Strong Signal Cannot Find Server

OK, here's the deal...

I have read many suggestions to problems similar to this, but none have
worked. Matbe it's because the solutions werent specific to my machine.
Any help would be appreciated:

I am running XP home on my desktop and XP Pro on my notebook. I
recently added a WRT54G for wireless access and am having trouble with
my notebook. I have configured the router and everything seems to be
working fine. My notebook always has a signal strength of 'Excellent'.
The problem is that I cannot access any web pages. I continually get
'Cannot find server or DNS error' messages. I can successfully ping the
router, so I know that there is a connection there. My feeble attempt
at a diagnosis is that it is not a connection problem but a settings
problem on the notebook. Is there anyone that can help. This seems to
be a fairly common question in this group. One would imply that there
is an easy solution right???

<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> OK, here's the deal...
>
> I have read many suggestions to problems similar to this, but none have
> worked. Matbe it's because the solutions werent specific to my machine.
> Any help would be appreciated:
>
> I am running XP home on my desktop and XP Pro on my notebook. I
> recently added a WRT54G for wireless access and am having trouble with
> my notebook. I have configured the router and everything seems to be
> working fine. My notebook always has a signal strength of 'Excellent'.
> The problem is that I cannot access any web pages. I continually get
> 'Cannot find server or DNS error' messages. I can successfully ping the
> router, so I know that there is a connection there. My feeble attempt
> at a diagnosis is that it is not a connection problem but a settings
> problem on the notebook. Is there anyone that can help. This seems to
> be a fairly common question in this group. One would imply that there
> is an easy solution right???

Incorrect proxy set up perhaps?

(E-Mail Removed) wrote:
> OK, here's the deal...
>
> I have read many suggestions to problems similar to this, but none have
> worked. Matbe it's because the solutions werent specific to my machine.
> Any help would be appreciated:
>
> I am running XP home on my desktop and XP Pro on my notebook. I
> recently added a WRT54G for wireless access and am having trouble with
> my notebook. I have configured the router and everything seems to be
> working fine. My notebook always has a signal strength of 'Excellent'.
> The problem is that I cannot access any web pages. I continually get
> 'Cannot find server or DNS error' messages. I can successfully ping the
> router, so I know that there is a connection there. My feeble attempt
> at a diagnosis is that it is not a connection problem but a settings
> problem on the notebook. Is there anyone that can help. This seems to
> be a fairly common question in this group. One would imply that there
> is an easy solution right???
>

It is most likely a DNS problem. Are you using DHCP (dynamic IP addresses), or do you have a static IP?

Open a command prompt window, type in the command 'ipconfig /all' and post the results here.

Larry

I am using DHCP. All settings are the same as my desktop aside from the
ip address (which ends in 101 instead of 100)

Also, I tried to connect the notebook directly and it still wouldn't
load any pages. The notebook belongs to my school district (I am a
teacher) and worked with my home router at one point. Then something
went horribly wrong...


Larry Finger wrote:
> (E-Mail Removed) wrote:
> > OK, here's the deal...
> >
> > I have read many suggestions to problems similar to this, but none have
> > worked. Matbe it's because the solutions werent specific to my machine.
> > Any help would be appreciated:
> >
> > I am running XP home on my desktop and XP Pro on my notebook. I
> > recently added a WRT54G for wireless access and am having trouble with
> > my notebook. I have configured the router and everything seems to be
> > working fine. My notebook always has a signal strength of 'Excellent'.
> > The problem is that I cannot access any web pages. I continually get
> > 'Cannot find server or DNS error' messages. I can successfully ping the
> > router, so I know that there is a connection there. My feeble attempt
> > at a diagnosis is that it is not a connection problem but a settings
> > problem on the notebook. Is there anyone that can help. This seems to
> > be a fairly common question in this group. One would imply that there
> > is an easy solution right???
> >
>
> It is most likely a DNS problem. Are you using DHCP (dynamic IP addresses), or do you have a static IP?
>
> Open a command prompt window, type in the command 'ipconfig /all' and post the results here.
>
> Larry

I am using DHCP. All settings are the same as my desktop aside from the
ip address (which ends in 101 instead of 100)

Also, I tried to connect the notebook directly and it still wouldn't
load any pages. The notebook belongs to my school district (I am a
teacher) and worked with my home router at one point. Then something
went horribly wrong...


Larry Finger wrote:
> (E-Mail Removed) wrote:
> > OK, here's the deal...
> >
> > I have read many suggestions to problems similar to this, but none have
> > worked. Matbe it's because the solutions werent specific to my machine.
> > Any help would be appreciated:
> >
> > I am running XP home on my desktop and XP Pro on my notebook. I
> > recently added a WRT54G for wireless access and am having trouble with
> > my notebook. I have configured the router and everything seems to be
> > working fine. My notebook always has a signal strength of 'Excellent'.
> > The problem is that I cannot access any web pages. I continually get
> > 'Cannot find server or DNS error' messages. I can successfully ping the
> > router, so I know that there is a connection there. My feeble attempt
> > at a diagnosis is that it is not a connection problem but a settings
> > problem on the notebook. Is there anyone that can help. This seems to
> > be a fairly common question in this group. One would imply that there
> > is an easy solution right???
> >
>
> It is most likely a DNS problem. Are you using DHCP (dynamic IP addresses), or do you have a static IP?
>
> Open a command prompt window, type in the command 'ipconfig /all' and post the results here.
>
> Larry

(E-Mail Removed) wrote:
> I am using DHCP. All settings are the same as my desktop aside from
> the ip address (which ends in 101 instead of 100)
>
> Also, I tried to connect the notebook directly and it still wouldn't
> load any pages. The notebook belongs to my school district (I am a
> teacher) and worked with my home router at one point. Then something
> went horribly wrong...
>

Oh piece of cake then.. Just have one of your students fix it in few
seconds, and buy them a bag of chips (or cupcakes if you actually want to
give them cake for a piece of cake)....

In article <(E-Mail Removed). com>, (E-Mail Removed) wrote:

>I am running XP home on my desktop and XP Pro on my notebook. I
>recently added a WRT54G for wireless access and am having trouble with
>my notebook

Just as an easy experiment: what happens when you briefly disable Windows
firewall?

Art

many schools use a proxy server, for filtering, make sure proxy server is
set to none... or whatever your ISP wants.


(E-Mail Removed) wrote:
> I am using DHCP. All settings are the same as my desktop aside from
> the ip address (which ends in 101 instead of 100)
>
> Also, I tried to connect the notebook directly and it still wouldn't
> load any pages. The notebook belongs to my school district (I am a
> teacher) and worked with my home router at one point. Then something
> went horribly wrong...
>
>
> Larry Finger wrote:
>> (E-Mail Removed) wrote:
>>> OK, here's the deal...
>>>
>>> I have read many suggestions to problems similar to this, but none
>>> have worked. Matbe it's because the solutions werent specific to my
>>> machine. Any help would be appreciated:
>>>
>>> I am running XP home on my desktop and XP Pro on my notebook. I
>>> recently added a WRT54G for wireless access and am having trouble
>>> with my notebook. I have configured the router and everything seems
>>> to be working fine. My notebook always has a signal strength of
>>> 'Excellent'. The problem is that I cannot access any web pages. I
>>> continually get 'Cannot find server or DNS error' messages. I can
>>> successfully ping the router, so I know that there is a connection
>>> there. My feeble attempt at a diagnosis is that it is not a
>>> connection problem but a settings problem on the notebook. Is there
>>> anyone that can help. This seems to be a fairly common question in
>>> this group. One would imply that there is an easy solution right???
>>>
>>
>> It is most likely a DNS problem. Are you using DHCP (dynamic IP
>> addresses), or do you have a static IP?
>>
>> Open a command prompt window, type in the command 'ipconfig /all'
>> and post the results here.
>>
>> Larry

I have disabled the proxy which is nromally used, I changed this
setting in the LAN settings under Internet options. And the firewall
settings are off due to the fact that the district servers filter all
internet traffic. This one I set under 'Internet Connection Firewall'
under the Advanced tab of my wireless network connection window.It
doesn't seem to be either of them. Am I changing these settings in the
right places? I installed Firefox and am experiencing the same
problems.


lars wrote:
> many schools use a proxy server, for filtering, make sure proxy server is
> set to none... or whatever your ISP wants.
>
>
> (E-Mail Removed) wrote:
> > I am using DHCP. All settings are the same as my desktop aside from
> > the ip address (which ends in 101 instead of 100)
> >
> > Also, I tried to connect the notebook directly and it still wouldn't
> > load any pages. The notebook belongs to my school district (I am a
> > teacher) and worked with my home router at one point. Then something
> > went horribly wrong...
> >
> >
> > Larry Finger wrote:
> >> (E-Mail Removed) wrote:
> >>> OK, here's the deal...
> >>>
> >>> I have read many suggestions to problems similar to this, but none
> >>> have worked. Matbe it's because the solutions werent specific to my
> >>> machine. Any help would be appreciated:
> >>>
> >>> I am running XP home on my desktop and XP Pro on my notebook. I
> >>> recently added a WRT54G for wireless access and am having trouble
> >>> with my notebook. I have configured the router and everything seems
> >>> to be working fine. My notebook always has a signal strength of
> >>> 'Excellent'. The problem is that I cannot access any web pages. I
> >>> continually get 'Cannot find server or DNS error' messages. I can
> >>> successfully ping the router, so I know that there is a connection
> >>> there. My feeble attempt at a diagnosis is that it is not a
> >>> connection problem but a settings problem on the notebook. Is there
> >>> anyone that can help. This seems to be a fairly common question in
> >>> this group. One would imply that there is an easy solution right???
> >>>
> >>
> >> It is most likely a DNS problem. Are you using DHCP (dynamic IP
> >> addresses), or do you have a static IP?
> >>
> >> Open a command prompt window, type in the command 'ipconfig /all'
> >> and post the results here.
> >>
> >> Larry

<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> OK, here's the deal...
>
> I have read many suggestions to problems similar to this, but none have
> worked. Matbe it's because the solutions werent specific to my machine.
> Any help would be appreciated:
>
> I am running XP home on my desktop and XP Pro on my notebook. I
> recently added a WRT54G for wireless access

When you say you "added a WRT54G for wireless access" do you mean you
replaced an existing router with the WRT54G or added this as an additional
router?