David -
Thank you for your reply.
The networks vary. I am encountering this problem while travelling in my
motorhome through Louisiana and Florida where many MacDonalds, various
coffee shops, and places like Kinko's offer wireless services to their
customers. Sometimes they work sometimes they do not. For instance I am
now staying at a campground in Carabelle FL where their wireless network is
just being installed and is running open during its test phase. The Belkin
utility sees the network and tells me that I am connected to it but I can
not access the web or retrieve my email
I have not tried to determine if these networks are 802.11b or .11g since
most of the time the staff members have no knowledge of the service they
provide.
Thanks
Pretson
At 06:30 AM 2/28/04, you wrote:
> You've told us about the card in your notebook, but nothing about the
>wireless network you expect to be communicating with. Can you elaborate?
>
> My suspicion is that you may be in an area of overlapping coverage --
>perhaps a neighbor also has an 802.11g system. I'm thinking that y, to/via
>a network that you aren't authorized to use.
>
>David Gillett
>
>
>On 26 Feb 2004 at 7:10, Betti Ann & Preston Smith wrote:
>
> > I am running a Belkin 802.11g Wireless Notebook Network Card on my Compaq
> > Presario 1277 Notebook running W98SE, ZoneAalarm Pro 4.5.538.000, and
> > Avast! Version 4.1 Home edition.
> >
> > About 50% of the time, my card sees the wireless network, the Belkin setup
> > utility tells me I am connected to the network, but I can IE6, Mozilla, and
> > Eudora 6.1 can not download from the net. Conversely, about half the time
> > I can do downloads.
> >
> > Does anyone have any idea what i should be looking at to give me service
> > 100% of the time?
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