limited connectivity

[sjean423]

My daughter is running vista on her laptop at school. We have a wireless router, and when she came home for xmas, she was able to use it, as always. Suddenly yesterday she can;t. It tells her she is connected but has limited connectivity. It doesn't seem to be the router, as she has tried it on 2 other networks last night as well. Done the whole reboot, etc of both the router and the laptop. Tried repairing the connection. I believe it it some sort of ip address conflict, due to a problem her brother has had in the past, but can get hold of him to see what he did to fix it. (altho he was running XP).

The wierd thing is, she can use aol instant messanger! (I guess hence the "limited" connectivity as opposed to not being connected)

Anyone run in to this before?

[Patonb]

Yes, What kind of router?

Double check the passwords correct.

[sjean423]

Netgear wireless router. We have tried rebooting it. Password is right. In fact she gets the same error trying to connect to our neighbors unsecured network, and a friends network (using that p/w). AIM will run, but she can't access anything else.

[Patonb]

http://forum1.netgear.com/showthread.php?t=8817

Try this

[sjean423]

Thanks Patonb ..... that looks like it will help.

edited to say

Well, it appears the information there has me on the right track, but doesn't quite fix it. (In fact I found out the suggestions are the same thing my son used to fix his issues. He was running xp tho') I end up connected with IPv4, but limited in v6? Combined with vista I think I am out of my league now. She gave up ages ago, and is using her old desktop for internet right now, and figures if she still has an issue back at school (doubtful .... whole different story there) she'll be back at the help desk. She has had a LOT of vista issues, and is a regular there anyhow. She figures some of her computer geek friends will be able to fix it, so I'm going to leave it alone now.

Thanks for the help!