Help with connecting to wireless network

[AdamE]

I'm having trouble getting one of my computers to access the internet
via my wireless network. My first computer connected and accesses the
web no problem. I installed the wireless dongle on my second computer
no problem and it says that it connects with a strong signal. The
problem I have is that for a number of web sites I try to connect via
a browser and it eventually "times out" and says that it can't
connect. The same web sites connect no problem over the wireless on
the other computer. When I ran the XP utility to analyze my
connection it came back as saying that it couldn't connect over http,
https, or ftp and called out ports 80 and two others (135 I think and
another I can't recall) saying I may be blocked via firewall. The
Windows firewall was on but I couldn't turn it off because it was set
via group policy (it was off on the other computer). I disabled the
Windows firewall by:

From the Start menu, select Run, then enter gpedit.msc.
Expand the Computer Configuration folder, then the Administrative
Templates folder.
Expand the Network folder, then the Network Connections folder, then
the Windows Firewall folder.
Select the Standard Profile folder.
Double-click the Windows Firewall: Protect all network connections
option.
Select Disabled, then click OK.
Select the Domain Profile folder.
Double-click the Windows Firewall: Protect all network connections
option.
Select Disabled, then click OK.
Close the Group Policy dialog box.

I confirmed the firewall was disabled but I still have the same
problem. It seems like something is blocking the loading of certain
sites but I can't figure out why - I can load my geocities home page
and msn.com but when I go to my ISP's home page to check mail via the
web it doesn't work, same with many other pages like eBay. Can anyone
help?

Adam

 

[John Wunderlich]

m:

I'm having trouble getting one of my computers to access the
internet via my wireless network. My first computer connected and
accesses the web no problem. I installed the wireless dongle on
my second computer no problem and it says that it connects with a
strong signal. The problem I have is that for a number of web
sites I try to connect via a browser and it eventually "times out"
and says that it can't connect. The same web sites connect no
problem over the wireless on the other computer. When I ran the
XP utility to analyze my connection it came back as saying that it
couldn't connect over http, https, or ftp and called out ports 80
and two others (135 I think and another I can't recall) saying I
may be blocked via firewall. The Windows firewall was on but I
couldn't turn it off because it was set via group policy (it was
off on the other computer). I disabled the Windows firewall by:

From the Start menu, select Run, then enter gpedit.msc.
Expand the Computer Configuration folder, then the Administrative
Templates folder.
Expand the Network folder, then the Network Connections folder,
then the Windows Firewall folder.
Select the Standard Profile folder.
Double-click the Windows Firewall: Protect all network connections
option.
Select Disabled, then click OK.
Select the Domain Profile folder.
Double-click the Windows Firewall: Protect all network connections
option.
Select Disabled, then click OK.
Close the Group Policy dialog box.

I confirmed the firewall was disabled but I still have the same
problem. It seems like something is blocking the loading of
certain sites but I can't figure out why - I can load my geocities
home page and msn.com but when I go to my ISP's home page to check
mail via the web it doesn't work, same with many other pages like
eBay. Can anyone help?

Adam

Web browsers connect to two different types of sites - Open and
Encrypted. It seems that you have no trouble connecting to the open
sites, but cannot connect to the encrypted sites. As usual, this can
be caused by a bunch of things. A couple you can try:

Go to the Control Panel -> Internet Options -> Advanced tab
Near the bottom is a "Security" section. Make sure that the settings
on the computer that doesn't work matches the settings on the computer
that does work.

Sometimes this kind of problem is rooted in the IP stack. Try the free
program "LSPFix" and see if it will repair your problem:
<http://www.cexx.org/lspfix.htm>

HTH,
John