Hello,

I just recently moved and do not have internet hooked up yet; however, my neighbor said i could use my wireless and connect off of hers.

I know my wireless card works because I used it to connect to my old roommates dsl. But now, i can connect to my neighbors network and it even says im connected, however when i open up internet explorer it says page can not be displayed. Is it just a setting i need to change?

It could be a problem on the other end, or may be the wireless is not connected after all.
Please post more info about your setup ...
You could start troubleshooting by, let's say: from a Dos/command prompt:

c:\>ipconfig/all

Windows IP Configuration

Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : Money Michael
Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . :
Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Broadcast
IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-12-F0-32-BF-79
Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No

IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 169.254.5.216
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.0.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :

Also the computer is a Dell Inspiron 6000 2005
with the wireless card is broadcom 440x 10\100 integrated c

running windows xp pro

also pc cillin antivirus 11...i wasnt sure if that firewall could be the problem?

oh and also...when i am "connected" it says im sending packets but i am not receiving them...

yes i checked this morning

correct network and password

What kind of router does your neighbor have?
I think it is very likely a problem on that end; specifically dhcp settings on the router.
Can you ask the neighbor to logon to the router and check the dhcp addresses range?
Also find out if the router is setup for WEP or WPA, and whether mac filtering is setup.

They are using 2wire router and there is no filtering set up on it to their knowledge they said.

Hi,

As Nubiatech is talking about DHCP is found this line in the ipconfig log:

Hi John and Thanks

I had already played with that setting...it was like that originally, then someone told me to set my own ip so i did. but currently it is back to automatically configure. and still nothing.

however now, the computer is receiving packets too now...not very many but before it was nothing now it is 50 some.

Can you please take the laptop to your neighbors house and there, while being very near to the router, try to connect.

It could very well be that the signal is too weak.

If i do that and it connects, could i then take it home and still work??

I'm not sure about that, but I guess that you would be able to work then because the connection is already totally completed.

that didn't work either

but we tried some other stuff

we entered ip address manually and their dns number from the router

and it connects and packets are flying both ways
but then it disconnects

is there a setting blocking me now? they dont know anything about MAC filtering and either do i so i dont know if its that or something else