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Old September 4th, 2005, 01:59 PM
crocodile crocodile is offline
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WiFi network

My laptop has suddenly stopped connecting to any web sites even although my laptop shows me connected to my wifi network its as if fire fox cant see the available connection and keeps trying to use another connection on my laptop .
The rest of the network is working fine i dont know why this has suddenly happened Any clues guys Im sure its something blindingly obvious
the laptop uses XP home

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Old September 4th, 2005, 08:39 PM
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Have you run a spyware or virus scan lately? Sometimes spyware can break browsers and winsock layers. If you go to a command prompt and type ping yahoo.com what kind of output do you get maybe post it here so we can have a look.
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Old September 6th, 2005, 01:32 AM
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Hey thanks for the help but it was only me being a thick head , id entered the wrong network key
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Old September 6th, 2005, 06:41 AM
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Thanks for posting back with the fix. Sometimes its the simple things heheh. If you ever have questions or feel you can help another user here feel free to post here at CTH.
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