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Previously on "Wireless USB dongle does not connect to router"
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THose USB wireless dongles dont have much power going to them so this can cause all sorts of issues. Even if it reports conencted it often haasn;t done it properly. I had the same issue with mine about 10 metres from the router through a brick wall - it couldnt connect. Replaced it with a USB wireless card and it all worked fine
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Originally posted by lilelvis2000 View Postthank god I went with BeThere.
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I'm sure they've put the cat5 in by now so hopefully the issues are all gone.
I don't use wireless in my office but every other place I've setup a wireless LAN "it just worked".
The dongles did not work with the standard Windows wireless configuration control panel - alarm bells!. It used its own (XPC something I think). Was crap I must say. Very hard to setup the WEP key and the WPA didn't work at all (Remember BT routers output two SSID one for the PC which uses WEP and one for phones which uses WPA).
These BT routers do suck. thank god I went with BeThere.
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Originally posted by lilelvis2000 View PostI'm not sure what I would do with that piece of information. I didn't check that. If I do ipconfig /renew it times out.
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Originally posted by voodooflux View PostAnything in the Windows Event Log about a DHCPNACK error?
I'm not sure what I would do with that piece of information. I didn't check that. If I do ipconfig /renew it times out.
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Originally posted by lilelvis2000 View PostThe window which displayed the "available networks" only showed the one in the next room. And the WEP key worked and the dongle reported as "connected" and the PC attempted to obtain a DHCP lease which indicates that it is connected to the proper router.
doing "ipconfig /renew" always timed out.
Both router and dongle support 11b/g and router DHCP is turned on. MAC filtering is off. There is a laptop which connects just fine in the office.
There is some subtle incompatibility somewhere.
????????? Its enough to give me MORE gray hairs.
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Having the same (or similar) problem with the eldests XBOX360 at home.
The gear recognises the network, 5 bands of signal.
Absolutely won't connect up, no matter how many times I enter the WEP key
I know that the WEP key is right because I use it with my phone, laptop and the youngests PS3.
Customer Services = Chocolate Teapot
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The window which displayed the "available networks" only showed the one in the next room. And the WEP key worked and the dongle reported as "connected" and the PC attempted to obtain a DHCP lease which indicates that it is connected to the proper router.
doing "ipconfig /renew" always timed out.
Both router and dongle support 11b/g and router DHCP is turned on. MAC filtering is off. There is a laptop which connects just fine in the office.
There is some subtle incompatibility somewhere.
????????? Its enough to give me MORE gray hairs.
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Are you absolutely certain the dongle was connected to the router you were looking at, and not some other router on the next floor or something?
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Wireless USB dongle does not connect to router
I have just come back from a trip to a buddie's company. They guy makes those flavoured vodka shots...doing well.
So I took the WEP key off the BT router and setup the USB dongle and attempted to make the connection. The dongle connected..or so it claimed. The signal bars on its software showed connection status as goog. But, it could not obtain a DHCP lease.
Looking at the router I could not see the connection to the dongle. I could not see its MAC address as a client. MAC filtering is off. A reboot of the router did nothing.
I scratched my head and could not figure out what was going wrong. This stuff usually "just works". Client is now using cat5 to the router.
Any ideas what might be the issue? These dongles worked when my client was next door to me...all be it with a different BT router.Tags: None
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