Can't connect wireless on laptop, even though connection says "very good"
My co-worker is at a hotel and trying to hook up to her wireless so we can finish an important job. Her wireless connection says "very good" but she is unable to pull up any internet pages succesfully.
What we've tried thus far:
1. rebooting
2. disabling firewall
3. disabling anti-virus
4. trying a "Repair Connection"
We're in an urgent situation.
Any other ideas of what we can try?
What we've tried thus far:
1. rebooting
2. disabling firewall
3. disabling anti-virus
4. trying a "Repair Connection"
We're in an urgent situation.
Any other ideas of what we can try?
ASKER
She's not running AOL.
I'm not familiar with either a WIFI utility or the Wireless Zero Configuration -- would either of those things be things that she would have on her machine?
I will also mention that she did have connection for about 15 minutes - it worked fine momentarily before it stopped. And she doesn't know why the changed occured.
And that the person working at the hotel DOES have connection right now.
Thanks
I'm not familiar with either a WIFI utility or the Wireless Zero Configuration -- would either of those things be things that she would have on her machine?
I will also mention that she did have connection for about 15 minutes - it worked fine momentarily before it stopped. And she doesn't know why the changed occured.
And that the person working at the hotel DOES have connection right now.
Thanks
ASKER
If you mean is she able to check to see if there are other connections available to her, it's only the one hotel that's available.
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I would agree with Carl. Does she have to purchase air-time? A number of locations give you a small grace period in which to visit the locations web site where you put in your details so that you air-time is booked to you hotel room. this is now quite common in europe. After the grace period, the connection is blocked.
ASKER
Disabling anti-spyware worked.
Thanks so much Carl, and also Keith!
~marney
Thanks so much Carl, and also Keith!
~marney
Nice one Carl. Our users have been caught out with this scenario but I have not seen Spyware cause issues before so thats a new one for me too.
do you have a WIFI utility to scan for networks? or are you using the Wireless Zero Configuration?