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Techie/network folks, riddle me this
Feb. 6th, 2009 09:46 amSo yesterday morning I was surfing the net a little and everything was fine. I came home, woke the computer up and suddenly it can't connect to the wireless network. It sees the network, but claims limited/no connectivity; if you look at the status of the connection, packets aren't being sent or received. If I try to disconnect and manually reconnect to the network, it's always a failed connection, then it goes back to the limited/no connectivity thing. (In terms of icons, this gives me the regular "you're connected" icon with a little yellow "HO SHIT, NO YOU'RE NOT" thing on top of it, as opposed to the grayed-out icon of when you're truly not connected to any network.)
I called my landlord (who lives upstairs) and as of this morning, the network's been working fine for him. He suggested the problem is with my computer, but I really doubt that, considering no changes were made to my computer (I mean, it was sleeping all day) and this sort of thing has happened before.
I suggested he reset the router to see if that helps and call the cable company if it doesn't, but you guys tell me for peace of mind—is there anything else I can try on my end? I'm running Vista Ultimate, which normally doesn't act hinky or anything.
It was actually sort of nice to have a peaceful evening of cleaning and reading instead of doing computery thing, but I'm going to have to cut a bitch if this bullshit continues through the weekend.
ETA: I forgot to mention it, but while I didn't think to cross-check last night, every other time this has happened, my old XP desktop has been unable to connect either.
I called my landlord (who lives upstairs) and as of this morning, the network's been working fine for him. He suggested the problem is with my computer, but I really doubt that, considering no changes were made to my computer (I mean, it was sleeping all day) and this sort of thing has happened before.
I suggested he reset the router to see if that helps and call the cable company if it doesn't, but you guys tell me for peace of mind—is there anything else I can try on my end? I'm running Vista Ultimate, which normally doesn't act hinky or anything.
It was actually sort of nice to have a peaceful evening of cleaning and reading instead of doing computery thing, but I'm going to have to cut a bitch if this bullshit continues through the weekend.
ETA: I forgot to mention it, but while I didn't think to cross-check last night, every other time this has happened, my old XP desktop has been unable to connect either.
