I have wireless internet at my apartment, which was working fine untill recently. When I started college this week, I took my laptop to clas and tried to access wireless there. After a few unsuccessful attemps, I took my laptop to the support group who reconfigured my ip adrress or changed it...I'm not sure. Well, whatever the case, now my wirless don't work back at my apartment. I can get to the Yahoo! web site, but from there on I can't log on to any other part of the site that requires me to log in. I am barely able to get to any other site either. My wireless card says I have either a very good or excellent connection, but nothing happens. What do I do?
2006-08-29 10:59:09 · 4 answers · asked by foreveready 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Internet
go into MS DOS
If you have XP you can get their by going into the start menu, then programs, then accessories, then command prompt
Type ipconfig /release
then type
ipconfig /renew
you have to type it exactly like that, and that will release and then renew your ip address
2006-08-29 11:07:03 · answer #1 · answered by 35Z 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They must not allow dynamic IP addresses at your college, and set your laptop for a fixed IP address. Here's what you've got to do (I'm assuming you have Windows XP):
- Open Start menu -> Control panel -> Nework and Internet connections
- Click Network connections
- Look for your wireless connection icon, and right-click on it. Choose Properties
- Look for a TCP/IP protocol item in the Items list, click on it
- Click the Properties button
- Write down the "Use the following IP address" group's values and keep them safely, as you'll need them when you go back to college
- Click the "Get an IP address automatically" radio button
- Click OK, and close everything else
This should do it. When you go back to college, follow a similar procedure, but use the "Use the following IP address" radio button, and input the values you wrote down earlier.
Hope this helps.
2006-08-29 18:13:53 · answer #2 · answered by Gandalf the Grey 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To change the IP, go to the Command Prompt in Accessories then type :
ipconfig /renew
That'll erase everything and reassign an IP
2006-08-29 18:05:16 · answer #3 · answered by highlanders30 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
right click on My Network Places --> Then right click on your "network Connections" --> Then click properties --> double click on TCP/IP
you can manually input an IP there.
To release and renew your ip
click on start --> run --> typ cmd then hit enter --> type ipconfig/release --> then type ipconfig/renew
2006-08-29 18:07:22 · answer #4 · answered by Shiara 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋