often my wireless is excellent signal but requires restart to allow net access. any way to access w/o restart?
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If your system uses a DHCP server at your ISP, the IP address "lease" may be expiring while your systems is asleep or off. This can cause your computer to get confused when it tries to use the invalid IP, forcing the restart to renew the lease.\n\nIf your using a router like the Linksys you can use the "keep alive" option in the router setup to prevent it from dropping the lease.
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Contact network administrator.
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You need to unplug the cable modem power for 30 seconds and plug it back in to let it reset after you change computers.  I just found that out from trial and error, while I was hooking up to my laptop.  On the laptop I had to restart the computer also, but on the desktop I didn't have to.  I think I am going to buy a wireless router next.
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No, you can always turn off or restart your PC.  It's good to keep the cable modem on, however if it does go down it will resynch on it's own most of the time.
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tools,internet options,connections,lansettings,automaticly detect settings, then unplug your router and modem for a few seconds plug everything back in and restart your pc
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Not sure if this will help, but this recently happened to a friend.\nTheir situation was similar, where they kept having issues trying to connect multiple wireless devices.\n\nLooking at their router setup, someone had locked down the number of addresses the router would give out via DHCP.\n\nIt was locked down to give out only 2, and since their desktop would take one, once another device came on line, no one else would be able to surf.\n\nSo, check your DHCP settings, and see if it is limited.
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How do you know that you aren't having issues with the PC that cannot see the Router?  The Drivers on your wireless card maybe cannot see the router.  Do you have broadcase enabled on the router?
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right click network places and set it to windows logon and restart
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probably because some spot you have saved as your startup page when you start the net just can't be accessed when you start it up.\ntry changing it manually in your internet options.\nMaybe that will help you out.
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from your cable or DSL modem connect the ethernet cable to the router input.  Install and configure using the CD which came with the router.  During the installation process it checks the connectivity and you are on if its passed.  Couple of tips though.  \n\n1. Change the default SSID\n2. Never broadcast the SSID (make sure the broadcast option is uncheked)\n3. Set up a 64/128 bit WEP key\n\nOnce you done the above then all your wireless adapters can pick up the signal once you set up with the authentication.
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your nic/wireless is disabled, misconfigured or dead.
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Disable any other lan connections like wired nics, 1394 lan etc.  Have only the wireless one enabled.
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First: Right-click on connection icon and cick 'repair'.\n\nNext: Restart your computer. \n\nFinally: On the back of your Netgear unit (Ihave the same thing) press and release the tiny 'reset' button while your computer restarts.
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You can set up the security key  for your wireless network. It's like a password, everyone wants to use your network has to use this key.   \n\n. Because you will need a default password to access this feature, you should check the manual or any provided intruction to help you.
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You might be able to, depending on whether you can get signal or not. \n\nMore than one computer can connect via a wireless router with no problems in most all cases. If your neighbor has secured the network with a password then you are out of luck unless you can hack it or get the password from him.\n\nI 'borrowed' signal from my neighbor while I was reconfiguring my router but his network is unsecured.\n\nIt sounds like he is not being completely honest, most likely to keep his network private...
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Possibily wireless data link or direct setallite link.\n\ncheck out with your ISP that you are willing to do something like that he will give you a perfect idea about what's going on in their scenario and how are they doing it.
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to disable the connection:\n  go to the start menu -> settings -> network connections, then right click the correct connection for the wireless network and choose disable