Cannot connect to other wireless networks

I need help. Everytime I take my laptop out of the house and try connecting
to wi-fi somewhere I cannot. It tells me that I am connected but when I
click on internet explorer and get "cannot display page." Is there a setting
that I have wrong or something? I don't know what to do and AT&T wants me to
pay for help when I already give them a lot of money for their services a
month. I just tried recently at a hotel where they had wi-fi and 2 other
people in the room got connections and I didn't. If someone could tell me
what all my setting should be at step by step then I could run through and
make sure I have it all checked. I don't know what else to do. Please help.
Thank you in advance.

can you post a copy of ipconfig /all as a text file when you can NOT
connect. and one when you CAN connect

instructions are at:

http://digitalmediaphile.wordpress.c...t-text-output/





On Fri, 7 Nov 2008 16:25:03 -0800, Gator
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>I need help. Everytime I take my laptop out of the house and try connecting
>to wi-fi somewhere I cannot. It tells me that I am connected but when I
>click on internet explorer and get "cannot display page." Is there a setting
>that I have wrong or something? I don't know what to do and AT&T wants me to
>pay for help when I already give them a lot of money for their services a
>month. I just tried recently at a hotel where they had wi-fi and 2 other
>people in the room got connections and I didn't. If someone could tell me
>what all my setting should be at step by step then I could run through and
>make sure I have it all checked. I don't know what else to do. Please help.
>Thank you in advance.
--

Barb Bowman
MS-MVP
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/e...ts/bowman.mspx
http://blogs.digitalmediaphile.com/barb/
http://digitalmediaphile.wordpress.com

Gator wrote:
> I need help. Everytime I take my laptop out of the house and try connecting
> to wi-fi somewhere I cannot. It tells me that I am connected but when I
> click on internet explorer and get "cannot display page." Is there a setting
> that I have wrong or something? I don't know what to do and AT&T wants me to
> pay for help when I already give them a lot of money for their services a
> month. I just tried recently at a hotel where they had wi-fi and 2 other
> people in the room got connections and I didn't. If someone could tell me
> what all my setting should be at step by step then I could run through and
> make sure I have it all checked. I don't know what else to do. Please help.
> Thank you in advance.

Have you ever successfully connected using wifi *anywhere*? If not,
perhaps (a) your laptop does not have built-in wifi or (b) (more likely)
your laptop's built-in wifi adapter is turned off. Many laptops have
either a physical switch or a combination of keys to press to turn the
wifi on and off.

See the documentation that came with your laptop.

--
Lem -- MS-MVP

To the moon and back with 2K words of RAM and 36K words of ROM.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Guidance_Computer
http://history.nasa.gov/afj/compessay.htm

Hi
You probably using secure Wireless at Home.
Free Hot Spots usually are open.
Try to disable the Wireless Laptop security and see if it works.
Jack (MS, MVP-Networking)

"Gator" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:ACE58B2C-0B1B-4950-A8EA-(E-Mail Removed)...
>I need help. Everytime I take my laptop out of the house and try
>connecting
> to wi-fi somewhere I cannot. It tells me that I am connected but when I
> click on internet explorer and get "cannot display page." Is there a
> setting
> that I have wrong or something? I don't know what to do and AT&T wants me
> to
> pay for help when I already give them a lot of money for their services a
> month. I just tried recently at a hotel where they had wi-fi and 2 other
> people in the room got connections and I didn't. If someone could tell me
> what all my setting should be at step by step then I could run through and
> make sure I have it all checked. I don't know what else to do. Please
> help.
> Thank you in advance.

Can you check your settings against one of your friends that CAN connect at
the same access point? That should help provided you are using the same OS.
Good luck!

"Gator" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:ACE58B2C-0B1B-4950-A8EA-(E-Mail Removed)...
> I need help. Everytime I take my laptop out of the house and try
> connecting
> to wi-fi somewhere I cannot. It tells me that I am connected but when I
> click on internet explorer and get "cannot display page." Is there a
> setting
> that I have wrong or something? I don't know what to do and AT&T wants me
> to
> pay for help when I already give them a lot of money for their services a
> month. I just tried recently at a hotel where they had wi-fi and 2 other
> people in the room got connections and I didn't. If someone could tell me
> what all my setting should be at step by step then I could run through and
> make sure I have it all checked. I don't know what else to do. Please
> help.
> Thank you in advance.