Very Curious Wireless Issue

[Psycrow]

Folks,

I have a very strange wireless problem. I have wireless capability on my laptop and regularly access wireless networks at work and in my own home. However when I try to connect to wireless in my parents house I recieve a 169.254 address. If I plug in directly to his router instead of using wireless, it works fine. And his own laptop recieves a kosher IP address and he can browse without any issues, it just seems that my particular laptop has a particular problem with his wireless network and no other one. Any ideas anyone?

Jody

[mjc]

Do your parents happen to have any of the wireless security features enabled?

[Psycrow]

just a simple password, which I have entered. But if memory serves, this problem has preceded this password, which I setup for him

I'm an IT Manager dayjob, so the basics should have come to me already

[classicsoftware]

Once you connect to a wireless network, windows remembers the settings and automatically uses those settings to connect again. If you connected pre-security that would account for your problem. Please look under your wireless connections and disconnect from the network and then re-connect. You would be asked for the password and then you should be good to go.

p.s. Welcome to http://www.pcguide.com/ubb/pcgubb.gif forums....

[Psycrow]

I've done all that too. This problem has been around pre and post security. Obviously its not a bit deal or anything, its just really ticking me off, to be PC

[Psycrow]

I've actually found the answer to this in case anyone else has come across it, because it is a doozie. The problem raised its ugly head for me a second time, when I setup my mother-in-law's wireless router.

The security code I had setup for the wireless connection on both routhers contained the character @. This character seems to have caused the problem. When I changed the code on both networks and reconnected from my laptop, I got connected with a proper IP address.

This seems to only happen to certain Dell computers. I was using a D820, but both my father and mother in law in their respective houses were using Dell laptops also, just not D820s.

Anyway, just in case anyone else comes across it.

[classicsoftware]

Thank you very much....

[Cuc Tu]

wow, now that is stamina, dedication at its finest.