Problems with f/w in wireless

Hi, all!

I had some problems with wireless few days ago but before that worked nice,
so I checked firewall ( XPSP2 ) and found that it's off. I switched it on
and... voila IE started to work.
Yesterday I desided to set router as secured and another time had no
internet, so I went to firewall and saw there no IE in exceptions list, when
I added IE to exceptions list, I started to serf again with secured wireless
network.
So my question: is it exist some connection between security options of WSZ
and f/w so that did work without security set and OTOH why that did work
without f/w for non-secure and return to work when f/w was enabled without
IE set in exceptions?
TIA
Arkady

Just opened laptop and automatically connected to network ( one of
neighbour's ) and entered IE , when I saw that it's not mine I reconnected
to my secured network but alas... no internet.
I went to f/w and removed IE from exceptions list. After OK I opened IE and
....wow I have internet back.

Arkady



"Arkady Frenkel" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Hi, all!
>
> I had some problems with wireless few days ago but before that worked
> nice, so I checked firewall ( XPSP2 ) and found that it's off. I switched
> it on and... voila IE started to work.
> Yesterday I desided to set router as secured and another time had no
> internet, so I went to firewall and saw there no IE in exceptions list,
> when I added IE to exceptions list, I started to serf again with secured
> wireless network.
> So my question: is it exist some connection between security options of
> WSZ and f/w so that did work without security set and OTOH why that did
> work without f/w for non-secure and return to work when f/w was enabled
> without IE set in exceptions?
> TIA
> Arkady
>
>
>