Getting a Wireless D-Link 524 router to connect
October 5th, 2005Like many people, I have had many frustrations with wireless connectivity. I used to have a linksys router model wrk54g. Apparently that is the one that is sold in Europe and is also a cheaper version of the wrt54g.
I hadn’t realized it at the time, but my connectivity issues began after I installed Microsoft’s SP 2. I searched all around for a solution to the problem, some people had fixed it using the winsockfix tcp repair utility. I tried that, I tried configuring different levels of encryption, I used WEP, WPA, and I even tried to leave it open just to make sure It wasn’t the encryption I was doing wrong. Nothing worked.
I finally went out and bought a D-Link 524 wireless router and adapter kit. I went through the motions; setup wizard, turn off cable modem, etc… It didn’t work. At this point, I decided to uninstall SP2 patch, it still didn’t work. So, I went ahead and reinstalled the SP2 patch and reset everthing to factory settings on the router.
What do you know? It finally connected. Instead of running the setup wizard on the D-link cd-rom, I took it just one step at a time.
I opened 192.168.0.1 , changed the router’s default password
Okay it still worked.
Next I enabled WEP encryption at 64
We’re still connected!
Then I moved on and made WEP 128 encryption.
Still connected and I stopped there.
In conclusion, if you are having the “aquiring network address” or even if it is connected but you can’t browse.
Do this:
uninstall Microsoft SP 2
reinstall Microsoft SP2
Install your router on factory settings and change one setting at a time as stated above.
My hardware and software for this was:
XP Home
Sony PCG-FRV37 VAIO laptop
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