[vox-tech] Wireless ethernet trobleshooting.

[Rod Roark]

Yeah, sounds like your friend just got free Internet access.  All you need 
to do is find the gateway IP.  :-)

Just kidding, of course.  But your friend has two problems, not one; the
other problem is security.

-- Rod
   http://www.sunsetsystems.com/

On Tuesday 22 January 2002 04:30 am, Jay Strauss wrote:
> 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?