Wireless router not connecting with SOME devices...

[arthurbach4]

I have a reasonably unusual problem with my wireless router.

I am running a pc (laptop with XP) and I have a Netgear WGR614 v7 wireless router (4 port).

At various times I wirelessly connect the following:
ps3/pda/laptopx2.

For a good 6 months everything would connect (often all at the same time) with no problem what-so-ever, but recently I have had some issues.

Now NOTHING will connect wirelessly to the router EXCEPT my laptop.

That's wierd right?

To clarify - everything FINDS my router and often hooks into it at full or excellent strength but while it connects to the router per say it does NOT go on to connect to the INTERNET proper.

The really weird thing is that the wireless card on my laptop (also netgear as it came with the router) DOES wirelessly connect just fine.

You should see the looks my flatmate is giving me as she sits there with her "kind of but not quite" connected laptop!

I tried having the ethernet cord connect into one of the four connections at the back of the router (as opposed to the main ethernet connection at the back). This presents the exact same issue but now MY laptop also doesn't connect to the internet (though it does connect to the router).

If it matters, when the ps3 fails to connect it says:

"An error occurred during connection with the server. This is a DNS error (80710102)".

I was thinking maybe it was a problem with the settings on the router but that is where my "expertise" ends.

P.s. If it matters - when I connect the ethernet cord DIRECTLY into my laptop it also works perfectly.

Hope you can help.

Pete.

[Ethel]

Have you tried udating the router firmware?

[ACtheTROLL]

not at all wierd - pretty commonplace actually.

normally (ha! - wireless is never normal ... ) can see router ... can't connect is down to the wep key ... or sometimes the ssid ... or possibly the chanel
did you or someone reconfig your wireless at about the time everything went off?

if no joy there start with a wired connection .... check that each device that won't ... will with a cable.
then with all devices in the same room as the router .... try connecting each device individually ... and then add another ... and another.

then you can go walkabout with one of the lappys see if and where the cutoff is in different parts of the building

[ACtheTROLL]

also check that the gateway is pointing at the router ....

open a command prompt ... type
ipconfig /all


Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-00-00-00-00-00
Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.66
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.254
DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.254
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.254
Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : 26 April 2008 12:58:01
Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : 27 April 2008 12:58:01