Ok, here's the problem. I use Verizon DSL and the modem they supplied for me. I also use Linksys router and a Dell Laptop with a wireless card.

I surfed the web untill late last night on the notebook and as far as I knew the desktop was surfable too. The very last thing I did before I went to bed was put both computers into hibernation.

When I woke up the computers this morning they both wouldn't connect to the internet. After about an hour twinking with the the equipment, the software stepups and banging my head on my desk, I finally found that the problem was the rounter. I just reset and unpluged the it. Finally, I can get connected on the primary computer at 100 Mbps, which is normal. I can connect on the notebook, too, but only at 11 Mbps - which is bad.

I've exhusted all the computer networking knowlegde I have -which isn't much because the router and such worked right out the box. I'd like to play Lusternia this evening when I get home, so does anyone have any ideas for me?

Thanks in advance.

Bad phone line, or a bad router, is what it sounds like to me. If your computer had connected right off, I'd have guessed the card.

Try removing the computer from the router, and see what your laptop's running at. My guess stands at a bad router.

EDIT: By computer, I mean desktop.

Guess it is the router. I took out the desktop's cable and booted up my notebook. Still not connecting properly. The router's not even a year old - do they mess up that easily?

Doesn't really mean it's the router. I was looking to see if the laptop would hit norm, obviously it didn't - try hooking the laptop through the desktop's port? I mean, giving it a ground-wire, and not using a card.

It may well be the card. I've heard of it, although never seen it - a laptop overheating to the point of actually damaging a wireless card.

And, as to routers. Eh. I've seen routers last for several long, enduring years - I've used routers that were flooded in hurricanes, and still work fine. But I've had some work for a few days and die, with no apparant cause.

Given it's working for the desktop, but not the laptop, either interference (which I can't imagine, really) or you damaged the card (which can be nasty on the pocketbook!).

Oh ok. It connected, but I still can't pull up a web page. Oh and to correct my frist post, I found that 11 Mbps was normal for a wireless-b router - or something like that.

Eh, I'm not used to wireless routers. In fact, I know very, very little of them. I'll ask some friends and see what I can come up with!

I tend to be a hardware person, and wireless routers tend to ride the line between my know and the realm in which I'm absolutely clueless in.

EDIT: Although it sounds like a setting thing to me. I know there's a few types, although it sounds like they might be static, or some are static some aren't... It's been two to three years since I touched anything wireless, and that was when we were putting it up for the wireless cafe off Duval, sooooo... Give me a bit! I'll see what I can find out at work tommorrow.

The extent of my networking knowledge is unplug everything and plug it in again until it works. Hasn't let me down yet.

Not to mention, your DSL is 4mbps or less, so doesn't really matter how fast it's connected unless you're transferring between the two computers locally.