Wireless Network Router Problems?

Gurus I need your help.





I'm trying to set up a wireless network in my house.


I have a D-Link 802.11g router and a Motorola Surfboard Cable Modem.


I've actually had this network up and running before, then the main computer crashed and brought the network down with it.


I've restored all the settings and I had it working for a little while today. The only problem was that I would have 5 bars up until I connected, then it would drop to 1 bar.


I read somewhere that I needed to reset my IPconfig so I did that and now I can't get any connection again.


As it stands right now, my laptop running Windows XP (SP2) detects the network, I can connect to it, but I can't connect to the internet. And the connection (that doesn't seem to exist, anyway) still drops down to one bar when I try to connect.


My wife's MAC's airport card doesn't recognize the network at all.


We currently piggyback off our neighbors. Please help.





Email with more specific questions if needed.

Wireless Network Router Problems?
There are a few pieces involved, so the problem could be in any of them.





1. Start by taking the D-Link router out of the equation entirely. Plug your compter directly into the Surfboard modem and confirm that you are indeed connected to the Internet. Reset your cable modem after you plug a different machine directly into it just in case it ignores the new MAC (ethernet media access control, not Apple Mac) address that it is seeing from the PC.





2. Verify that your Surfboard will accept a connection from any MAC address, not just a specific one.





3. When you plug the D-Link back into the Surfboard, restart the Surfboard and plug a PC directly into the D-Link to ensure that machines connected to the D-Link can connect all the way past the Surfboard and onto the Internet.





4. Verify that the D-Link is properly set up to supply wired and wireless computers with a proper IP address via DHCP





5. When you confirm that a wired connection works between a PC and the D-Link, then you can go back to troubleshooting the wireless connection. Begin by testing the wireless connectivity in the same room.





6. The IPCONFIG command you are looking for is IPCONFIG /RELEASE, followed by IPCONFIG /RENEW





7. The PING command will let you know how far your wireless connections are making it before there are problems.





Post back with the results of these checks, and I can edit my answer with more tips if necessary.
Reply:I dont know how easy this will be but it sounds like your Wireless router is blocking connections. What you need to do is use a hard wire (cable) and connect to the router. You should be able to use the web interface for the router to check the wireless settings including the secutiry.





Please keep in mind that by default MOST wireless routers and access points sold to the public do not have any security turned on. This means that any data sent from your laptop or desktop is open to being snooped by anyone looking for wireless signals.





Do not try and use the wireless connection to modify your router. This is not the best way.
Reply:do u have ur neighbors permission for that cuz its illegal now u will get fined and go to jail for a while





did u upgrade the firmware to the airport ? os10.4


downgrade to 5.4,








d-links are crap get a netgear