Network setup gone awery

[Bob Newman]

I have wireless cable connection for my laptop and have been trying to set
up a wireless network with my laptop & desktop after running the network
connection wizard on my laptop it told me I had to reboot. Since then when
I try & get on the web a box is coming up trying to log me on with a dialup
connection (my cell phone) which is not attached to the computer. Somehow
the computer thinks the dialup is primary and I can't get it to use the
wireless cable modem. One interesting fact, the desktop logs onto
newsgroups okay (OE6) but the laptop does not (also using OE6). Help
please!

Bob

 

[Guest]

Hi Bob,

To make sure your computer is trying to use the proper connection you need
to go into Control Panel > Internet Options > Connections Tab > and select
never dial a connection. That way windows will only try to access the
internet via your wireless LAN connection. Also you need to make sure that
you are not set up to use a proxy. Go into LAN Settings on the Connections
Tab and make sure its set up to automatically detect proxy settings. One
more thing is that you should go into Control Panel > Network Connections and
make sure your wireless connection is not disabled if it is then right click
it and click enable. You must join to the wireless area Network to access
the internet so double click the wireless Icon in your task bar bottom right
and connect to whatever your networks name is.

Joe
Kemco

 

[Bob Newman]

For some reason the internet on the desktop started working today, the
laptop is still looking for a dial-up connection (when I look at the
connection for the wireless internet it says that It is connected and
working fine but Outlook, IE6, and OE6 aren't looking for it).

Bob