I am on a wireless network and it works fine for me and it used to work fine for my GF's laptop but all of a sudden one day it says that there is limited or no connectivity and I cannot figure out for the life of me how to get her internet to work. I tried the ipconfig stuff but it couldnt renew an ip address and I also tried to unplug the router/modem but that didnt do anything. I tried a couple other things in the command prompt that I read online but cant remember the exact names of it right now

Any ideas how to fix this?

And it is a Dell laptop running XP

8/22/2008 5:53:31 PM

I'm assuming the router is set to DHCP?

I usually set the IP to static and manually enter the IP's, then I don't have these issues.

8/22/2008 5:55:50 PM

it is just a basic router setting with a password

also, she tried to get on at caribou coffee where she normally can get internet access but it didnt work either

8/22/2008 5:58:02 PM

well maybe it's the opposite problem, are you sure her settings are set to "Obtain IP automatically"?

from google:
http://compnetworking.about.com/od/windowsnetworking/ht/limited-connect.htm

[Edited on August 22, 2008 at 6:02 PM. Reason : .]

8/22/2008 6:01:12 PM

No I am not sure because I don't know a whole ton about networks but I do know it did work, she didn't do anything, I didn't do anything in regards to networks so I don't know why it all of a sudden messed up

An hour on the phone with Dell solved absolutely nothing

8/22/2008 6:03:16 PM

i have no clue what happened but it works now...over a week of nothing and now it works

whatever haha

8/22/2008 6:58:51 PM