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Wireless connected, but no internet
Name: kiranasa Date: September 13, 2007 at 06:02:06 Pacific OS: XP Home CPU/Ram: athlon/256 Product: Dell laptop 8200
Comment:
Hi
My laptop shows that it has excellent connection from Linksys router, but I can not open any web page. I can use dialup to connect, but wireless doesn't open any page. How do I tell the laptop or firefox or Internet explorer to use wireless?
Name: mountain Date: September 13, 2007 at 06:12:50 Pacific
Reply:
have you right clicked the wireless connection, and run a repair?? have you setup the ssid in the router and laptop?? ssid needs a unique name entered for each computer, and router.
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Response Number 2
Name: StuartS Date: September 13, 2007 at 12:08:36 Pacific
Reply:
You are using wirless to try and connect via dial up? Something wrong there. I dont know of any wireless routers that will handle a dialup connection.
What is the dial-up MODEM plugged into?
Stuart
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Response Number 3
Name: wanderer Date: September 13, 2007 at 13:02:56 Pacific
Reply:
You go into the configuration options and set IE/Firefox to use Lan instead of dialup.
Imagine the power if you knew how to internet search
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Response Number 4
Name: kiranasa Date: September 28, 2007 at 11:19:14 Pacific
Reply:
I just called customer service for Linksys and they walked me through and fixed it.
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