Wireless Networking

[Ray Vernon]

Dear All,

First, I apologize for the long notice.

I have had this issue for months and it is doing my head
in. I have a notebook running WIN98, and 2 Fujitsu Siemens
computers one running XP Home and the other XP PRO.

I got ADSL over one year ago and my telephone point is
quite a distance from my home office where the PCs are
located so I got a Cisco Aironet(340) access point with a
Cisco PCMCIA wireless card and two Belkin USB wireless
adapters.

The Notebook has worked without flaw for over one year
connecting to the wireless network and the internet but
while both computers can connect to the wireless network
only one would access the internet. A couple months ago
the PC that could not connect to the internet did and the
one that was connected got disconnected, even though both
indicated they found the wireless network. Keep in mind I
was upgrading the OS when I lost connection.

In trying to solve the problem I changed the access point
from Cisco to Eicon 2480 which works well with the
notebook for wireless access and internet but the same
problem exists with the desktops.

Today I changed the Belkin units for Linksys USBs and both
find the network but neither can access the internet. I do
not know what else to do, I have spoken to my service
provider and he sees no problems at his end. The notebook
works well and at least one of the desktops were updated
last week. The Eicon 2480 allows over 200 users and the
DHCP is turned on. Both wireless clients are set to obtain
IP address automatically.

Does anyone have any suggestions what I can try next? I am
desperate for answers and cannot find anyone solution on
Microsoft's XP solution pages.

Please feel free to email me at (e-mail address removed)

 

[Guest]

Try setting one of the client computers to a static IP address in the range 192.168.0.2 to 9 and see what happens. Someone told me about this but I have never actually tried it. Simple, quick, and harmless...