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Wireless works ok at home but nowhere else

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greendog - Sep 30, 2008 at 07:54 AM
 greendog - Oct 6, 2008 at 05:40 AM
Hello, I have a problem with wireless access.

I have a wireless at home which works fine but if I try to access the internet through any other wireless I get "webpage cannot be displayed message" in Internet Explorer and similar in Firefox.

The connection is always good and I have tried:

in cmd ping news.google.com which led to an error message of some kind
and then ping 74.125.19.104 which produced a message quoting packages sent etc.

Also, cannot remember where but when trying to solve this I came across a dnserror message.

I am at a loss. Can anybody help Please???????

Thanks

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xpcman
Oct 5, 2008 at 10:04 PM
to use wireless away from your default connection at home you need to get the wireless card to SCAN for active access points - then you need to select the one you want and supply the needed key/password.

Have you done this?
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greendog
Oct 6, 2008 at 05:40 AM
Hi xpcman, I go via the wireless icon at bottom of screen to view available wireless networks, choose the one I want and enter passwords as requested, for example in Costa's they give you a code to enter. I thought that's all you need to do? Thanks for trying to help.
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