My hard drive was damaged, so I had a new one installed. Last night I
reinstaled my XP. I cabled into my wireless router and downloaded the driver
for my internal wireless adapter. I launched it, selected my home network and
connected. It looked great and said that it had Excellent strength and was
running at 54.0 Mbps. Sounds good. But when I go to open IE, I get a screen
indicating that I'm not connected. If I plug the cable back in, though. It
works. What do I do to use my wireless?

"Wiley" wrote in message
news:84D7624F-3F58-4555-B7C4-C82517116D4C@microsoft.com...
> My hard drive was damaged, so I had a new one installed. Last night I
> reinstaled my XP. I cabled into my wireless router and downloaded the
> driver
> for my internal wireless adapter. I launched it, selected my home network
> and
> connected. It looked great and said that it had Excellent strength and was
> running at 54.0 Mbps. Sounds good. But when I go to open IE, I get a
> screen
> indicating that I'm not connected. If I plug the cable back in, though. It
> works. What do I do to use my wireless?

Sometimes wireless works fine, and sometimes it doesn't.

Try adjusting the antennas on the router.

Jim

This doesn't help. As I said in my post, I have "excellent" signal strength
and the properties show that it is connected at 54 Mbps.

"Jim" wrote:

>
> "Wiley" wrote in message
> news:84D7624F-3F58-4555-B7C4-C82517116D4C@microsoft.com...
> > My hard drive was damaged, so I had a new one installed. Last night I
> > reinstaled my XP. I cabled into my wireless router and downloaded the
> > driver
> > for my internal wireless adapter. I launched it, selected my home network
> > and
> > connected. It looked great and said that it had Excellent strength and was
> > running at 54.0 Mbps. Sounds good. But when I go to open IE, I get a
> > screen
> > indicating that I'm not connected. If I plug the cable back in, though. It
> > works. What do I do to use my wireless?
>
> Sometimes wireless works fine, and sometimes it doesn't.
>
> Try adjusting the antennas on the router.
>
> Jim
>
>
>

Wiley wrote:
> This doesn't help. As I said in my post, I have "excellent" signal strength
> and the properties show that it is connected at 54 Mbps.
>
> "Jim" wrote:
>
>> "Wiley" wrote in message
>> news:84D7624F-3F58-4555-B7C4-C82517116D4C@microsoft.com...
>>> My hard drive was damaged, so I had a new one installed. Last night I
>>> reinstaled my XP. I cabled into my wireless router and downloaded the
>>> driver
>>> for my internal wireless adapter. I launched it, selected my home network
>>> and
>>> connected. It looked great and said that it had Excellent strength and was
>>> running at 54.0 Mbps. Sounds good. But when I go to open IE, I get a
>>> screen
>>> indicating that I'm not connected. If I plug the cable back in, though. It
>>> works. What do I do to use my wireless?
>> Sometimes wireless works fine, and sometimes it doesn't.
>>
>> Try adjusting the antennas on the router.
>>
>> Jim
>>
>>
>>

Is there a firewall on the wireless adapter connection?

Can you "view wireless networks" and if so, does yours show as secured
or unsecured? If secured, connect the cable to the router and turn off
your encryption. Then try to connect. If all OK, then re-setup encryption.

Hi
May be this can Help.
My Wireless does not work - http://www.ezlan.net/wireless.html
Wireless, Basic Configuration - http://www.ezlan.net/Wireless_Config.html\
Wireless Security - http://www.ezlan.net/Wireless_Security.html
Jack (MVP-Networking).

"Wiley" wrote in message
news:84D7624F-3F58-4555-B7C4-C82517116D4C@microsoft.com...
> My hard drive was damaged, so I had a new one installed. Last night I
> reinstaled my XP. I cabled into my wireless router and downloaded the
> driver
> for my internal wireless adapter. I launched it, selected my home network
> and
> connected. It looked great and said that it had Excellent strength and was
> running at 54.0 Mbps. Sounds good. But when I go to open IE, I get a
> screen
> indicating that I'm not connected. If I plug the cable back in, though. It
> works. What do I do to use my wireless?