I.P. wireless internet connection trouble, can you help me out?

Question

Alright so my computer recognizes my computers IP address now it’s just not letting me connect to my family’s main NETGEAR computer. My NETGEAR is saying “Limited to no activity, fire walled”. What should I do?

Answer 1

Start > Run > CMD (enter)

ipconfig /flushDNS (enter)

ipconfig /renew (enter)

Wait and see what error returns.

Also, what happens when you 'view available wireless networks'

Answer 2

Go to Start|Control Panel|Network Connections. Now find your wireless network connection and double click on it. Press Properties. Go to the Advanced Tab and Firewall Settings.
Make sure your firewall is off. Now go back to the Network Connections in Control Panel and right-click your network connection. Select repair. Your connection will repair, then close the window and it should work.

Answer 3

OK, let me see if I have this straight. You have two computers that connect wirelessly to a wireless router. Both computers can access the internet through the wireless router, but you are trying to connect your computer to the family computer so you can either share files on it or share the printer that's connected to it (at least, those are my assumptions, and my answer below is based on those assumptions).

Open up Control Panel > Network Connections.

You should see an icon with the phrase "Wireless Connection" somewhere in the description. Right-click on that icon and select Status from the pop-up menu.

Click the Support tab.

Write down the IP address and the Default Gateway. The IP address is the IP address of that machine, the Default Gateway is the IP address of your wireless router.

Do this for both computers. For the sake of this example, let's say Computer #1 has an IP address of 192.168.0.6, Computer #2 has an IP address of 192.168.0.8, and the router has an IP address of 192.168.0.1.

Try pinging the family computer from your computer. To do this, open up a DOS window on your computer (go to Start > Run, type CMD in the Open field and click OK). At the prompt, type:
ping 192.168.0.8
Using, of course, the IP address of the family computer. Hit the Enter key. If you see the message "Request timed out," then you don't have a connection to the other computer.

Open up the firewall on your computer and add the family computer's IP address to the Trusted Zone. I don't know which firewall you're using, so I can't give you explicit instructions, but when you open it up, dig around for a place where you can add an IP address to the Trusted Zone.

Now go to the family computer, open up the firewall on it, and add your computer's IP address to the Trusted Zone.

Try pinging the family computer from your computer again. This time, you should see something like "Reply from 192.168.0.8 blah, blah, blah." If not, you may also need to add the IP address of your router to each of the firewalls.

Once they can ping each other, you can enable file sharing or printer sharing on the family computer:

Open Windows Explorer on the family computer. Select a folder to be shared, right-click on it and select "Sharing..." from the pop-up menu.

Select "Share this folder" and type in a "Share name" (like SharedFolder, for example). Click OK.

Again, on the family computer, right-click on My Computer and select Properties. Click on the Computer Name tab and note the Full Computer Name of the family computer (like JonesPC, for example).

Now, on your computer, right-click on My Computer and select "Map Network Drive..." from the pop-up menu. For Folder, type in the name of the computer and the shared folder like this:
\\ComputerName\SharedFolderName
For example: \\JonesPC\SharedFolder
Click Finish. If the family computer has user accounts, then you may be prompted for a user name and password.

For printer sharing, it's a similar procedure. Go to the family computer, Control Panel > Printers. Right-click on the printer you want to share and select Sharing from the pop-up menu.

Select "Share this Printer" and give it a Share name (like Canon850).

Go to your computer, Control Panel > Printers. Select File > Add Printer from the menu. The Add Printer Wizard will start. When you get to the first set of options, you will select "A network printer, or a printer attached to another computer."

On the second set of options, pick "Connect to this printer..." For name, type in \\ComputerName\PrinterShareName
For example: \\JonesPC\Canon850

Continue with the rest of the Wizard (should be self-explanatory).

Depending upon the printer, you may need to run the printer's setup CD on your machine before you add it.

Answer 4

how far away is this computer from the wireless router? try using cables rather than wireless and see if that does any better. it might be your wireless card. good luck!