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Everyone wants me around RHP as much as possible, so it's in your interests to help me 🙂.

I just got a new wireless card, I'm piggybacking off of my landlord's connection, and I can get a signal (although often not a good one). If I look at the properties of my connection, it will tell me that packets are being sent, but none received, and my IP address is a bunch of zeros. I have not had this problem in other places. Any ideas?

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check DHCP or just put in a static IP... I think

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Originally posted by royalchicken
Everyone wants me around RHP as much as possible, so it's in your interests to help me 🙂.

I just got a new wireless card, I'm piggybacking off of my landlord's connection, and I can get a signal (although often not a good one). If I look at the properties of my connection, it will tell me that packets are being sent, but none received, and my IP address is a bunch of zeros. I have not had this problem in other places. Any ideas?
His wireless net might be secured, in which case you need the
codes to tap in, something you will probably not get unless the
LL gives it to you. I was inadvertantly sucking bandwidth off my
next door neighbors net when mine went down. Look at 'view
available connections' see if a named network is given.
I found out about mine because I renamed my own 'donn'
and the network I was sucking off was named 'linksys' which I now
realize is another brand of wireless cards. Mine was from Netgear.
Took a while to figure that one out.

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