Hi every one. This is a brief story of something that happened to me a couple days ago. I have a ze4400 laptop, and a 2Wire router, wich can be accessed by USB, ethernet and wireless connections. I first connected my lap to the router usin ethernet and configured everything to work like that, I found the router registered my lap's name. I did so, because I couldn't get my lap to detect the router wireless signal. So I did this:

1-Downloaded the newest driver. Didn't solve it
2- Downloaded a tool to manage the wireless connectio. Finally my lap detected the router's signal!!
3- Now I found I couldn't use the connection

I changed the channel, changed signal strenght, changed as many parameters as I could in desperation.

Just about being defeated I tried one last thing. Changed the name of the computer. I didn't know and guessed it could be of importance, but suddenly I was checking my email and all that things using my wireless connection

I found that in no tutorial or guide. I find that kinda weird. Someone knows where I could find something that explains that??

When you say do you mean your laptop was connected to the router via wireless but cannot access to the internet or completely not connected to the router at all?

It sounds like your laptop was not renewing or resolving IP from your router. Have you tried accessing Network Connections > double click your network > Support tab > Repair button?

Another way is to ping your router, i.e. command prompt > ping 192.168.1.1 (or whatever your router's IP address) and see if it returns with a time value. You can manually reset your IP address of your machine by Command prompt > ipconfig /release then ipconfig /renew.

Maybe you didn't configured well your computer at the first time of something went wrong, something similar happened to me, but it was about the netcard (long story).

This post has been edited by PyramidHead777: Apr 11 2006, 03:00 PM

I don't understand your question. Is your problem solved and you are asking why does it happen this way, or your problem is unsolved.

Also, what is your 2Wire modem/router model number?

I had the same problem with the same modem my lapop never find the wireless connection, I has used wireless on it once and it never worked after :S so I don't really understand I rang up bt to use it that one time but then it never worked after that phone call?! I don't know the ip website address to get the configuration page up.

-reply by charlotte