Q: OK Heres my problem .
I XP on a laptop (Dell Latitude) (PII, 256, 12gig). At the time, I had no ethernet card for it so no drivers are added during installation. @ Home Internet appears today to install on my roommates computer. He leaves her computer works fine. I go to the store, buy a hub and an ethernet card for my laptop, plug it in, install drivers (everything is ok to work on this point). I @ home plug modem into the hub, on our computer to the hub too. I lose both connections at that point. So I decide I will just connect the laptop and not worry about the network morning. I plug the laptop into the modem and still no net, plug in my roommate and she is fine. call me @ home and telling me they can give to 3 IPs per household at no additional cost and that she could my network card, but I still had no connection to the Internet. PLZ HELP .
Best Answer: You can access the Connect to a network dialog box from many locations in Windows Vista, including the following:
• By clicking Start, and then Connect to from the Windows Vista desktop
• From the Manage wireless connections dialog box
• From the Connect/Disconnect context menu option of a wireless network adapter in the Network Connections folder
The new Connect to a network dialog box is a redesigned version of the Choose a wireless network dialog box in Windows XP with Service Pack 2 (SP2). This new dialog also supports virtual private network (VPN) and dial-up connections (including Connection Manager and Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet [PPPoE]).
In Show, you can select the following:
• All Wireless, dial-up, and VPN connections.
• Wireless Only wireless connections.
• Dial-up and VPN Only dial-up and VPN connections.
By default, All is selected and the list of networks consists of wireless networks that have been detected and dial-up and VPN connections that have been configured. A non-broadcast network appears in the list with the name “Unnamed Network.” The list of available networks is subject to the allowed wireless networks configured through Group Policy or the command line and the types of wireless networks being detected, such as infrastructure mode or ad hoc mode networks.
To connect to a wireless network that is listed in the Connect to a network dialog box, double-click the network name or click the network name and then click Connect. For a non-broadcast network, you will be prompted to type the wireless network name. If the connection attempt is not successful, use Windows Network Diagnostics to diagnose the problem and suggest a solution.
If the wireless network you want to connect to is not listed, click Set up a connection or network. Windows Vista displays the following page.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/communi…
Re:Maybe too simple, but I assume you changed the computer name (ID) and other network settings on your laptop to be the ones provided by your cable internet company.
Re:If you don't have more than one IP, then get a cable router/hub (Netgear RT314 is pretty good) and use its NAT.
Re:You don't need an extra ip. The easy way out is to return your hub, and get a cable router. Your short term solution should have worked, but you need to use the same settings that your friend's pc is using.
Re:well it's not @home but it is cable, i used @home because i wanted to generlize the situation, i live in canada and cabel internet is cheaper here then anywhere else world wide. right no the deal is, no payment for 6 months, then it's $20 a month. this includes upto 3 ip's per house (per paid connection).
my short term solution was to just plug in the laptop directly to the cable modem. this is where my problem lies. roommates compter works fine running win98, my laptop (XP-PRO) just won't see the internet. XP's firewall is diabled.
The ip it's giving me is nowhere close to the ip tech support had said mine was.
thx for your help so far
Re:I would go back to the store and exchange the hub you bought for a router.
I've never heard of @home giving multiple IP's out at no additional charge. Even assuming this is correct, since @home is going bankrupt you may be looking at a new ISP sooner than you think.
Basically what the router will do for you is create your own private LAN which is hidden from the ISP, allowing you to create and use as many IP numbers as you want.
At any rate, you can probably do without the router in the short-term by properly configuring your IP setup on each computer. But if your ISP changes hands, or decides to start charging for extra IP numbers (a standard practice), you may regret purchasing the hub instead of the router in the first place.
Hope this helps – Good luck!
Re:You'll need to setup different IP address for each computer. If both computers are trying to use the same IP address, then only one will work at a time. I believe if your roommate turned off her computer and you hooked yours back up to the hub and rebooted it, it would be able to connect to the internet.
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