Connected to wifi, but can't browse

Brian,

You're the BEST!. Thanks for figuring out and posting this fix!!

Thanks so very much Brian. I called acer a couple of times and they made me do this and that and download. I had to call back and do it again, and then they just sent me a new battery, and it still would not connect. I just tried your fix and it works great. I feel like I have a new computer. Now I have to return the battery and get my account credited the $80.00 dollars. What a crazy mess these people are.

Thank You again your a lifesaver

Brian,

Nothing personal but I love you. What do you do for a living? Are you in tech support. I have spent so much time with rude Verizon people who knew nothing. This is INSANELY simple yet incredibly far fetched. Here's what I was facing!!!!!..... MY Acer Netbook worked EVERYWHERE, even on another Verizon FIOS location. Tons of public library wifis, even my car dealership waiting room and over in Ireland, even at restaurants there.

THEN I get to this place I just moved into!!!!!!! nada. kept falling off the net. I think the issue was THIS Verizon FIOS router was a different model than the other one and it's JUST a fraction of a second slower than the other routers and bango! Connection timing out. Wifi connected, couldn't get on net


Who would have THUNK.

Why don't I ever get someone like you at any of the customer support places, huh?

Are you a techie? How did you figure this out????

You and those like you, deserve the world. They (all customer service depts) could eliminate half their people if they would monitor these forums and accumulate solutions instead of telling me to shut off all my firewalls and other nonsense

Brian,
YOU ROCK!! I have been beating my head against the wall for a week! Thanks, man.

Brian,

YOU'RE THE BEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I've been having this problem with the Verizon Fios router for months and it wasn't until I read your post 20 minutes ago that I was FINALLY able to stay connected with my Acer Aspire One!

You should set up a paypal account on this site, so those of us that have been saved can send you some dough for your technical support. You've certainly gave me more assistance than Acer and Verizon combined.

Happy Holidays and thanks again!!!

Sondra

Brian's tip to turn off the power save mode of the wi-fi card was most helpful

I also encountered an additional problem as I was attempting to connect to WEP enabled router with 128-bit encryption. Even though the utility would accept my key, the Aspire One could not get an IP address.

Poking around a bit more I found that the default Network Authentication setting was Opne and it's need to set to Shared for encrypted networks.

Once I did that along with Brian's suggestion, I was in business.

Wireless Network Connection Properties/Wireless Networks/(select your wireless network) Properties/Network Authentication - select Shared

You can also enter your WEP keys at this point.

Brian - Thank you for the solution, I have spent the entire weekend trying to fix my mother-in-laws MSI netbook. I googled many threads until I found this one. This must be an anomaly with netbooks, apparently I lost the connection after a reboot but I toggled back and forth with the power save option as a work around. I will continue to search for long term solution. Thanks again.

at the risk of being redundant, thanks a lot brian. I have an Asus Eee PC and it this strategy worked for me also. Must be a problem across brands. Thanks again.

Thanks Brian! Your advice has saved me having another depressing phone call to various customer service centres. You didn't create the bug yourself to get all this adulation, did you?!!
Cheers,
J

when I went to the advance tab I didnt see power management what do I do

This solution does not work with my Vista Acer Aspire 1. Help

My wife was having a Valentine's Day breakdown from having to write a world lit paper about existentialism in an Egyptian play The Fate of a CockRoach complaining again that our Verizon wireless connection would not allow her to browse the internet without waiting all the time. Essentially useless. Very frustrating. So I googled fios problems acer network wireless and eventually found this forum with lots of complaints and then your solution.

We tried it and WOW, it worked!

Thanks for saving my wife's Valentine's Day evening. Now if only we could find something to inspire her on this crazy paper topic! [nontraditional student, lost big pharma analytical chem job a year ago, needs this stupid course for a Masters Teaching makeover program]. At least she stopped boiling over...
:-)

Brian, thank you so much!

THANKKKKKKKKKK YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU BRIaN!!!! im about to cry, my nose and eyes are watering hahha,, thanks so much.

Hi Brian, You're a genius. It solved my problem.

I had been pulling my hair out trying to find this one. Thanks Brian

The only thing I did to fix my problem was unplugged my router and plugged it back in

Great solution.
I've been trying for days to get my girlfriends Acer Aspire One working - and it has Japanese XP installed so it's extremely difficult!!
The above solution from Brian worked for me - but only after I uninstalled the Atheros AR5007EG:
- click "Start"
- click "Control Panel"
- click "Classic View"
- doubleclick "System"
- select "Hardware" tab
- click "Device Manager" button
- click "+" to left of "network adapters"
- right click "Atheros AR5007EG ...."
- click "uninstall"

I then restarted the pc, windows found the new hardware and installed drivers. Then I applied Brians' fix from above and it's been working ever since!

Good discussion forum - hope this helps others.

DON'T DO THIS - I had to recover the system - LOST ACCESS to Wi-Fi completely!!!!

Nope. Sure didn't solve my issue. My system says I'm connected to the Internet but still unable to see a web page.

i did that Brian but my internet still will not work

Thank you soo much i fellowed your steps and my laptop is back to normal

Totally worked for me and I was ready to chuck this thing. Thanks!

Not only is my internet/wi-fi now working, but my computer is now running super fast, like a core i5 should. Wonderful. Thank you. I like Acer machines, but that is a stupid setting.