| Schaumburg Computer Repair Service gets many | | | | freeze up. So you will want to pull the power cord |
| phone calls from people saying that a family | | | | from the router, wait about 10 seconds and plug |
| member set up their wireless connections and | | | | it back in. This will solve about 90% of the |
| now it won't work. Here are the following steps | | | | problems. Next if that doesn't work you will want |
| to trouble shoot your wireless router. | | | | to restart the modem the same way. |
| Schaumburg Computer Repair service will first | | | | Now go to your wireless laptop or wireless |
| walk into your home and perform a short | | | | desktop and click on the start menu. Next click on |
| wireless survey to see which wireless networks | | | | the run box and type cmd. This will bring up the |
| are in the area. Next we will see what wireless | | | | command prompt, now type in ipconfig/all. This |
| network your home computers are trying to | | | | will list all of your ip address information. You |
| connect to. If we see that your default wireless | | | | should have an ip address of something like |
| network is Linksys we will recommend that the | | | | 192.168.1.2 through 254. If you do, then great that |
| SSID be changed . Linksys is the default name on | | | | means that you should be able to get to the |
| all Linksys routers. This could make your | | | | internet now. If you receive an ip address of |
| computers connect to your neighbors wireless | | | | 169.0.0.0 then you are not getting an ip address |
| network. | | | | from your wireless router's dhcp server which |
| If you wireless clients appear to be setup | | | | assigns IP addresses. Now at the command |
| correctly we will begin trouble shooting your | | | | promt type ipconfig/release ( this will release your |
| wireless network. Usually clients will say that they | | | | IP address). Now type at the command prompt |
| are unable to connect to the internet. So if the | | | | ipconfig/renew, this will pull a new IP address from |
| clients are connecting to the wireless router fine | | | | your wireless router. |
| we will check the wired ethernet connections | | | | So before you call in a repair service first restart |
| going from the wireless router to the cable or | | | | your client computer. Next check all your ethernet |
| DSL modem. If the connections appear fine I will | | | | connections going to and from your wireless |
| still reseat the ethernet cords because they might | | | | router. Then restart your wireless router and |
| be loose. Next step is to restart your wireless | | | | cable modem. Finally, restart your wireless |
| router. Home wireless routers will have to be | | | | computers one more time or try the command |
| restarted once in awhile because the firmware will | | | | line commands listed above. |