"GillWeb" <gill.webster@virgin.net> wrote in message
news:1165473786.757776.137400@80g2000cwy.googlegro ups.com...
> Hi, We just got our wireless home network set up & the only problem is
> that although the laptop will find the network and connects to most
> pages well, if we try to find anything with "google" in the URL it will
> not connect to any link at all.
>
> If connected by wire to the network, it all works fine (& so do the 2
> PCs) - its just the wireless access that has a hole in it somewhere.
>
> Any suggestions please for what might be wrong or needs resetting?
> Anyone else had this problem? Its really awful as we use Google for
> everything - its like having your arm cut off!

I know with a router, either wired or wireless, the firmware can be sick out
of the box. Situation such as you're having can happen if the firmware is
sick, where a machine cannot access some sites. The solution that usually
fixes this problem is to flash/install tthe current or later version of the
firmware to the router, if you have a router.