Hello all, I am currently in a hotel (in Germany) with my laptop, which has an SMC wireless card. This card connects with no difficulty to my Linksys wireless router at home in Canada. In the hotel they have an open wireless network with password access for guests (I have the password), but I am unable to get on this. Other Canadian guests have managed to connect fine. It shows that the link is active and there is a signal, but I cannot ping the router or access point, nor can I receive an ip address etc. from the router. I have manually set an IP address, subnet mask and dns server as well as gateway, but am still not able to get online. I thought perhaps there was a problem with the wireless card, so purchased another one here and the results were the same. I am running XP SP2 with the latest updates. I am really desperate to get online with my own laptop as there is an emergency at home and I need to use it to message and call. Has anyone any idea of what might be going on? I can receive email in the hotel lobby, so will receive any replies. Many thanks, Ellie

Ellie Kennard Innovative Imaging Studio http://www.iistudio.com

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" I have manually set an IP address "where did you get that?
Why don't ask the other guests how they did it.







On Thursday, August 30, 2007 at 1:25 am, Ellie wrote:

>Hello all,

>I am currently in a hotel (in Germany) with my laptop, which has an SMC wireless 

>card. This card connects with no difficulty to my Linksys wireless router at home 

>in Canada. In the hotel they have an open wireless network with password access 
for 

>guests (I have the password), but I am unable to get on this. Other Canadian guests 

>have managed to connect fine. It shows that the link is active and there is a signal, 

>but I cannot ping the router or access point, nor can I receive an ip address etc. 

>from the router. I have manually set an IP address, subnet mask and dns server as 

>well as gateway, but am still not able to get online. 

>

>I thought perhaps there was a problem with the wireless card, so purchased another 

>one here and the results were the same.

>

>I am running XP SP2 with the latest updates.

>

>I am really desperate to get online with my own laptop as there is an emergency 
at 

>home and I need to use it to message and call. Has anyone any idea of what might 

>be going on? I can receive email in the hotel lobby, so will receive any replies.

>

>Many thanks,

>

>Ellie 

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I got the ip address from ipconfig on another computer that managed to connect. Chose the last part as one of the numbers the hotel suggested (192.168.1.45) but also tried others at the end in case that IP was taken. I got no messages of conflict. The other guests managed to just connect. Thanks. Ellie

Ellie Kennard Innovative Imaging Studio http://www.iistudio.com


On Thursday, August 30, 2007 at 9:50 am, alex wrote:
>

>" I have manually set an IP address "where did you get that?
>Why don't ask the other guests how they did it.

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If you right click the wireless icon in the task bar right hand corner (little pc screen with waves coming from it) and click view available wireless networks, can you see an entry for the hotel? If so double click it and enter the password. you do not need to manually enter ip addresses or subnets etc as the hotel router will allocate this for you

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This does not work. The link appears to be fine, there is a signal, but I am unable to connect. If I do not manually put in the IP info etc., then it does not give me anything at all. It gives a PIP (Private IP) and a subnet mask of 255.255.0.0, which is not right, of course, and no gateway at all. Says cannot connect to DHCP server. I think I explained that in the first post. Thanks for trying. Ellie

Ellie Kennard Innovative Imaging Studio http://www.iistudio.com


On Thursday, August 30, 2007 at 12:31 pm, Si wrote:
>If you right click the wireless icon in the task bar right hand corner (little pc
>screen with waves coming from it) and click view available wireless networks, can
>you see an entry for the hotel? If so double click it and enter the password. you
>do not need to manually enter ip addresses or subnets etc as the hotel router will
>allocate this for you

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