Wireless Access to Internet After Installing Windows Live One Care

[Guest]

For over a year I have been able to access the internet with my laptop via
the ASUS 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Card on my desktop. My desktop connects
through Sprint DSL. OS xp pro. After less than satisfactory upgrade to
xp64bit I reinstalled xp pro (media center) and instead of reinstalling my
Norton internet security decided to go with the new Windows Live OneCare.
Problem: though I can exchange files between shared documents on both
computers I can no longer connect with internet with my laptop. I attempted
to shut off windows firewall on the desktop to see if that was a problem but
no longer have that option as it says, "For your security some settings are
controlled by Group Policy.' What group? I'm the only user and
administrator?" I noticed that under "Advanced" I can change settings to my
"Wireless Network Connection." Right now the following services are checked
as being able to be accessed: DHCP 67, DHCP 68, DNS, UPnP (TCP), and UPnP
(UDP). Should I make a change here? Please advise, it sure would be nice to
connect using my laptop again, for research and upgrades, etc. Thanks, Rick
Daniels

 

[Steven L Umbach]

I am not familiar with Windows Live One Care and exactly where you are
configuring those settings but you do need DNS enabled to access the
internet. Since you can access your other computers fine it would seem that
other networking configuration is probably correct. Make sure that your
computer also is using the correct default gateway which normally would be
your network address xxx.xxx.xxx.1 as in 192.168.1.1 for my network as an
example if you are using an internet router. You can use the command
ipconfig /all to view your current tcp/ip configuration. --- Steve