Wireless Connection Good, but no Internet Connection

Question

All of a sudden, I am no longer able to get on the web. My 'Wireless Network Connection' screen allows me to connect/disconnect; and I can reliably connect with a good signal at 54 Mbps. However, when I open Internet Explorer, I get 'The page cannot be displayed.' If I try to check for McAfee updates, it says it is unable to connect to the Internet .   This started about two weeks ago and I have messed around with it when I had time. I thought it would resolve itself after a couple hours, like these situations seem to do. One interesting thing is that I have connected twice after letting it sit for a day or so, so I think it is fixed and when I come back a short while later...same problem. I bridged my connection one other time, which got it working for a short period and then back to the same thing. I know enough to be dangerous, but I really didn't know what I was doing with the bridge other than grasping at straws.   If I connect it straight to the modem, no problem. I bought a different wireless router...same deal, connects but no internet access.

jcklein22 · Answer

By the way, if I run ipconfig:   Windows IP Configuration Host Name ... HomeLaptop Primary Dns Suffix ... Node Type ... Broadcast IP Routing Enabled ... No WINS Proxy Enabled ... No   Ethernet Adapter Local Area Connection Media State ... Media Disconnected Description ... Broadcom 440x 10/100 Integrated Cont roller Physical Address ... 00-11-43-**-**-**   Ethernet Adapter Wireless Network Connection 2 Connection-specific DNS Suffix ... Description ... Intel(R) PRO-Wireless 2915ABG Network Connection Physical Address ... 00-0E-35-**-**-** Dhcp Enabled ... Yes Autoconfiguration Enabled ... Yes IP Address ... 192.***.*.*** Subnet Mask ... 255.***.***.* Default Gateway ... 192.***.*.* DHCP Server ... 192.***.*.* DNS Server ... 192.***.*.*

jcklein22 · Answer

In the icon tray on the lower right of my main screen, when I hover over one icon it says to supported wireless adapters in the system.   Do I need to uninstall/reinstall the adapter?   Any help would be appreciated.

volcano11 · Answer

Yes, as a troubleshooting step I would suggest that you download the latest drivers from the Intel web site, then uninstall the wireless adapter, reboot, and install the drivers that you downloaded.

Steve

Suzanne00 · Answer

I am having the same problem with an Inspiron 6000 that I opened yesterday. I have an excellent wireless connection, but any web page takes forever to load, if at all. The weird thing is that if I plug in the A/C power supply, I can connect just fine, but not on just battery power. Anybody ever see this problem?

ralarosa · Answer

I too am having problems with my Inspiron 6000.  I have a D-Link 624 wireless router.  For two months, my wireless connection worked perfectly.  Now, if I set it to obtain an IP address automatically, it will connect but it will have little or no connectivity (signal strength isn't an issue).  It is obtaining a bad IP address.  If I set the IP address, it connects to the network, but I cannot connect to the internet.  If I connect with a CAT-5 cable, no problem.  I zip along at about 4.8 Mbps. (by the way, I am also having the same problems with my company supplied Latitude.)

shem007 · Answer

I am having the same issue with my 600m.  I am at my wits end with this problem trying just about everything imaginable.  It came with the Intel 2200bg card and I was using it with a Linksys WRT54g which apparently is a bad combo, so I bought the Broadcom 1450 and installed that.  That seemed to work for about a week, but then the problem returned.  I just formatted and reinstalled Windows, and that seemed to help for about a day.  I have tried every setting there is to try with no luck.  The strange thing is that when I first started to use the laptap, it worked great for about a month and then out of nowhere this started happening.  And ralarosa, it is not obtaining a 'bad' IP address, rather, it is not obtaining any IP address and is being assigned the 'automatic private ip address' which starts like 169.254.x.x

ralarosa · Answer

Elsewhere on this forum, I saw similar problems.  The suggestion was to update the driver if you have the Dell wireless card. It worked!.  What I meant by a bad IP address is an address that is not within my network range.  I probably should have used the term 'invalid'.

shem007 · Answer

Thanks for the reply, I have updated the driver, in fact, I formatted the whole thing and reinstalled everything with the latest drivers with no success.

panthur · Answer

For that particular problem you should adjust the Power Save Polling in your card properties. Look here for some solutions: http://jkontherun.blogs.com/jkontherun/2005/08/intel_proset_22.html#comment-9057627

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