i went over to my friends house the other day with my laptop. at my house the connection is usually under very good and its a wireless connection obviosly. so im there for a few hours and its working fine but the the connection crashes cause the ip address couldnt work with another on the network. so the next day i bring it home and im all happy cause i can go on the internet now. but even here it wont work cause of the same problem! ive never run into this problem before someone please help me. thanks
2007-07-16 06:45:05 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Computer Networking
without going into details on why it's doing that,
the simple answer is that
you and you're friend probably configured the router the same way as in your home.. with the ip address,
that's why some people like to set their dchp on their home routers to numbers other than 192.xxx,xxx.xx
because of the same reason you have... your firend's router doesn't know better that you came from another network since you both have the same range 192.xxx.xxx
and thinks you were part of your friends network...
even though it's a diffferent ssid..., we have this problem when we set up the wirelss at work (it's a college, and it was set up for students) and when some student went home to connect to their routers, it had the school's ip address...
next time,
when you are in your friends house, and you connect,
go to start
run
command
click on
type ipconfig /release
and hit enter..
type ipconfig /renew
and hit enter...
that should register you properly at your friends house, and when you are home, do it again...
2007-07-16 06:52:28 · answer #1 · answered by mxnakano 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Try checking your connection settings on your computer. If by chance, you are trying to connect to a router other than your own, the owner could have reset it, causing the connection crash. Connecting to the wrong network usually happens when swtiching between networks.
2007-07-16 13:48:50 · answer #2 · answered by psychiccheese 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
When you connect to a different modem... You get a different IP address... unless you went through the troubles of masking your IP to match the one you have at home...
2007-07-16 14:53:59 · answer #3 · answered by Anthony 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Check that all your tcp/ip properties are set to automatic. If you try to use a fixed address you will often conflict with other equipment.
2007-07-16 14:31:44 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Reboot the router.
2007-07-16 13:49:41 · answer #5 · answered by I Like Stories 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
check your settings, call your manager of your internet or just buy another laptop............
2007-07-16 13:48:13 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋