AboutMichael Troy Expertise I have a fair amount of experience in peer-to-peer networking using Windows 95/98. I can answer questions about hardware, networking software, protocol settings, etc. I have some client-server experience, but not a lot with Windows-based servers. I can also give some advice on home network security: VPN, firewalls, anti-virus, etc.
Experience I am the Director of Information Systems for a large law firm which connects about 300 users over five offices via a wide area network. We use client-server, peer-to-peer, WINS, remote access, VPN, DSL Internet, and proxy servers.
I also have a peer-to-peer network of six computers at home, with file and print sharing, remote access, and shared Internet access with a firewall.
Question I am having trouble getting my computer to connect to the Internet. I had to do a full system recovery, after having an issue with a few programs, did the system recovery back to the factory default settings. Everything worked great after doing that, but it has built in wireless, and it can find my Wifi, and but it never connects, it only shows identifying, i never get the full connection. Also i even plugged it right into my wireless router and it never connects, the only shows Local, but my main concern is getting it back onto my wireless connection. can you help, or maybe give a few tips.
Thanks very much,
Anthony
Answer Hello,
It is possible you do not have DHCP configured on the router. If the old PC had a static IP set on it, it would have worked fine. When you reformatted it, the default is to have the card look for a DHCP server. In such a case, you would need either to enable DHCP on the router, or add a compatible static IP address to the wireless card on the computer. The other possibility is that if you have WEP security on your router, if you entered the security code incorrectly, it will appear to connect but not data will transfer. In that case, you would need to re-enter the correct WEP code.
