Limited or no connectivity @ school

[Guest]

I have a similar connection issue.

Just moved into a new town house shared by 4 other people, all but one of
which have laptops. I was given a security code to access the secure wifi
network. All seems to go smoothly until it attempted to rectrieve an IP
address. That was the first time I noticed the 'Limited or no connectivity'
status message. I've browsed through the comments and suggestions made here,
but my situation is a little different. Hope you can suggest something.

I'm pretty good with this stuff normally, work in IT and all that. The other
guys/girls in the house know less than me re:wifi configs, but they managed
to connect first time, hastle free with the security code given to them by
the property manager. I've tried several times over the last weeks days since
moving in with limited success. I'm on XP SP2. First thing it tested was to
take down my personal firewalls. No effect. I would find it hard to beleive
that I'm being rufused on the grounds that the network is configured not to
accept IP requests from unknown users. Everyone would have had the same
problem otherwise. I seem to be connected to the router, but can't establish
an external connection with the internet. It always seems to time out and I
see the same local APIPA address. Where does the DHCP service reside, on the
router or the local telco switch? Like I said i'm not that familiar with wifi
nitty gritty. I'll talk with my property manager again but I think he knows
less than I do.

Any suggestions would be very much appeciated.

 

[Chuck]

I have a similar connection issue.

Just moved into a new town house shared by 4 other people, all but one of
which have laptops. I was given a security code to access the secure wifi
network. All seems to go smoothly until it attempted to rectrieve an IP
address. That was the first time I noticed the 'Limited or no connectivity'
status message. I've browsed through the comments and suggestions made here,
but my situation is a little different. Hope you can suggest something.

I'm pretty good with this stuff normally, work in IT and all that. The other
guys/girls in the house know less than me re:wifi configs, but they managed
to connect first time, hastle free with the security code given to them by
the property manager. I've tried several times over the last weeks days since
moving in with limited success. I'm on XP SP2. First thing it tested was to
take down my personal firewalls. No effect. I would find it hard to beleive
that I'm being rufused on the grounds that the network is configured not to
accept IP requests from unknown users. Everyone would have had the same
problem otherwise. I seem to be connected to the router, but can't establish
an external connection with the internet. It always seems to time out and I
see the same local APIPA address. Where does the DHCP service reside, on the
router or the local telco switch? Like I said i'm not that familiar with wifi
nitty gritty. I'll talk with my property manager again but I think he knows
less than I do.

Any suggestions would be very much appeciated.

To start, why not start a new thread, with unique and descriptive subject. This
thread is pretty old, and not too many folks will still be watching it. Solve
one problem in one thread.
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