Limited or no connectivity

[erleichda1]

I have a new Dell Inspiron B130 laptop. I have a home wireless network (WPA security). I've been connected to my network just fine using my laptop. Then today, while I was doing email, I got "limited or no connectivity," and the signal was excellent. I did a repair and couldn't get an IP address assigned.

At the same time, my husband was working on his laptop and he had no trouble. And I got onto one of our PCs to look up this problem, and I'm having no trouble here, either.

I didn't try disabling or deleting the wireless card. I wasn't certain what to try next. But everything was fine and I had changed nothing when this problem occurred.

Thank you for your help.

Lori

 

[Packet7]

Hi,

What type of Wireless Access Point do you have? If it happens again, I would try disabling your Wireless Card and then re-enabled it. This usually works for me. However, there are several variables that could cause this type of problem. Let me know.

Rgds,

John

 

[globalchicken]

Also, you could think about assigning static IP and DNS servers, that way time to receive a DHCP address is negligible

 

[Auger282]

but if you manually set it you wont be able to take it to any other place that Does use DHCP... without turning it off...

and I have used static addressing but as the "alternate configuration" and its just as slow as just using DHCP...

so its really up to how you want to have things...

 

[porabai]

One of the possible solution is to renenter the SSID and password you used while using the wireless router 1st time. try using the same id and password on the laptop and it will fix the problem. i too had the same problem and tried different options and mine was also similar case like yours. no connectivity but 100% signal but when i open the internet explorer it always says no page to display and then i pulled my backup of the text file(i saved my information of id and password) and rententered in the laptop by rightclicking on wireless networking and select the network i needed and go into properties and u have option for the id and network key.

i hope this should solve your problem