JacksterMan
03-04-2006, 12:28 AM
About a week ago, I got a new laptop. I'm really happy with it, it's an HP Pavilion ze2000. Great laptop for the price, loads better than the dell I was going to get.
One of the main selling points for my getting a laptop was wireless internet. When I got it home, the first thing I did was to connect it to my wireless network. It worked a treat. I went to a friends house, the pool at our condo, and a few yards down from my house. All of these places had wireless networks. The place where I live is loaded with WiFi, and i'd say at least one-third of the networks are open. My laptop has worked great on every network I've used it one, exept the one at my public library.
I saw at least 10 other people with laptops at the library, and the 3 I asked were online using wireless with no problems. However, I tried to connect and my laptop said it was getting an excellent signal and was connected at 54Mbps. I opened up Firefox, and it couldn't get to any website. I tried all I could, but my laptop would look for websites and say it couldn't find a server. Thinking it was a DNS server issue, I gave the laptop a known working DNS server. It did not work. As soon as I got home, I connected to my network , and it worked perfectly.
Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks.
Specs
HP Pavilion ze2000
512MB RAM
ATI Radeon XPress X200(128MB)
60GB HD
Broadcom 802.11b/g WLAN
Thanks Guys.
--Jacksterman:t
One of the main selling points for my getting a laptop was wireless internet. When I got it home, the first thing I did was to connect it to my wireless network. It worked a treat. I went to a friends house, the pool at our condo, and a few yards down from my house. All of these places had wireless networks. The place where I live is loaded with WiFi, and i'd say at least one-third of the networks are open. My laptop has worked great on every network I've used it one, exept the one at my public library.
I saw at least 10 other people with laptops at the library, and the 3 I asked were online using wireless with no problems. However, I tried to connect and my laptop said it was getting an excellent signal and was connected at 54Mbps. I opened up Firefox, and it couldn't get to any website. I tried all I could, but my laptop would look for websites and say it couldn't find a server. Thinking it was a DNS server issue, I gave the laptop a known working DNS server. It did not work. As soon as I got home, I connected to my network , and it worked perfectly.
Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks.
Specs
HP Pavilion ze2000
512MB RAM
ATI Radeon XPress X200(128MB)
60GB HD
Broadcom 802.11b/g WLAN
Thanks Guys.
--Jacksterman:t