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dandy7213-May-16 7:04

dandy72

13-May-16 7:04

That's a lot of overtime.

Pete O'Hanlon13-May-16 7:47

Pete O'Hanlon

13-May-16 7:47

Congrats Nagy. 'Tis awesome news.

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Brisingr Aerowing13-May-16 14:48

Brisingr Aerowing

13-May-16 14:48

Good job! That is awesome.

What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?

The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.

Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???

Joan M14-May-16 3:08

14-May-16 3:08

Congrats!

It was about time, wasn't it?

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Wifi extender blues

Joan M13-May-16 5:01

13-May-16 5:01

The phone company technician has come to change our router as it looks like the old one was damaged (it was dropping wifi often).

After that I've needed to reconfigure every device at home to connect to the wifi and till now everything seems to work as expected.

But... (this is the funny part).

Some of you will remember I have an access point that can be configured as a range extender.
I’ve paired it with the brand new router using WPS in order to ensure nothing by my hand could make it go wrong.

In order to test it was working I disconnected the Wifi on my laptop and through a network cable connected directly to the range extender, I’ve navigated the Internet a little at full speed and without any problem. Thumbs Up | :thumbsup:

The router is at channel 11 now and it is far from any other devices. Thank you "Wifi Analyzer". Thumbs Up | :thumbsup:

The signal from the router at the access point/range extender oscillates between 65% to 100%. Thumbs Up | :thumbsup:

The signal downstairs is more or less between 50% to 60%. Thumbs Up | :thumbsup:

When I go downstairs I can use two phones to navigate and to receive mail without problems.
Notice that the router signal doesn’t arrive downstairs, both phones are navigating through the range extender thing (data in phones is disabled so I'm sure of that). Thumbs Up | :thumbsup:

But my laptop doesn't want to cope with it.
Mostly it shows a perfect connection (4 of the 5 bars on the task bar) and it shows that it has internet access (in the network and shared resources window)
COMPUTER  WLAN XXXX  Internet
But I can’t navigate.

And from time to time, even it shows the connection is done (4 of 5 bars) it tells me the Internet is not available.
COMPUTER --> WLAN XXXX -X- Internet

In any of the previous situations I can’t navigate but I can see I'm connected to the home group (even I can't navigate the computers in the home group)... Dead | X|

LATEST TEST DONE:
1. disable data in the cell phone.
2. connect the cell phone through USB.
3. Activate USB tethering.
4. navigate through the laptop at a really nice speed.

Anyone here can imagine why this is happening? It looks like a problem in the computer… not in the range extender as both phones can manage to navigate with the data disabled (so it is using the wifi signal).

I can’t move the router which would be the easiest thing to do, and I can’t put a long cable between both places (up and downstairs).

Sorry for the long story and thank you all for reading/posting! Thumbs Up | :thumbsup:

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modified 14-May-16 4:14am.

DaveAuld13-May-16 6:03

DaveAuld

13-May-16 6:03

In network properties of the wifi adapter or wired connections on the laptop (depending on what you are using), under the ipV4 protocol options, make sure that your DNS is set for DHCP.

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Joan M13-May-16 6:27

13-May-16 6:27

Every single thing on the computer is on DHCP and the same result...

I've got it at fixed IP addresses and fixed DNS without success.

And Also with DHCP and fixed DNS without success...

Dead | X|

Ghosted windows 7... Roll eyes | :rolleyes:

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Mark_Wallace13-May-16 6:42

Mark_Wallace

13-May-16 6:42

Have you tried enabling NetBios over TCP/IP?

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Joan M13-May-16 6:51

13-May-16 6:51

Done as you say, no change. Dead | X|

Thank you! Thumbs Up | :thumbsup:

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dandy7213-May-16 7:02

dandy72

13-May-16 7:02

I hate wifi. I just do. 2 weeks ago I replaced my ancient 802.11g-based router because my wifi connection was becoming the bottleneck for file transfers between PCs on my LAN. Now it's faster, but inevitably 1 out of ~10 web pages I attempt to load (on any browser, on any device) simply fails to load, complaining I have no internet connection. The previous router was rock-solid, in that respect. Started as soon as it got replaced. Hitting Refresh once fixes it, every time. (And then depending on the site I may have to login again, such as my bank - rather annoying).

I never hear anyone complaining about wired connections.

Sorry, did I just make this about me instead of you?

[Edit] There it goes again - I hit Post, my browser thinks I'm not connected.

Joan M13-May-16 9:21

13-May-16 9:21

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phil.o13-May-16 7:47

phil.o

13-May-16 7:47

You can also try to flush ARP table:

dos

arp -d *

and/or reset the winsock catalog and reboot:

dos

netsh winsock reset

A replacement of your WiFi adapter's driver could be useful, too.

You always obtain more by being rather polite and armed than polite only.

Joan M13-May-16 9:21

13-May-16 9:21

Tried it... not working. Dead | X|

Thank you! Thumbs Up | :thumbsup:

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phil.o13-May-16 23:18

phil.o

13-May-16 23:18

You can then investigate your routing tables:

dos

route print

It becomes kind of tricky to analyze from that, if you are not familiar with it. At least, gateway address for WiFi interface for 0.0.0.0 network should be correct, i.e. it should be the gateway address which all other devices are using when then want to reach outside.
A traceroute could give clues, also:

dos

tracert www.anywhere.com

With that, you may identify the point in the routing chain where the issue appears.

You always obtain more by being rather polite and armed than polite only.

Thought of the day

OriginalGriff13-May-16 4:56

OriginalGriff

13-May-16 4:56

Is the hardest part of being a vegan getting up at 5am to milk all the Soya?

Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

R. Giskard Reventlov13-May-16 5:05

R. Giskard Reventlov

13-May-16 5:05

That's nuts.

megaadam13-May-16 5:22

megaadam

13-May-16 5:22

Please aspargus puns involving food.

... such stuff as dreams are made on

jeron113-May-16 5:38

jeron1

13-May-16 5:38

Yesterdays thought has this one beet.

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