I know this is a likely tiring question for y'all. I see many variations on it, but I'm stumped.

I had a D-Link router which was being used openly. All worked fine, but it was 5-6 yrs old and the ports etc were falling apart from much plugging in/out by teenagers.

I bought a TrendNet TEW-432BRP and everything geared up fine on my PC. I decided to set security on it as WPA2, had some trouble navigating settings on my laptop but eventually figured it out and was connected fine - which what I normally do [google google google]. Then tried to ENSURE my daughter's was connecting and couldn't figure out why it wouldn't.

After many hours, I eventually figured I'd go back to leaving it unsecured just to test whether she could connect, so reset EVERYTHING ... router, laptops etc. PC and my laptop were again working and connecting fine, but no matter what I do I cannot get hers to connect.

It says it's connected but there is no access to the internet. I tried to find a solution but to no avail. I'm not sure what other info you need - just let me know. Thanks in advance THATS exacly the same propbel i'm having, well, extrimaly simmilar anywar, have you tryed unplugging your ruter and then turning it back oon?Does your daughters wifi adapter support WPA2? That might explain why it will let you connect when the encryption is turned off, but not allow you when WPA2 is turned on.Not sure if it does or not, but it doesn't let her laptop connect either way. This is my series of events...lol...

1. Had D-Link [unsecured] - Home PC, my laptop, and daughter's laptop worked fine.

2. Switched to a TRENDnet TEW 432BRP - Initially tried to secure it, but daughter's laptop wouldn't connect. My laptop was in repair at that time so i couldn't take the time to fool with it because she needed hers to go to school. Got mine out of repair [it was just my power cord] and proceeded to sit down with everything while she was at school. Home PC and my laptop worked fine unsecured, and so I moved on to try to secure it. Again, Home PC and my laptop worked fine with both WPA and WPA2.

3. Daughter comes home from school, and I [feeling like an absolute computer guru....lol] figure I can just replicate what I did with my own laptop to get hers online. I failed. And so I reset the router, BEGAN from scratch, and started with an unsecured TRENDnet.

4. Again, my Home PC and my laptop were connecting fine to the internet on the unsecured network. But hers would not.

5. I performed and rebooted afterwards:

Reset WINSOCK ENTRIES to installation defaults: netsh winsock reset catalog

Reset IPv4 TCP/IP stack to installation defaults. netsh int ipv4 reset reset.log

Reset IPv6 TCP/IP stack to installation defaults. netsh int ipv6 reset reset.log


6. I removed all networks from her "Wireless Networks" list and began afresh. Still no internet.

It says it's "connected" but where my *online* laptop [which I'm using now] has the icon with the two monitors and a little globe [by the clock] - hers only has the two monitors with no globe. And no access to the internet.

Any ideas?Does setting a static IP have the same results? When connected to the router can you ping websites from her laptop? Are you able to ping the other machines connected to the router? Oy... two of those questions are out of my league.

I cannot ping websites - it says Cannot Find Host
No idea how to set a static IP or what it means to do so.
Don't know how to ping other machines.

Could you explain how To set a static IP, open up the Control Panel, navigate to Network Connections, right-click the wireless adapter that is connecting to your router, and select Properties. After that, a dialog WINDOW will open. Under the "General" tab, there will be a small list of options. Select Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) and click Properties. In this dialog window you will enter the static IP for that machine, the default gateway, subnet mask, and DNS servers that you wish to you. If you do not know this info, you can find it under this next piece.

To find the IP addresses of the other machines so that you can ping them. Open up the command prompt (WinKey+R then type in 'cmd'), and type 'ipconfig /all'. This will show the IP settings for all adapters on the computer. Here you will find the IP address of the current machine, so that you may ping it, the default gateway, subnet mask, and DNS servers that it is using. This info may be used in the previous step in setting up a static IP address.

Keep up posted with your progress and/or questions.