Home netwoking ?

Have you ever seen the "limited or no connectivity" message that sometimes pops up? I have seen it a time or two. Most of the time, I just click on "Repair" and its over. Other times, that the repair false to work I can disable the NIC and re-enable it. So, most of the time it’s a 2 minute inconvenience. Until now....My girlfriend’s mother just gave her a 7 m/o Toshiba. The guy whom she got it from never used it. Literally. The PC is really nice. It worked very well on my wireless router. Until Sunday night.

I was in the computer room doing some homework on my IBM laptop and Jaime’s bro came in and said that he had a vid from Bradington that he wanted to show me. Here is where every thing went nuts....

I closed the lid on my laptop. Causing it to go into standby mode. I log in to the desktop (hard wired) and there is no internet/network connection. I play with the NIC/network settings and nothing. I Reboot, nothing. I open my IBM, no network connection (wireless) I do the same as I did on the desktop. Still nothing. I check the DSL modem, its working fine. I look at the bran spanking new Net gear super G router, all the lights are on like they should. So, just for ha ha's I unplug the router for about 10 sec's and just like magic both PC's are working. Then I go and check on Jaime's laptop and im getting the 'limited or no connectivity" I have done every thing I can think of to get this thing to work...Like:

1. Clicking on the repair button
2. Disabling the wireless card and enabling it again
3. Turning off the card and turning it back on
4. Deleting the wireless profile from the list and then adding it
5. Downloading a fix for XP SP2 issues for said message
6. Turning off all firewalls.
7. Setting up a WEP key
8. Turning off and on the DHCP in the router
9. Setting the IP range in the router so there are no conflicts
10. Doing all this with an angry wife saying "If I’m not happy, you’re not happy!"


I do not want to be beaten by something that I have fixed before. Why is this kicking mybutt??? What am I missing?

Generally that error means your computer was unable to contact a dhcp server to obtain an IP address. Usually your router is the dhcp server, for example, you'll get that error with a wifi router if you have the wrong encryption settings or a bad encryption key.

try turning off the encryption while you try everything, just to fully eliminate that. Check to see what ip the computers are being given by:

Start > Run > CMD and then typing ipconfig /all

That should tell you, i often got that message due to it being given a 169.x.x.x address which was not my subnet. Just doing a ipconfig /release and ipconfig /renew worked and i was off again !!

Try that and see what happens.

something I've had to do here is, in System properties, Hardware, I click on the network adapter and uncheck the box that allows windows to turn off the device to conserve power...seems to have helped a bit.