Mr.Cookie

if encryption isn't on or access isn't limited to certain i.p or mac addy's someone could park out front of house and pick up your signal.

Si

[Edited by Mr.Cookie - 6/3/2003 9:38:05 PM]

carl

Give it a reboot (from the control panel). Mine gets a bit funny after a while.

Might also need a firmware update (there's a "check for updated firmware" button on the control panel too).

What signal strength are you getting at the laptop? I found that running the PCMCIA card in the laptop on "power saving" mode rather than "continuous access" caused a lot of the problems you're describing.

[Edited by carl - 6/4/2003 9:25:20 AM]

Tiggs

i have a link wirless ADSL router thingy....it sends ADSL to my laptop.

Now when it works it all seems nice and quick but every now and then it says it cant find a site or it will go to a sites homepage but no further or it will not show pics???? whats it up to? is there anything i should be "setting up" to allow for IE to use a wirless connection or am i talking twaddle?

NON COMLEX ANSWRERS PLEASE

Figment

Once it has been set up and working, it should always work. There are no settings in IE to adjust in order to use wireless.

Is it possible you are at the limit of the range from the router and getting a very poor signal?

Could also be the cache/temporary internet files needs clearing or simply problems loading the pages in general.

Nicks VR4

Maybe and a big maybe ... someone else is taking up bandwidth on your wireless router

Figment

Hmmm, hadn't considered the warchalking theory

Tiggs

not a range problem as im sat right by it!

how would someelse use my bandwidth?

could it be that the xbox is plugged in?

mj

I sometimes find that our router at work plays up - its not wireless, but like you I get failed email,internet explorer.

Try going into the control panel of your router, I'm not that well up but try typing something like 192.168.0.01, or 192.168.254.254 into your browser address bar - this is the IP address of the router, and should take you to the router control panel ( which is really a web page ), from here you can set it up.

When it happens with me, I go into the router ( I have the IP address page saved to Favs), then I go to the connection page. If I disconnect and then reconnect this usually cures the problem. I would think that my router is not properley set up, but I don't really know much about it, I just do what I said above and hope for the best.

Also you say that sometimes just the homepage loads but you can go no further, If you have been to the site before then i think the page is just loading from your temporary internet files.

But I could be talking Twaddle

Cheers,

Mike.

Figment

Which router have you got Tiggs?

JackClark

If someone's gone to the trouble of sitting outside your house just for an internet connection chances are they have the tools to break any security you could put in place. I advertise mine and haven't noticed anyone using it yet, neither has my service provider.

Tiggs

figment,

its a d-link.

(and no ones parked outside!)