Wireless router - can not connect to the Internet

Schaumburg Computer Repair Service receives many calls from people who say that a family member to set up wireless connections, and now does not work. Here are the steps to trouble shoot your wireless router.

Schaumburg Computer Repair Service is to go home and perform a brief investigation to see what wireless networks in the wireless area. Then, we'll see what to try the wireless network to your home computer to connect to. When we seethat the standard wireless network, Linksys, we recommend that the SSID be changed. Linksys is the default name on all Linksys routers. This could be the computer, connect to the wireless network neighbors.

When wireless clients are set correctly, you will begin to troubleshoot the wireless network. Usually tell clients that connect to the Internet. So when the clients connect to the wireless router, so you look at the wiredEthernet switch from the wireless router to your cable modem or DSL. If the connections seem good, I'll still put the Ethernet cable, it could be dissolved. The next step is to restart the wireless router. Home wireless router must from time to time because the firmware locks to be restarted. So you want to unplug the power cord from the router, wait about 10 seconds and reconnect in this way to solve about 90% of the problems. Then, if this does not workYou want to start the modem the same way.

Now for your laptop or desktop wireless access, and click the Start menu to go. Then click the Run box and type cmd. This opens the command prompt, type ipconfig / all This list of all your IP address. You should have an IP address of 192.168.1.2 to something like 254. If yes, then great, that means that you should be able now to the Internet. If an IP address 169.0.0.0 thenThey are not always an IP address from wireless router DHCP server assigns IP addresses. Now the promt command prompt ipconfig / release (this way your IP address). Now type in the command prompt type ipconfig / renew, this is a new IP address from wireless router to pull.

So, before calling a repair service in the first, start the client computer. Next, check all connections to and from the Ethernet wireless router. Then restart yourWireless routers and cable modems. Finally, try to restart the wireless computer again or appear in the commands from the command line above.

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