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    Internet Connection Help with unsecured network

    Hello! I have a compaq presario F700 laptop and for the past couple of weeks, I haven't been able to connect to the internet I have always connected to successfully. When I first moved to my new home, I always connected to this unsecured network for the internet. Now, when I connect to this network, its only shows up as a local connection and no internet connection (at the bottom of the screen, there is no globe that is suppose to signify you are connected to the internet).

    Has the owner of that connection done something recently to their network, or is it me?

    How do I fix it?

    PLEASE HELP!!

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    Re: Internet Connection Help with unsecured network

    I am not sure if I am understanding you!
    Are you saying you have been using someone else's connection.- Say, a neighbours?

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    Re: Internet Connection Help with unsecured network

    yes, she knows about it. Why is it local connection only and not local and internet connection? This all happened recently. Maybe it was something I downloaded? what are the reasons why it is only local and not both local and internet????

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    Re: Internet Connection Help with unsecured network

    Has your neighbour changed her connection type? It sounds that originally she was using a wireless router thus allowing you to pick up the signal too. Perhaps shes changed her connection to a cable type which would obviously curtail your connection?


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    Re: Internet Connection Help with unsecured network

    well, all I know is that it is currently picking up the signal as local only and not internet. are you saying the neighbor has done something to their router so that other computers only pick up a local connection??

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    Re: Internet Connection Help with unsecured network

    Happy Holidays!!! Local only means "PRIVATE", "INTERNET" means public.

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    Re: Internet Connection Help with unsecured network

    Quote Originally Posted by corbata View Post
    well, all I know is that it is currently picking up the signal as local only and not internet. are you saying the neighbor has done something to their router so that other computers only pick up a local connection??
    She may well have done. Like I said above, I'm guessing she had a wireless connection (your laptop can probably connect to wireless signels) and she's either changed suppliers or accounts either way her connection type may have changed. By this I mean her 'physical' connection to the internet. If your not connected to the net then that means you just have a 'local' connection which is basically your pc and anything else on that 'network' eg printers ect. An 'Internet' connection is what it is... By the way, this is just a guess and maybe totally the wrong reason but I guess your first port of call would be to check with your neighbour?


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    Re: Internet Connection Help with unsecured network

    I wish I had "generous" neighbours like that. .....Did this not used to be known as "piggybacking" other networks????

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    Re: Internet Connection Help with unsecured network

    It certainly is Bill.....


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    Re: Internet Connection Help with unsecured network

    Maybe Corbata should trot round to the neighbour and discuss it. Other than that, I don't feel I have anymore to add to this thread.

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