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Aquring Network Address Loop Problem?

Admiral_Young

Admiral_Young

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Wasn't sure where to post this. Mods feel free to move this to the appropriate forum if neccessary. So the landlord and I were trying to fix our router and the tech support person told us to reboot it by unplugging it and plugging it back in. We did this a couple of times. My landlords computer (which I'm using right now works fine) however mine seems to be stuck constantly on aquiring network address and won't connect to the internet. When I go into the properities it shows I don't even have an ip address. Something obviously went wonky with mine when the router was reset. I've tried logging it with disabling the firewall and that didn't do anything. I've done the release ip thing with the command prompt and that just tells me my media is disconnected. Can anyone help? Thanks.
 
Is this a Wifi or cabled network? If you're using Wifi and your landlord is using a cable directly to the router, perhaps the Wifi settings (SSID, security protocol, passphrase) got reset on the router. Do you still see the network in range with its old name? The router's DHCP settings might also have been reset, but the usual default is to enable the DHCP server.
 
We're both using wifi. Okay. I think I found what's wrong. My computer seems to have reset back to the default router which isn't the router that my landlord is using. How do I switch it back?
 
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Mine doesn't have those opions when I click on the icon it says view wireless networks, change windows firewall settings, and open network connections.
 
Do you have Windows XP? Sorry, I don't exactly recall how to do the settings for that OS, but I think sometimes you have to use the Wifi card vendor's utility. I would have thought you could get to the settings through "view wireless networks".

In truth, I'm one of those throwbacks who prefers to use the command line rather than a graphical interface, so I much prefer Unix and Linux to all things Microsoft.
 
I have XP yep. Pretty sure. I'm in wireless network connection properties right now. It shows the ethernet thing. I should have known something was wrong when it showed the old one. I clicked on wireless networks. Where do i go from here?
 
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/870702 -- assuming you are running at least XP SP2. Mind you, that looks like a lot of effort to sort your particular problem. With XP, WiFi seemed to screw up fairly often. Vista and Win 7 are a lot more stable and straightforward.

ETA: In the link, scroll down to "Drivers that support the Wireless Zero Configuration service" for the way to configure WiFi if the card vendor doesn't provide a utility. However, my experience was that most vendor's card drivers didn't support the WZC service.
 
Wow that does look rather complicated. Might just wait for my friend to come over tomorrow and take a look at it.
 
Yeah no worries. My friend will know what to do. At least now I've detected what the problem is...or seems to be. Though if there are any further suggestions I'd be happy to take them.
 
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The problem is fixed. My roommate just typed in the ip address and subnet whatever from my landlord's computer on to mine and I connected. Mods feel free to lock this thread.
 
I assume you mean gateway address and subnet mask. Kind of odd -- those settings are usually configured automatically if you use DHCP. You don't really want to have the same IP address as another computer on the same network. Oh well, glad to hear you're sorted.
 
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