Wireless Network Connecion Active but no Internet.....

[Henry]

Hello,

I have a wireless network at home using a D-Link router and adapter.
The computer that uses the wireless adapter has problerms getting an
Interent connection. On boot up, I see that my Wireless Network
Connection is active and I have a strong signal. When I view my
Wireless networks, it says it is connected. But when I open up a
browser window, I get a "page not found" error.

I can fix this error by disconnecting from the wireless network and
then reconnecting. After I do this, I have internet access and
everything is fine.

Does anyone have any ideas as to what the problem could be? Why do I
have to disconnect and reconnect?

Thanks in advance
H

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

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Hello,

I have a wireless network at home using a D-Link router and adapter.
The computer that uses the wireless adapter has problerms getting an
Interent connection. On boot up, I see that my Wireless Network
Connection is active and I have a strong signal. When I view my
Wireless networks, it says it is connected. But when I open up a
browser window, I get a "page not found" error.

I can fix this error by disconnecting from the wireless network and
then reconnecting. After I do this, I have internet access and
everything is fine.

Does anyone have any ideas as to what the problem could be? Why do I
have to disconnect and reconnect?

Thanks in advance
H

When you boot up and have this problem, go to a command prompt and type
'ipconfig /all' without the quotes. Do you have a valid IP address on that
network? Can you ping the default gateway (the router's LAN IP)? Can you
ping your DNS server IP? Can you ping www.google.com?

If your DNS server IP is the same as your default gateway, you might change
the D-Link's DHCP config to hand out the ISP's DNS server IPs, rather than
its own. This tends to work better.