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Have standard Airport Base connected to DSL. My husband has PC laptop with Win XP. Has his wireless card installed, configured/encrypted correctly, gets 100% signal, but cannot load a webpage. indicates that no connection exists and wants to dial the modem (which, by the way works fine using dialup) Can someone with knowledge of XP help? Thanks in advance.
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Problems with PC connection to Airport Base
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sjbartnik 
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Posted 04 June 2003 - 12:49 PM
It sounds like Windows is attempting to use the dial-up connection to the internet instead of the wireless connection. I'm not 100% positive where this is in XP, but it should be similar to the below:
Go to Control Panel | Internet
On the Connection tab (or similar) there is a place to tell Windows what to do if no network connection is present. Right now it is probably set to dial whatever dialup connection you have set up.
Instead, set it to use the wireless card (if such an option exists) or the LAN/Ethernet connection if a separate wireless option doesn't exist. Hopefully that will do the trick.
(I was a longtime Windows user and had Windows 2000 before I got the Mac, but I haven't gotten a chance to really play with XP so I hope the above helps).
Go to Control Panel | Internet
On the Connection tab (or similar) there is a place to tell Windows what to do if no network connection is present. Right now it is probably set to dial whatever dialup connection you have set up.
Instead, set it to use the wireless card (if such an option exists) or the LAN/Ethernet connection if a separate wireless option doesn't exist. Hopefully that will do the trick.
(I was a longtime Windows user and had Windows 2000 before I got the Mac, but I haven't gotten a chance to really play with XP so I hope the above helps).
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Posted 04 June 2003 - 05:03 PM
Thanks for your reply. He's got all the wireless settings correct, has set not to dial, but still no access. Looked into the firewall issue, should not be a problem. He is connected fully to the airport -- it shows the connection and that it is communicating, but when trying to access a webpage, he gets the message that server cannot be found and the standard "page cannot be displayed".
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Posted 04 June 2003 - 08:23 PM
Go to the command prompt (Start | Run | CMD) and type ipconfig /all
Verify that the computer is receiving an IP address from the router. If you see a 169.254.x.x address that's bad. It usually means the computer was unable to pull an IP address from a DHCP server (the AirPort base station in this case).
Check your DHCP settings on the AirPort and also make sure that the wireless network adapter in the computer is set to receive an IP address automatically (assuming you are using DHCP and not statically assigning the IP address).
Verify that the computer is receiving an IP address from the router. If you see a 169.254.x.x address that's bad. It usually means the computer was unable to pull an IP address from a DHCP server (the AirPort base station in this case).
Check your DHCP settings on the AirPort and also make sure that the wireless network adapter in the computer is set to receive an IP address automatically (assuming you are using DHCP and not statically assigning the IP address).
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