Problem with home network, ethernet works fine, but when I try wireless everything goes wrong?

Question

I have a desktop running xp home edition, a laptop running win 2000, and another laptop running win xp pro.
Both laptops have ethernet adapters and wireless cards. the desktop is not wireless, only ethernet. My home network was all working fine when I had it set up with a 4 port ethernet hub. I then wanted to be able to go wireless but am having trouble. My win2000 laptop is able to fileshare just fine with the desktop while wireless. But the winxp pro laptop is not able to fileshare with any of the other computers while wireless. The wireless network adapter seems to be working fine. It communicates ,has an ip address assigned to it,and works at public hotspots. IP's and workgroup names are set correctly. I can access the shared folders when I plug in an ethernet cable, but when wireless I get the message: "\\not accessible...might not have permission...network path not found"
I've tried turning off firewalls, using netbeui. nothing works. please help.

I don't have broadband, only dialup,
The wireless works just like it should on win2000 laptop (router is set up properly I would guess). The signal strenght is excellent, its only a few feet away from the router while I'm trying to make it work. I've rebooted everything a number of times. when using ehternet on win xp laptop, I can access shared folders and internet(if pc is dialed up to ISP) but when wireless I can not connect to internet nor any shared folders from the winxp pro laptop (I can just fine with win 2000 laptop while wireless)
doing the run...\\192.163.0.103 (winxp laptops ip) from pc did not work. any other ideas? I appreciate the help thus far

Answer 1

Try access the XP laptop from one of the other computer using the laptop's IP address, rather than the name. Go to the start button, then select Run, and type in the ip with two \\ in front of it (\\192.168.0.100 for example). See if that opens a window showing the XP laptop's folder. Often if you can connect it once, it will work right after that.

You can also try adding a text file into your Windows (or on Windows 2000 your Winnt) directory called "host" (no extension).

In the host list the host name and IP addresses of each of the computers like:

computer_1 192.168.0.100
computer_2 192.168.0.200
....

This will tell each of the computers how to find the others without having to get this information from the router.

Answer 2

1. Make sure the signal is strong enough. I've found Microsoft's network protocol behaves badly when signal is week.

2. When disconnect Ethernet cable, are you able to access the Internet in your own network? If you can't, try to do ipconfig /renew to re-establish your wireless IP.

3. If everythin fails, reboot your PC. See if that help.

4. Also, check your router setup to see if you have wireless disabled.

Answer 3

ok ur have desktop an ur router with ethernet works fine now what you must do is this go to ur router setting control panel from ur inthernet explorer . then from there ur see a WLNN icon hit on that then ur have to hit on config. to set up a network id . when u done that . set it for ur region when that is done go to da. bottom and set up security key u can use wep or wpa key when u set that up hit on apply then exit ur router control page then go back to ur laptop make sure ur network drivers are install for ur wireless set up then hit on da. network icon and put in ur network id an security key u set up on ur router then hit apply an it will log in if you cant do this then call ur (isp) if they cant help[ you call ur router support and they will help you b/c 90% of (isp) servers support suck big time setting up a wireless network is easy when you have access to ur router control page

Answer 4

1. may be, just may be, the cable to your "slow" computer passes near a very high interference device/power cable which is causing disturbance to its traffic... try keeping it away from all electrical stuff... 2. there is a limit of how lengthy cable can u use before the signal gets deteriorated... and i think dat is 50 meters...

Answer 5

You mite try reassigning it to your network that may work
good luck