Connectivity

I have a Dell 1705 with a builtin card. I have never really used it for this
purpose until lately I want my wife to use it when gone from home. The
problem I am having is in the "Wireless Network Connection" box it staets
Windows cannot configure this connection. When I click on advanced settings I
do not have the third tab for Network Connections" in the properties box. The
only way I can get this to appear is to go into the Control Panel---Services
and scroll down to the Wireless Zero Config and click on start. Then I can go
back to the Properties box and there it is, the third tab where I click on
"use Windows to configure my wireless settings". Is there a way to just make
this a default so I don't have to go and change this everytime? My wife is
smart but this might be a little confusing. I went out today to a Pantera
store and tried to use their free WiFi and got excellent signals but couldn't
connect to my homepage. I think was because I didn't find these extra steps.
Any ideas or suggestions? Thanks

Remydobe wrote:
> I have a Dell 1705 with a builtin card. I have never really used it for this
> purpose until lately I want my wife to use it when gone from home. The
> problem I am having is in the "Wireless Network Connection" box it staets
> Windows cannot configure this connection. When I click on advanced settings I
> do not have the third tab for Network Connections" in the properties box. The
> only way I can get this to appear is to go into the Control Panel---Services
> and scroll down to the Wireless Zero Config and click on start. Then I can go
> back to the Properties box and there it is, the third tab where I click on
> "use Windows to configure my wireless settings". Is there a way to just make
> this a default so I don't have to go and change this everytime? My wife is
> smart but this might be a little confusing. I went out today to a Pantera
> store and tried to use their free WiFi and got excellent signals but couldn't
> connect to my homepage. I think was because I didn't find these extra steps.
> Any ideas or suggestions? Thanks

Sounds as if you have a non-Windows wireless configuration utility
active. You can use Windows or a 3rd party utility, but not both
together. See MVP Jack's page: http://www.ezlan.net/wzc.html

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Lem -- MS-MVP

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Guidance_Computer
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It does have a Broadcomm Utility and I did go in and turn off the "Let this
tool manage your networks". I am hoping this will work. It was driving me
crazy at the restaurant that I would get a strong signal but had limited or
no connectivity. What's with this? Something in my security I need to change?

"Lem" wrote:

> Remydobe wrote:
> > I have a Dell 1705 with a builtin card. I have never really used it for this
> > purpose until lately I want my wife to use it when gone from home. The
> > problem I am having is in the "Wireless Network Connection" box it staets
> > Windows cannot configure this connection. When I click on advanced settings I
> > do not have the third tab for Network Connections" in the properties box. The
> > only way I can get this to appear is to go into the Control Panel---Services
> > and scroll down to the Wireless Zero Config and click on start. Then I can go
> > back to the Properties box and there it is, the third tab where I click on
> > "use Windows to configure my wireless settings". Is there a way to just make
> > this a default so I don't have to go and change this everytime? My wife is
> > smart but this might be a little confusing. I went out today to a Pantera
> > store and tried to use their free WiFi and got excellent signals but couldn't
> > connect to my homepage. I think was because I didn't find these extra steps.
> > Any ideas or suggestions? Thanks
>
> Sounds as if you have a non-Windows wireless configuration utility
> active. You can use Windows or a 3rd party utility, but not both
> together. See MVP Jack's page: http://www.ezlan.net/wzc.html
>
> --
> 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
>

Remydobe wrote:
> It does have a Broadcomm Utility and I did go in and turn off the "Let this
> tool manage your networks". I am hoping this will work. It was driving me
> crazy at the restaurant that I would get a strong signal but had limited or
> no connectivity. What's with this? Something in my security I need to change?
>
> "Lem" wrote:
>
>> Remydobe wrote:
>>> I have a Dell 1705 with a builtin card. I have never really used it for this
>>> purpose until lately I want my wife to use it when gone from home. The
>>> problem I am having is in the "Wireless Network Connection" box it staets
>>> Windows cannot configure this connection. When I click on advanced settings I
>>> do not have the third tab for Network Connections" in the properties box. The
>>> only way I can get this to appear is to go into the Control Panel---Services
>>> and scroll down to the Wireless Zero Config and click on start. Then I can go
>>> back to the Properties box and there it is, the third tab where I click on
>>> "use Windows to configure my wireless settings". Is there a way to just make
>>> this a default so I don't have to go and change this everytime? My wife is
>>> smart but this might be a little confusing. I went out today to a Pantera
>>> store and tried to use their free WiFi and got excellent signals but couldn't
>>> connect to my homepage. I think was because I didn't find these extra steps.
>>> Any ideas or suggestions? Thanks
>> Sounds as if you have a non-Windows wireless configuration utility
>> active. You can use Windows or a 3rd party utility, but not both
>> together. See MVP Jack's page: http://www.ezlan.net/wzc.html
>>
>> --
>> Lem -- MS-MVP
>>

The Windows XP wifi "signal strength" indicator is not a reliable
indicator of "connection." The "limited or no connectivity" message
usually means that you haven't successfully authenticated to the access
point. That's often related to a security setting, but in your case it
may have been simply the Windows utility fighting the Broadcom utility.

--
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