[vox-tech] Wireless ethernet trobleshooting.

[Jay Strauss]

It used to work, now it doesn't?

Can you move a wireless computer into the room with the transmitter (just
for test) and see if you get a signal?

Is it possible someone (maybe the people next door) setup a wireless network
too.

Jay


----- Original Message -----
From: "Ken Bloom" <kabloom@ucdavis.edu>
To: <vox-tech@lists.lugod.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2002 2:04 AM
Subject: [vox-tech] Wireless ethernet trobleshooting.


> At my friends' house, they have a DSL setup for 10 computers using
wireless
> ethernet, with an additional computer connected to the router by means of
an
> ethernet cable (because that computer is in the same room as the router).
>
> They are currently having internet trouble and the wireless computers
cannot
> connect to the internet, but the wired one can. The router reports that it
> is supposed to give out (by DHCP) IP addresses in the 192.168.1.0/24
range,
> but after I released and renewed the DHCP lease for one of the wireless
> computers, it reported that it had been assigned the IP address
> 169.254.183.13 (which obviously means that the router in question didn't
> assign the DHCP lease). The wired computer recieved the IP address
> 192.168.1.100, and its internet works correctly.
>
> Knowing this, the problem must be with the wireless itself. Is there any
way
> to further diagnose what the problem with their connection might be?
>
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