[muglo] Re: PC/internet
- From: Andy Skuse <askuse@xxxxxx>
- To: muglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 21:26:03 -0500
On 30-Dec-08, at 3:11 PM, Douglas Feick wrote:
> I have a wireless router beside my computer which has an ethernet
> connection to my computer. I use built in Airport.
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> I have a wireless receiver on the eavestrough of my house, with a
> cable that comes to my computer room where there is a router which
> joins my computer with a ethernet cable...Doug
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> I use Airport to share my connection between my desk top Mac and my
> laptop in the other room.I thought my son might be able to do the
> same thing, because I don't think I have another option for him to
> access the internet from his computer while he is here for the
> week...Doug
Doug,
Some questions for you:
1) You said you have a "wireless receiver on the eavestrough of your
house". Do you mean you have a "wireless" internet connection into
your home via a Satellite dish or microwave line-of-sight dish on your
roof?
2) And when you talk about using Airport to share your connection, do
you mean you have Internet Sharing enabled on your Mac so others can
can connect to the internet through your Mac? In other words, is your
Mac acting like an Airport Base Station? That's what it sounds like
you saying in the 3rd paragraph that I quoted above but maybe I have
misinterpreted that.
3) You also said you "have a wireless router beside my computer which
has an ethernet connection to my computer. I use built-in Airport."
That sounds like you do have a wireless router, but your Mac is
connected via a wire (ethernet). Is this correct?
4) What brand of wireless router do you have, Linksys, D-Link, Belkin
etc.?
All of that aside, if your son's PC can "see" your wireless router but
can't connect then here are some things to consider:
- Check to see if your son is typing the password correctly. This
gotcha is far more common than you might think. He may be typing the
first letter of the password as a capital when it should be lower
case. There are dozens of other scenarios where passwords can be typed
in wrong so check this first before doing anything else because it's
the easiest and most common mistake to make.
- If your son has to enter a password to connect to your wireless
router then you must have wireless encryption enabled. Do you have
encryption enabled in your wireless router settings (your answer
should be yes)? If so, what encryption type is being used? Sometimes
Macs and PCs have incompatibility issues with the various types of
encryption and you need to find the type that works for both. WPA
Personal and WPA2 Personal are the standard for Macs and Windows XP &
Vista computer these days, but depending on the age of the PC and the
version of Windows it has you may have to fall back to using WEP to
allow both the PC and Mac to connect. WEP encryption is old and less
secure but it's better than no encryption at all.
- The MAC address issue that Gerhard mentioned is a valid possibility
if your son can see your network, tries to connect, gets asked to type
in a password, but then gets rejected. Check your router's wireless
security settings and see if "Wireless MAC Filter" or something
similar to that is enabled or not. If so then you would need to add
the MAC address from your son's PC to the list of computers that are
allowed to connect. Most people don't use this feature but it may be
on and is worth investigating if all else fails.
- You said "his dialoge box says he can't gain access to the internet
from my system." Can you give us more details? The specifics of what
happens when your son tries to connect to your wireless router and the
exact wording of the error message he gets are critical to figuring
this problem out. Ask him to try connecting one more time and then
write down exactly what happens and what the error message says and
post it here.
Andy
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