WiFi issues

**fatbastard** · Posted: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 18:23:35 Post Subject: WiFi issues

Just to give you some background, I picked up a router and PCMCIA card for my sister Black Thursday of '05. Installed it and had no problems other than the occasional reboot of the router. That is until last spring, at that point the wifi stopped working and they were having problems connecting the desktop to the internet as well. So they by-passed the router and connected the desktop to teh internet directly.

A few months back I was over for dinner and took a look at it. The desktop would get an IP addy from teh router but I couldn't do anything. I even tried pinging the routers IP and nothing...I wass very confused, connected back to the modem and left. Later my sister told me that she enabled software in AOl that only allows communication through AOL.

So the next time I went over I brought my router and laptop. But after all my b!%@#ing about AOL she had uninstalled it or so she thought. Even though the uninstall program said there was nothing left, AOL was still "functional" I tried several things but was never able to make her router or mine work, but again if you direct connected it you could get online.

Yesterday I am there messing around again and decide to uninstall AOL for real. I went into all the AOL subfolders and looked for uninstall.exe files and ran them. This time it was gone. So I reinstalled AOL. Again desktop to modem was good but her router did nothing. I connected my laptop to the modem and it worked fine. Then I put my router in and the desktop worked and I could connect my laptop to it. I looked at the IP addys: her router is 192.168.1.1 mine was 192.168.0.1 and it looked like teh server they were connecting to was 192.168.1.44 or 47 so I thought there might be a conflict but I don't know enough about this stuff.

So last night I brough her router and mine back home. Both work flawlessly, so I decided I woudl give her mine and I would use hers, the only hurdle left was to get her laptop to connect to my router. Well, I was only able to get it to connect to the router twice. The router showed it was connected and the software controller on the laptop indicated internet available but it wouldn't open anything. I tried several settings and then it started saying it was connected to teh router but wass getting an IP that was way off. I also tried connecting her laptop right to the modem and it couldn't get an IP. When I brought her laptop home and powered it up, it connected to my network no problems, the only catch is AOL has to be open and connected.

Does this make sense to anyone? Could there be something in AOL that is fubaring this whole thing? I just don't get why it works at my place but not hers, granted they were purchased as set but that shouldn't matter at all. Any ideas?

**Modulok** · Posted: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 18:45:57 Post Subject:

Im a little confused...but did you try to reset her router with the small button on the back?

Also it might help posting the router's name and model.

**fatbastard** · Posted: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 18:59:32 Post Subject:

I tried reseting both routers each time I was there, that never did anything. They are both Netgear WGT624 routers hers is a Ver. 3 mine was a Ver 2.

**Modulok** · Posted: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 19:15:27 Post Subject:

ok, try the dell de-crapifier to remove any of the left behind AOL stuff.

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 19:18:12 Post Subject:

Hola FB. Sounds like fun! Are there special port settings AOL has set up in the router? AS in, is it guding traffic in a special way? Can you anything like that in the router? Doesn't seem likely, but who knows with AOL.

**fatbastard** · Posted: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 20:24:59 Post Subject:

I have no idea what the hell AOL does...all I know is opening IE actually opens AOL for you to log in so you can get to teh internet with IE. If it were blocking ports, wouldn't it still reliably connect to the router but maybe not get to the internet??? And why would it only connect to a V3 router and not the V2? This crap is driving me crazy...nothing works at her house but as soon as I boot it up here it is fine.

**fatbastard** · Posted: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 21:02:24 Post Subject:

So any ideas on what I could try?

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 21:46:37 Post Subject:

Is there an advanced page? Or a virtual server page in there? I dunno what the deal is.

Routers are cheap, tell her to get a new one... Laughing

T-shirt · Posted: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 07:43:50 Post Subject:

Who is her ? DSL? cable? fios?
does she have kids/others that need access restrictions?
The 2 AOL settings that might cause problems (under settings(might be call preferences) are parental controls (sets time and access levels for secondry screennames) or Internet access controls (controls external browser usage) The one other thing could be a third party program AOL pushed at one time called NETWORK MAGIC which opens and closes ports on the router (uninstall this)
also on install AOL may ask to be the default browser (not recommended, forces all connection through their proxy/PPP tunnel)
If you do this it maybe call network magic or Port Magic (different versions, slightly differnt programs) either should uninstall from the control panel.
Newest AOL version AOL 9.0 VR (vista ready) should detect and cleanup old AOL settings and software on install and then uninstall cleanly if not needed.

BeerCheeze · Posted: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 10:25:02 Post Subject:

Try removing all the network card drivers, and reinstalling them.