yesterday, when i left, they were having problems. they decided the router was bad, and replaced it.
today, one of my coworkers came to me complaining it didn't work, but i was having no prob, then another came to me, as the general manager who set up this new router is out.
seems, as viewed on windows 7, they are all accessing the router network, password approved, all that jazz, but the line to the internet has a big ole X on it. windows xp comps show connection with full bars, but if you try to open a web page, no go. try to repair, no new ip address able to be configured.
have tried powercycling devices, computers, and rechecking all connections. desktops, hardlined to the network through the walls, all have internet just fine, and they connect to this same wireless router to get to the modem.
we ended up disabling the higher end belles and whistles after of course finding there was a firmware upgrade online...
nothing was set to be blocked, though i think it was seeing something as a threat or weakness and blocking it. but in the settings, blocks were disabled. (and set to factory default settings)
I know I was having trouble with my new router these past two nights. I had to reconfigure all my computers and then finally figured out that I had to change the firewall settings in McAfee, although why I only had to do that on one of the computers I have no idea.
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yesterday, when i left, they were having problems. they decided the router was bad, and replaced it.
today, one of my coworkers came to me complaining it didn't work, but i was having no prob, then another came to me, as the general manager who set up this new router is out.
seems, as viewed on windows 7, they are all accessing the router network, password approved, all that jazz, but the line to the internet has a big ole X on it. windows xp comps show connection with full bars, but if you try to open a web page, no go. try to repair, no new ip address able to be configured.
have tried powercycling devices, computers, and rechecking all connections.
desktops, hardlined to the network through the walls, all have internet just fine, and they connect to this same wireless router to get to the modem.
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It could be so many things that I'm unable to give any useful advice with that much info. :(
Hell, honestly, WiFi is so twitchy that even if I were there, I might not be able to say. ;)
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Any MAC address filter in place?
Can you trade files between wired and wireless computers?
Is the router set to use DHCP for wireless connections? Have the wireless computers been set to IP dynamically, or is it static?
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Check your wireless settings - are you blocking anything?
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after of course finding there was a firmware upgrade online...
nothing was set to be blocked, though i think it was seeing something as a threat or weakness and blocking it. but in the settings, blocks were disabled. (and set to factory default settings)
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2) no
3) no
4) yes; dynamic
we ended up disabling the higher end belles and whistles
after of course finding there was a firmware upgrade online...
sometimes i hate computers
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