Access Point connects to internet on labtop Mac, but not desktop windows!

I recently bought a wireless-g access point to connect to my router to
have wireless internet. Right away my labtop mac picked up the access
point's wireless internet. It works fine in using it now to write this.
But when I went to set it up with my desktop windows XP it connected and
setup with the access point. But it goes back and forth between being
connected and not connected. Along with that when it is connected to
the access point it says my adapter(linksys wireless-g adapter) is
connented but there is no internet connected to my router/accesspoint.
but there is internet connected!because my labtop is working fine with
the wireless access point!! I have no clue what to do. I already called
the company for linksys, but I dont know!


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azurecoyote <(E-Mail Removed)> hath wroth:

>I recently bought a wireless-g access point to connect to my router to
>have wireless internet. Right away my labtop mac picked up the access
>point's wireless internet. It works fine in using it now to write this.
>But when I went to set it up with my desktop windows XP it connected and
>setup with the access point. But it goes back and forth between being
>connected and not connected. Along with that when it is connected to
>the access point it says my adapter(linksys wireless-g adapter) is
>connented but there is no internet connected to my router/accesspoint.
>but there is internet connected!because my labtop is working fine with
>the wireless access point!! I have no clue what to do. I already called
>the company for linksys, but I dont know!

Hmmm... No models, no numbers, no error messages... Ok, you get a bad
guess and a general answer.

My guess(tm) is that you're using WEP. WEP has a problem converting
from the ASCII encryption key to the Hex equivalent. It's not a bug.
If you use the Hex key, instead of the ASCII key on your Windoze
machine, it will work.

However, you should be using WPA-Personal, instead of WEP. WEP can be
cracked in minutes and is next to useless for encryption.

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azurecoyote <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
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> I recently bought a wireless-g access point to connect to my router to
> have wireless internet. Right away my labtop mac picked up the access
> point's wireless internet. It works fine in using it now to write this.
> But when I went to set it up with my desktop windows XP it connected and
> setup with the access point. But it goes back and forth between being
> connected and not connected. Along with that when it is connected to
> the access point it says my adapter(linksys wireless-g adapter) is
> connented but there is no internet connected to my router/accesspoint.
> but there is internet connected!because my labtop is working fine with
> the wireless access point!! I have no clue what to do. I already called
> the company for linksys, but I dont know!

Did you by any chance have both your wired and the wireless connected to
your desktop at the same time when this happened?


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> azurecoyote <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
> news:(E-Mail Removed):
>
>> I recently bought a wireless-g access point to connect to my router to
>> have wireless internet. Right away my labtop mac picked up the access
>> point's wireless internet. It works fine in using it now to write this.
>> But when I went to set it up with my desktop windows XP it connected and
>> setup with the access point. But it goes back and forth between being
>> connected and not connected. Along with that when it is connected to
>> the access point it says my adapter(linksys wireless-g adapter) is
>> connented but there is no internet connected to my router/accesspoint.
>> but there is internet connected!because my labtop is working fine with
>> the wireless access point!! I have no clue what to do. I already called
>> the company for linksys, but I dont know!
>
> Did you by any chance have both your wired and the wireless connected to
> your desktop at the same time when this happened?
>
>
> --
> - You like Billie Holiday?
> - I love him.
>
> Clueless

I want to know where I can get one of those LABtops. But seriously I think
he is connecting wirelessly with the desktop as well. I don't know why
unless
it is not close to the Access Point. APs also tend to not have a built-in
switch
so the one port goes right into the router. But a little 4 port switch would
solve that problem right quick.

I wonder what the IP Address is on this XP machine with Linksys G Adaptor
when it is connected, if any? It might be correct (earlier post) about a WEP
key problem. I'd delete the AP from the Preferred Networks list in XP and
connect again using the correct key. Also would use WPA instead of WEP
if at all possible.

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Alan Spicer