Hi All,
I have an extremly wierd problem. I am working for the company which is providing the HSIA to the hotels and other properties. Recently I recieved a call from our customer. He lives in the house where he should be able to connect wirelessly without any issues. I was troubleshooting him for last week but none of my ideas resolved it. This guy has 2 laptops - first brand new and the second one a little bit older. On both laptops he is detecting appropriate SSID's broadcasted by the nearest WAPs with a pretty good signal. But everytime he is attempting to connect IP - 169.254.x.x is being assigned. He was able to connect two blocks away from his house (the same equipment is installed in his neighbourhood) It's not a DHCP issue cause it has been investigated, all the Access Points are working just fine too. The most astonishing thing is that his friend is able to connect inside of his house using his own laptop.
New one Toshiba Satelite is running on WinVISTA. Originally I thought it's a drivers issue cause these which he had installed were outdated. He installed the newest compatibile with VISTA but it still didn't help. All the time he is getting 169.254.x.x. My first idea was to assign him a static settings - it didn't help. I went through the configuration of his wireless NIC hoping I can make it working more efficiently - still no success.
Finally I decided we will try with the second laptop. Exactly the same sympthoms.
Both laptops are equipped with good built in wireless NIC's - ATHEROS. I can't believe they are both failing. Just to double check I advised him to buy an external one. He bought a PCMCIA NetGear card. First we gave it a try with utility - results were still the same. Then using Wireless Zero Configuration - still the same.
I can't find a logical answer for it. Please help me !!. I now it's impossible that this isn't working, especially when somebody else is able to connect from his place.
THANK YOU IN ADVANCE.
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