bt home hub wireless connection problems

[deanos63]

hi all,

i have linksys wireless card on my PC and a bt home hub.

I have installed everything without using the bthomehub cd, i am using windows to manage my wireless connection rather then the bt cd, because i wanted to keep it simple.

the problem i am having is that every time i switch my pc off then back onmy wireless adapter seems to beable to hook up to the homehub, but when i go on to the internet it says cannot access this page etc etc, basically it won't connect to the internet. i have to play around with the settings right clicking and going into properties and just basically trying randon settings until it works.

what am i doing wrong? how can i get the internet toconnect automatically when i turn on my pc?

any help will be great

thanks

 

[Kharn]

As far as I know you DO have to use the BT software thats on the disk they sent you. it's a common problem with the BT home hub I know some one who has it and is planing on cancleing his BT connection just because of that POS.

 

[Gillywibble]

I've used it successfully several times without the CD, it is just a router after all.

Not sure what your problem is though, it's not set as a proxy server is it?

 

[Kharn]

Sry double post.

 

[deanos63]

basically it connects to the router when i boot the pc up but there is no internet connection.

i heard a lot of people say don't usethe cd it is rubbish.

 

[Gillywibble]

It is a bit AOL in the way it tries to take over things.

Might be worth installing just to see if that fixes the problem. You can always uninstall it after.

 

[SirMille]

Sounds like you need to "connect", some dsl is like that.
Instead of just automatially establishing the connect, you have to click on an icon on the desktop

 

[deanos63]

ok i think i figured it out by pure luck. so i will post my findings for anyone else that may have a similar problem.

I also have a wireless laptop, which was having the same problem, but today it seems to have fixed itself and connects every time on reboot, so my logical way of fixing my PC was to mirror all the settings of the laptop.

1) Got rid of any crap to do with BT and didn't bother using the CD, use windows xp to manage the wireless network, and make sure that the WCZ is enabled.

2) open wireless connection properties and generals tab, scroll down to internet protocol (TCP/IP) click properties.

3) make sure everything is set to auto.

4) General Tab click advanced

5) go to the options TAB and click on properties, make sure the "enable TCP/IP filtering (all adapters)" is UNCHECKED! This was the only difference between the laptop and the PC, the laptop being unchecked and the PC was checked, unchecked the box, restart, and my PC connected automatically with no problems.

Hopefully that is the end of that.

 

[deanos63]

turned my pc on this morning and guess what? didn't connect.

When i try to sign in to MSN i hit troubleshoot and it checks my connection and it seems to have a problem getting passed default gateway. does this mean anything to anyone?

could it be windows firewall maybe?

then i click repair, and it comesup with the limited connectivity then all of a sudden it connects fully and i can get onto the internet!?