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[David Schwartz]

To make it short and sweet. My laptop functions perfectly with wireless
networks, like in my home. But when I take it to my office or to a hotel
with Ethernet only and plug the cable in, the laptop sees the connection
(the balloon on the lower right says so) but I cannot open any web pages or
download any mail. In other words, it sees the Ethernet connection but
doesn't know how to use it.

Do I have to disable my wireless settings before the computer can use the
Ethernet?
Can I set it to use both, with Ethernet having priority?

Dave Schwartz

 

[ToddAndMargo]

To make it short and sweet. My laptop functions perfectly with wireless
networks, like in my home. But when I take it to my office or to a hotel
with Ethernet only and plug the cable in, the laptop sees the connection
(the balloon on the lower right says so) but I cannot open any web pages or
download any mail. In other words, it sees the Ethernet connection but
doesn't know how to use it.

Do I have to disable my wireless settings before the computer can use the
Ethernet?
Can I set it to use both, with Ethernet having priority?

Dave Schwartz

You can have both running.

Sounds to me like your firewall is blocking your Ethernet.

Try running in safe mode with networking and see
if it works. Get on and get off, so you don't get infected.
And, don't test it with IE and no firewall/anti virus running.
A much safer choice for your test would be Firefox:

http://www.mozilla.com

Other than that, I am out of ideas.

HTH,
-T

 

[pcbutts1 [MS MVP]]

Set your home page to About:Blank that way when you launch your browser it
will be redirected to the hotels webpage where you are then asked to accept
their TOS and sign in.

 

[ToddAndMargo]

Hotels really, really stink. I have worked
for hotels before and they are so, so cheap that
it is a wonder anything works, ever.
They will not spend an extra dime on anything,
especially computer hardware!

If you use hotels a lot, the better to go is to get
a Clearwire's PC card for your laptop. If no Clearwire
where you go, get a cell phone data service (more
expensive and slower than Clearwire).

My 2 cents,
-T

 

[R. McCarty]

Likely the NIC has TCP/IP settings configured manually, instead of by
DHCP. If the balloon acknowledges a connection but no data traffic is
occurring then either the Gateway or DNS server information is wrong.
In Hotels it's not uncommon for there to be a limited number of PCs
that can connect. Once that limit is reached, you'll see the connection
be established but cannot browse the web or access any external sites.
Usually it's because the pool of available DHCP assigned address has
been exhausted or the lease period is set to an excessive length of time.

 

[PA Bear [MS MVP]]

Always reply to your original thread, please, David.

cf.
http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general/browse_frm/thread/272bcf85eafe3af6

Lem makes some very valid points.

 

[David Schwartz]

I shouldn't have mentioned the hotel. That seems to be throwing everyone
off. How about in my office. It is a small dental practice with 4
computers networked with cable. I plugged the laptop directly into the
cable modem and it recognized it but didn't connect.
Dave again

 

[David Schwartz]

I shouldn't have mentioned the hotel. That seems to be throwing everyone
off. How about in my office. It is a small dental practice with 4
computers networked with cable. I plugged the laptop directly into the
cable modem and it recognized it but didn't connect.
Dave again

 

[David Schwartz]

I shouldn't have mentioned the hotel. That seems to be throwing everyone
off. How about in my office. It is a small dental practice with 4
computers networked with cable. I plugged the laptop directly into the
cable modem and it recognized it but didn't connect.
Dave again

 

[David Schwartz]

I shouldn't have mentioned the hotel. That seems to be throwing everyone
off. How about in my office. It is a small dental practice with 4
computers networked with cable. I plugged the laptop directly into the
cable modem and it recognized it but didn't connect.
Dave again

 

[David Schwartz]

I shouldn't have mentioned the hotel. That seems to be throwing everyone
off. How about in my office. It is a small dental practice with 4
computers networked with cable. I plugged the laptop directly into the
cable modem and it recognized it but didn't connect.
Dave again

 

[teldave]

Always reply to your original thread, please, David.

cf.http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general/bro....

Lem makes some very valid points.
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002
AumHa VSOP & Adminhttp://aumha.net
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Try

Double click the connection icon--select properties--select TCP/IP--
click properties and make sure there are ticks is in Obtain IP
automatically and Obtain DNS automatically. May need a reboot if
changes are made.

Hope it helps

 

[db.·.. >]

"keep your friends
close and your enemies
closer"

you know you guys
can now get married
in california and live
like true couples.

 

[pcbutts1 [MS MVP]]

I'm female and straight. But he can go there with his blow up doll.

 

[Gurney]

To make it short and sweet. My laptop functions perfectly with wireless
networks, like in my home. But when I take it to my office or to a hotel
with Ethernet only and plug the cable in, the laptop sees the connection
(the balloon on the lower right says so) but I cannot open any web pages or
download any mail. In other words, it sees the Ethernet connection but
doesn't know how to use it.

Do I have to disable my wireless settings before the computer can use the
Ethernet?
Can I set it to use both, with Ethernet having priority?

Dave Schwartz

Why ask HERE? What does this have to do with the OS? NOTHING.

Ask elsewhere

 

[David Schwartz]

Drop dead

Why ask HERE? What does this have to do with the OS? NOTHING.

Ask elsewhere

 

[db.·.. >]

perhaps so, my friend
butt nobody really cares
except yourselves.

sort of like that old
startrek episode whereas
one guy had the right
half of his face black
and the left side was
white.

then his nemesis/bounty
hunter that travelled the
universe in search of
that guy was himself born
with the right half
of his face white and the
leftside black.

at the end of the show
it was best to let them
fight it out on their dead
planet. the guys did not
care if they were the sole
survivors of their species.

probably wouldn't matter
unless one of the guys
could give birth anyways.

so is your face white n black
or black n white. the only
ones who would otherwise
care are yourselves...

 

[Gurney]

Drop dead

Request denied. Oh, and the replies go down here, top poster.

 

[Etal]

To make it short and sweet. My laptop functions perfectly with wireless
networks, like in my home. But when I take it to my office or to a hotel
with Ethernet only and plug the cable in, the laptop sees the connection
(the balloon on the lower right says so) but I cannot open any web pages or
download any mail. In other words, it sees the Ethernet connection but
doesn't know how to use it.

Do I have to disable my wireless settings before the computer can use the
Ethernet?
Can I set it to use both, with Ethernet having priority?

Both the wired and the wireless connection are supposedly
Ethernet. You should be able to assign priority for the different
connections under:

Control Panel : Network Connections (Rightclick and open) :
Advanced(WindowMenu) : Advanced Settings ... : Adapters and
Bindings : Connections : [ArrowUp]or[ArrowDown]

 

[Etal]

To make it short and sweet. My laptop functions perfectly with
wireless networks, like in my home. But when I take it to my office
or to a hotel with Ethernet only and plug the cable in, the laptop
sees the connection (the balloon on the lower right says so) but I
cannot open any web pages or download any mail. In other words, it
sees the Ethernet connection but doesn't know how to use it.

Do I have to disable my wireless settings before the computer can use
the Ethernet?
Can I set it to use both, with Ethernet having priority?

Both the wired and the wireless connection are supposedly Ethernet. You
should be able to assign priority for the different connections under:

Control Panel : Network Connections (Rightclick and open) :
Advanced(WindowMenu) : Advanced Settings ... : Adapters and Bindings :
Connections : [ArrowUp]or[ArrowDown]

However, that will of course cause WinXP try to talk through the
wired adapter also when it is unconnected and you want to use the
wireless NIC. So, IMO, the best solution for what you want to do
to simply disable the adapters you don't (want to) use. See the
status-column in the Network Connections' Control Panel applet,
and use the file-menu to en-/disable.