Coffee house internet

[Howard Brazee]

When we take my wife's laptop computer to a local coffee house, we
connect just like everybody else in the shop, with 11.0 mps, signal
strength excellent, & status connected.

But starting I.E. Weatherbug, Firefox, MSN Messanger, Outlook, or
connecting to Earthlink all fail.

Asking around, everybody else just connect and then run their
applications.

She normally connects through my home LAN.

What else should I try next week?

(I've found lots of pages that talk about connectivity - but haven't
seen anything that addresses this particular step).

 

[Shenan Stanley]

When we take my wife's laptop computer to a local coffee house, we
connect just like everybody else in the shop, with 11.0 mps, signal
strength excellent, & status connected.

But starting I.E. Weatherbug, Firefox, MSN Messanger, Outlook, or
connecting to Earthlink all fail.

Asking around, everybody else just connect and then run their
applications.

She normally connects through my home LAN.

What else should I try next week?

(I've found lots of pages that talk about connectivity - but haven't
seen anything that addresses this particular step).

Make sure you do not have anything "static" in the network connections.
That means DNS, WINS, etc.
Also - ask the proprietor of the coffee shop - they know their own network.

 

[Guest]

Perhaps try turning off each application one at a time to see if one of the
apps is causing the problem. I suspect WeatherBug. I have multiple users here
in Buffalo that took the liberty of installing it on their P.C.'s. Had some
issues with it.

 

[Guest]

Oh boy. Sorry. Read that totally wrong. Yes. Suspect network settings are
incorrect.

 

[Kerry Brown]

When we take my wife's laptop computer to a local coffee house, we
connect just like everybody else in the shop, with 11.0 mps, signal
strength excellent, & status connected.

But starting I.E. Weatherbug, Firefox, MSN Messanger, Outlook, or
connecting to Earthlink all fail.

Asking around, everybody else just connect and then run their
applications.

She normally connects through my home LAN.

What else should I try next week?

(I've found lots of pages that talk about connectivity - but haven't
seen anything that addresses this particular step).

If you have a 3rdparty firewall like Zonealarm or Norton Internet Security
etc. you may have to tell the firewall to allow traffic for that subnet.

Kerry

 

[Howard Brazee]

How To Ask Questions The Smart Way

So what did I do wrong here?

 

[Mistoffolees]

So what did I do wrong here?

Most coffee houses using dynamic IP addressing. In the applet
for the wireless connection, under TCP/IP properties, check
the box for "Obtain an IP address automatically".

 

[Howard Brazee]

Most coffee houses using dynamic IP addressing. In the applet
for the wireless connection, under TCP/IP properties, check
the box for "Obtain an IP address automatically".

I did check that. IP address was checked that way, the other address
was hard coded, and I changed them both to check automatically.

Every once in a while my home LAN doesn't work and I have to hard code
IP addresses, I don't know why. Occasionally switching back and
forth keeps me connected to my provider. But that's using cables, a
router, and a DSL modem.

 

[Shenan Stanley]

How To Ask Questions The Smart Way

So what did I do wrong here?

It's a signature - you did nothing wrong with your post that I saw.

Did you check into what I pointed out?

 

[Howard Brazee]

It's a signature - you did nothing wrong with your post that I saw.

Did you check into what I pointed out?

Not yet, I printed your message but haven't had a chance to check it
yet.

 

[Howard Brazee]

Not yet, I printed your message but haven't had a chance to check it
yet.

A PC person at work told me that my problem is that I need to find out
how to clone my mac address. I have a wireless router at home,
although I use the cables. To keep hackers out, I set a strong
security for the wireless. I'll see if I have a disk from my router
that might have this utility.

 

[Shenan Stanley]

A PC person at work told me that my problem is that I need to find
out how to clone my mac address. I have a wireless router at home,
although I use the cables. To keep hackers out, I set a strong
security for the wireless. I'll see if I have a disk from my router
that might have this utility.

You need to find out how to clone your MAC address? hahaha
No - no you don't.

If that laptop has connected at home - that is fine. You will have that
listed in your wireless connections and when you connected the first time
via wireless you had to enter that password. You could set it to remember
that passsword with ease. If the wireless works at home - it will work
anywhere else.. And it will NOT break your home connection.

Essentially wireless has "profiles" - because of the nature of the beast.
You may connect to more than one wireless system without changing your
setup - except for adding another "profile". There are some wireless cards
that come with "better" profile managers - like Intel wireless adapters for
example.. Netgear is another. If you use one of those and use their
connection managers - you simply go into there and have it find and allow it
to connect to the new network.. Otherwise youare likely using the Windows
wireless connection manager - in which case it should find the new network
and you can connect to it inside the Windows Wireless connection manager.

 

[Howard Brazee]

Make sure you do not have anything "static" in the network connections.
That means DNS, WINS, etc.
Also - ask the proprietor of the coffee shop - they know their own network.

Nothing stood out.

My network bridge has enable IEE8021.X authentication. I tried to
look at some of the advanced settings, but when it told me this would
change things, I backed out.

At home, it can see my secured network, but she goes through the cable
instead. At coffee houses, it can see unsecured network, and
connect to it, but not see the WWW the way everybody else does.