LAN woes

Greetings All

If you know of a more appropriate NG please let me know I'll gladly post
there. Meanwhile............

Daughter has a Dell notebook running WXP Home SP2. Connects just fine at
home with either cable or wireless through a Linksys wireless router. Also
took it over to a neighbors house, and it picked up his internet just fine
with a lan cable. (letting it obtain DNS and IP address automatically)

Her dorm connection went just fine last fall, first power up and she was in
the university's system.

She's moved to a sorority, and no dice. The "network" person rebooted the
houses' router when she moved in. That's about the extent of her knowledge
of networking.
My daughter doesn't like fiddling, and being 300 miles from home, and trying
to trouble shoot over the phone sucks.

We've tried: turning off windows firewall, running connection wizard a
couple times, letting it try to bridge it.

I've asked her to get the router's IP address and we'll try to set up a
static address, but she's disgusted, and doesn't want to mess with it any
more. Plus I doubt the "network" sister could find the settings anyway.
SIGH.

Think I'm gonna end up just hiring someone to do it, but would like to get
her to try the hard settings first. Plus me trying to explain how to do it
is tough too, I'm not good with explanations.

Any easy ideas I might try and get her coaxed into humoring me with; and
like Denzel Washington once said "Explain it to me like a 6 year old" so I
could walk them through it. Too easy to get frustrated when working with
your own kids.

Thanks

Mark

pheasant wrote:
> Greetings All
>
> If you know of a more appropriate NG please let me know I'll gladly post
> there. Meanwhile............
>
> Daughter has a Dell notebook running WXP Home SP2. Connects just fine at
> home with either cable or wireless through a Linksys wireless router. Also
> took it over to a neighbors house, and it picked up his internet just fine
> with a lan cable. (letting it obtain DNS and IP address automatically)
>
> Her dorm connection went just fine last fall, first power up and she was in
> the university's system.
>
> She's moved to a sorority, and no dice. The "network" person rebooted the
> houses' router when she moved in. That's about the extent of her knowledge
> of networking.
> My daughter doesn't like fiddling, and being 300 miles from home, and trying
> to trouble shoot over the phone sucks.
>
> We've tried: turning off windows firewall, running connection wizard a
> couple times, letting it try to bridge it.
>
> I've asked her to get the router's IP address and we'll try to set up a
> static address, but she's disgusted, and doesn't want to mess with it any
> more. Plus I doubt the "network" sister could find the settings anyway.
> SIGH.
>
> Think I'm gonna end up just hiring someone to do it, but would like to get
> her to try the hard settings first. Plus me trying to explain how to do it
> is tough too, I'm not good with explanations.
>
> Any easy ideas I might try and get her coaxed into humoring me with; and
> like Denzel Washington once said "Explain it to me like a 6 year old" so I
> could walk them through it. Too easy to get frustrated when working with
> your own kids.
>
> Thanks
>
> Mark
>
>
>
>
>


she is at university ?! she should have a little more brain capacity
than a 6 year old, let her solve her own problems.

She might need to get a Netware Client from the university, schools even
high schools have a NASTY habit of using netware.
"Ali Babba" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:csdu5s$igc$(E-Mail Removed)...
> pheasant wrote:
> > Greetings All
> >
> > If you know of a more appropriate NG please let me know I'll gladly post
> > there. Meanwhile............
> >
> > Daughter has a Dell notebook running WXP Home SP2. Connects just fine
at
> > home with either cable or wireless through a Linksys wireless router.
Also
> > took it over to a neighbors house, and it picked up his internet just
fine
> > with a lan cable. (letting it obtain DNS and IP address automatically)
> >
> > Her dorm connection went just fine last fall, first power up and she was
in
> > the university's system.
> >
> > She's moved to a sorority, and no dice. The "network" person rebooted
the
> > houses' router when she moved in. That's about the extent of her
knowledge
> > of networking.
> > My daughter doesn't like fiddling, and being 300 miles from home, and
trying
> > to trouble shoot over the phone sucks.
> >
> > We've tried: turning off windows firewall, running connection wizard a
> > couple times, letting it try to bridge it.
> >
> > I've asked her to get the router's IP address and we'll try to set up a
> > static address, but she's disgusted, and doesn't want to mess with it
any
> > more. Plus I doubt the "network" sister could find the settings anyway.
> > SIGH.
> >
> > Think I'm gonna end up just hiring someone to do it, but would like to
get
> > her to try the hard settings first. Plus me trying to explain how to do
it
> > is tough too, I'm not good with explanations.
> >
> > Any easy ideas I might try and get her coaxed into humoring me with; and
> > like Denzel Washington once said "Explain it to me like a 6 year old" so
I
> > could walk them through it. Too easy to get frustrated when working
with
> > your own kids.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Mark
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
> she is at university ?! she should have a little more brain capacity
> than a 6 year old, let her solve her own problems.

>
> Think I'm gonna end up just hiring someone to do it, but would like to
> get her to try the hard settings first. Plus me trying to explain how
> to do it is tough too, I'm not good with explanations.

You should hire someone and be done with it.

Duane

If the wireless connection is enabled, there should be an icon on the
right side of the Task Bar. In SP2 if it's not connected it will have a
little red "x" on the lower right side of the icon.

Put the mouse pointer over the Wireless icon and do a right click.
There should be an option to search for wireless connections and then
after it searches it will display any connections it can find. If she
clicks on the available connections and cannot establish a connection,
then she should contact the schools IM (Information Management)
Department for assistance. I have never encountered a college where an
IM would not help the students with problems like this!


pheasant wrote:

> Greetings All
>
> If you know of a more appropriate NG please let me know I'll gladly post
> there. Meanwhile............
>
> Daughter has a Dell notebook running WXP Home SP2. Connects just fine at
> home with either cable or wireless through a Linksys wireless router. Also
> took it over to a neighbors house, and it picked up his internet just fine
> with a lan cable. (letting it obtain DNS and IP address automatically)
>
> Her dorm connection went just fine last fall, first power up and she was in
> the university's system.
>
> She's moved to a sorority, and no dice. The "network" person rebooted the
> houses' router when she moved in. That's about the extent of her knowledge
> of networking.
> My daughter doesn't like fiddling, and being 300 miles from home, and trying
> to trouble shoot over the phone sucks.
>
> We've tried: turning off windows firewall, running connection wizard a
> couple times, letting it try to bridge it.
>
> I've asked her to get the router's IP address and we'll try to set up a
> static address, but she's disgusted, and doesn't want to mess with it any
> more. Plus I doubt the "network" sister could find the settings anyway.
> SIGH.
>
> Think I'm gonna end up just hiring someone to do it, but would like to get
> her to try the hard settings first. Plus me trying to explain how to do it
> is tough too, I'm not good with explanations.
>
> Any easy ideas I might try and get her coaxed into humoring me with; and
> like Denzel Washington once said "Explain it to me like a 6 year old" so I
> could walk them through it. Too easy to get frustrated when working with
> your own kids.
>
> Thanks
>
> Mark
>
>
>
>
>

"Ali Babba" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:csdu5s$igc$(E-Mail Removed)...

> she is at university ?! she should have a little more brain capacity
> than a 6 year old, let her solve her own problems.

Not a parent are you.

pheasant wrote:

> "Ali Babba" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:csdu5s$igc$(E-Mail Removed)...
>
>
>>she is at university ?! she should have a little more brain capacity
>>than a 6 year old, let her solve her own problems.
>
>
> Not a parent are you.
>
>

He/She/It sounds like a High School dropout!

Of course it could also be blamed on the weather in North Dakota.

His/Her/Its brain isn't functioning at full speed in the cold weather!!!

Ali Babba wrote:

>
> she is at university ?! she should have a little more brain capacity
> than a 6 year old, let her solve her own problems.

You must not be native Schweiz.

My apologies for the poor 'advice' you've had from most of the other
replies. The best advice was from the poster who suggested asking the uni
IT dept for support, I'm sure that they'd be keen to help. If not, then the
following links may be helpful in solving the problem (but may not
necessarily satisfy the 6-year-old criterion).
http://www.ezlan.net/
http://www.careyholzman.com/netfixes.htm

Hope this helps



"pheasant" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Greetings All
>
> If you know of a more appropriate NG please let me know I'll gladly post
> there. Meanwhile............
>
> Daughter has a Dell notebook running WXP Home SP2. Connects just fine at
> home with either cable or wireless through a Linksys wireless router.
> Also took it over to a neighbors house, and it picked up his internet just
> fine with a lan cable. (letting it obtain DNS and IP address
> automatically)
>
> Her dorm connection went just fine last fall, first power up and she was
> in the university's system.
>
> She's moved to a sorority, and no dice. The "network" person rebooted the
> houses' router when she moved in. That's about the extent of her
> knowledge of networking.
> My daughter doesn't like fiddling, and being 300 miles from home, and
> trying to trouble shoot over the phone sucks.
>
> We've tried: turning off windows firewall, running connection wizard a
> couple times, letting it try to bridge it.
>
> I've asked her to get the router's IP address and we'll try to set up a
> static address, but she's disgusted, and doesn't want to mess with it any
> more. Plus I doubt the "network" sister could find the settings anyway.
> SIGH.
>
> Think I'm gonna end up just hiring someone to do it, but would like to get
> her to try the hard settings first. Plus me trying to explain how to do
> it is tough too, I'm not good with explanations.
>
> Any easy ideas I might try and get her coaxed into humoring me with; and
> like Denzel Washington once said "Explain it to me like a 6 year old" so I
> could walk them through it. Too easy to get frustrated when working with
> your own kids.
>
> Thanks
>
> Mark
>
>
>
>
>

Dee wrote:

> Ali Babba wrote:
>
>>
>> she is at university ?! she should have a little more brain capacity
>> than a 6 year old, let her solve her own problems.
>
>
> You must not be native Schweiz.
>

and you should know that North Dakota is not in Switserland