Explorer won't acknowledge internet connection

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The second laptop has a wireless antenna for receiving. The software that
has come with the antenna shows that there is a strong reception but the
Internet Explorer won't acknowledge connection. My laptop works fine in the
same room. Not a range issue.
 
Matt said:
The second laptop has a wireless antenna for receiving. The software that
has come with the antenna shows that there is a strong reception but the
Internet Explorer won't acknowledge connection. My laptop works fine in the
same room. Not a range issue.
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Then "the second laptop" isn't connected.

You have to manually connect "the second laptop" to that connection or
set your system to automatically connect to it on bootup.
 
Matt said:
The second laptop has a wireless antenna for receiving. The software that
has come with the antenna shows that there is a strong reception but the
Internet Explorer won't acknowledge connection. My laptop works fine in the
same room. Not a range issue.
Click to expand...

If you double click Your Wireless Icon on the Notification tray you will see
all available Wireless network one of them your network (SSID), select it and
click connect.
If you can;t see it then click Refresh in the side panel to see more
available network.
If you are using Authentication Key (WEP,WPA) then inter that when you
prompted, did you installed the software came with the wireless adapter?.
Try to ping the Router,say your router is 192.168.1.1 open a command CMD.exe
and type:
C:\>ping 192.16.8.1.1 Hit Enter and see the received packets and lost ones,
if you can establish connection to the router then the Domain name
resolutions not working (DNS).
See also if your computer getting Auto IP address by right clicking your
connection in the Network connection and select properties and then click
TCP/IP and click properties try the settings to configure the IP to automatic.
Open the Run Command and type in:
ipconfig /flushdns Click [OK]
ipconfig /renew or release click [OK]
Reboot your computer and try to establish connection.
HTH.
Let us know.
Regards,
nass
 
Things work now. Thanks to all who replied.

The wireless icon in the Notification tray always showed a connection,
correctly identified the name of the router and said there was a good signal.

The antenna is a Netgear product they encouraged me to NOT do the automatic
windows connection. Once I started allowing the windows auto connect,
everything would work fine....consistently.

Prior to the auto windows connect a bad IP address would show up. A
'repair' would not fix it. It's almost like there was a firewall or
something blocking.

Regardless, I'll continue to let the auto windows connect despite the
Netgear recommendation until I learn there's a problem with allowing this
situation. I had a similar problem with a Linksys antenna years ago.

Thanks again to all.

nass said:
Matt said:
The second laptop has a wireless antenna for receiving. The software that
has come with the antenna shows that there is a strong reception but the
Internet Explorer won't acknowledge connection. My laptop works fine in the
same room. Not a range issue.
Click to expand...

If you double click Your Wireless Icon on the Notification tray you will see
all available Wireless network one of them your network (SSID), select it and
click connect.
If you can;t see it then click Refresh in the side panel to see more
available network.
If you are using Authentication Key (WEP,WPA) then inter that when you
prompted, did you installed the software came with the wireless adapter?.
Try to ping the Router,say your router is 192.168.1.1 open a command CMD.exe
and type:
C:\>ping 192.16.8.1.1 Hit Enter and see the received packets and lost ones,
if you can establish connection to the router then the Domain name
resolutions not working (DNS).
See also if your computer getting Auto IP address by right clicking your
connection in the Network connection and select properties and then click
TCP/IP and click properties try the settings to configure the IP to automatic.
Open the Run Command and type in:
ipconfig /flushdns Click [OK]
ipconfig /renew or release click [OK]
Reboot your computer and try to establish connection.
HTH.
Let us know.
Regards,
nass
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