you configure the wireless on the router? what wireless encryption are you using?

Yeah my laptop works fine wireless and so did my old NIC. Im using WEP

what you describe is usually the result of not configuring the wireless encryption to match that of the wireless router. No wireless access due to mismatch results in no ip address.

Wanderer, You were almost right, apparently the software that comes with the usb adapter has more to it than what i was using, thanks for your help