I cannot load a web page althoght the wireless is connected!

[zamolxe]

:confused: I got an Acer laptop 4 months ago. I have a dial-up connection that works just fine. I got a public unsecured wireless connection which was working fine. A week ago I formatted one of the HD and erased all that stuff from Acer. I instaled my own Win XP, upgraded to SP2, I put Zone Alarm and it worked ONE day. Everything worked fine just ONE day.

After a day the wireless just suddenly stopped! I thought maybe Zone Alarm caused the matter. I uninstaled ZA. Nothing. The wireless seems to be connected but I CANNOT connect to internet(Neither IE nor Firefox). The dial-up works fine.

I formatted the disk 4 times. No result. So, 1. The public wireless seems to be connected but I cannot connect to internet (I get the annoying "page cannot be displayed" or "server not found" messages). 2. I tried at my school another wireless connection with password, and this one WORKS. The wireless adaptor is Broadcom 802.11g. I updated the driver. The WIN firewall si OFF. Norton firewall is off. No result. No response for "ping www.google.com, or www.yahoo.com or anything else. No spyware found. And it is connected, I got the icon, without being able to load an internet page! It is so frustrating. I do not know what to do. Could somebody help me? Thanks.

[Greenstead]

You seem to have a lot of firewall systems which are most likely to be the cause. NIS is a pig to configure, and ZA is only slightly easier. Best to uninstall both and delete them from Program Files. You don't really need them if you have XP SP2's firewall on and you run up-to-date AV and anti-spyware. If you AV is bundled in with NIS then you could get free AVG instead.

[zamolxe]

Thanks a lot. The problem is I do not have ANY firewall at all now. I formatted the disk and installed everything from zero. But no improvement. The wireless is connected but I can't load any page. Very pain in the neck.

[Mike1124]

I am having a similar problem.

I recently got a new desktop and decided to convert my old desktop from ethernet connection to wireless. Once I installed the wirelss, I got a wireless connection but cannot access the internet...not only with the wireless but also with the ethernet connection... which worked fine before setting up the wireless adaptor. I also get an error message from my virus program saying it cannot monitor email because there is a configuration problem.

I have uninstalled and resinstalled the wireless and ethernet adapters several times.

[d_brokenhearted]

Check first if you have a network bridge and make sure that the wireless network connection is not part of that bridge. Make sure that you remove all the prefered networks and check the wireless security settings on your router and make sure that you are putting the same settings on your computer. Hope this helps.

[Phlipster]

i erased most of the files in my toshiba laptop and now i cant get on the internet. I mean i get a connection and when i try to open up the internet page it comes up and freezes. then i have to pres ctrl alt delete and stop the iexplorer process. i tried to restore files but it wouldnt let me get back to the date of deletion.

[cszeto]

Phlipster, you are describing IE or maybe OS issues since you had to delete files to restore functionality, which probably has nothing to do with networking. If the system can successfully "ping" something like www.yahoo.com, then it may be safe to assume that the difficulties are isolated to IE, where a reloading of IE may resolve the situation.

[greanwitch]

Exactly the problem i have been having. My lap top always says it is connected with excellent strength, usually. I originally had no problems with this and used the wireless for months. I could no longer get any internet pages! I have a router with Linksys. I started by calling them as it was still under warranty I think. Any how they talked me through a wide variety of things and concluded it was with my computer. a Compaq. I got in touch with the manufacturere who won't talk to me unless I pay for an additional extention to the warranty. I though maybe I could find out another way. Can anyone help?

[cszeto]

greanwitch, http://forums.practicallynetworked.com/showthread.php?t=3237.

[Crag]

I was experiencing similar problems, here is what I did to fix, give it a go and let me know if you have any success.

the problem for seemed to be that some of the services that windows was running were falling over (I'm using XP by the way). Restarting these seemed to do the trick.

+ Open 'Run' from the Start menu and type in 'services.msc'

Find the services "Wireless Zero Configuration" and "DHCP Client" in the window that opens.

+ Right click on 'Wireless Zero Configuration" and select Restart. Once it has restarted, do the same for "DHCP Client". Try opening your browser again and open a webpage. It should now work properly.

Now a bit of a problem was every time I restarted my PC I had to repeat the process. I setup a batch file to run during startup so I didn't have to worry about doing this.

+ Create a file called "dhcprestart.bat" anywhere you like. Edit it and but the following lines in:

@echo off
net stop "Wireless Zero Configuration"
net start "Wireless Zero Configuration"
net stop "DHCP Client"
net start "DHCP Client"

Now go into Control Panel and open Scheduled Tasks. Create a new scheduled task and point it to the batch file you have just created. Schedule it to run 'At System Startup'. Make sure you tick the 'Run only if Logged On' checkbox otherwise you might some an error to do with passwords.

Everything works fine for me now.

[cszeto]

Crag, thank you for sharing.