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thewolfe

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I'm in a hotel room that offers "wired" internet service.

I'm trying Connectify on my Win7 machine.

I'm trying to use it with my itouch.

My touch sees the wifi but has an ip address of 169.........

My computer sees the touch on Connectivity. Should this work?
 

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Hi thewolf,

Someone correct me if i am wrong but if your IP Address starts with 169.XX.XX.XX you have an invalid IP Address and will not be able to access the Internet.

You will need to speak with the hotel if you can't connect, they will know more about their network and help resolve it.

Regards,
JDobbsy1987
 

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Hi thewolf,

Someone correct me if i am wrong but if your IP Address starts with 169.XX.XX.XX you have an invalid IP Address and will not be able to access the Internet.

You will need to speak with the hotel if you can't connect, they will know more about their network and help resolve it.

Regards,
JDobbsy1987

Yes, IP addresses beginning 169.XXX.XXX.XXX tell you that an IP address that will connect you with the Internet has not been assigned.
 

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Hi thewolf,

Someone correct me if i am wrong but if your IP Address starts with 169.XX.XX.XX you have an invalid IP Address and will not be able to access the Internet.

You will need to speak with the hotel if you can't connect, they will know more about their network and help resolve it.

Regards,
JDobbsy1987

Yes, IP addresses beginning 169.XXX.XXX.XXX tell you that an IP address that will connect you with the Internet has not been assigned.

Cheers for the confirmation gurustevie...

@thewolf,

It's probably best speaking with the hotel but stick around as some network guru may be of help ;)
 

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Sorry, I Misunderstood,

Try temporarily disabling your firewall and see if it connects then??

I have just tested with my Nokia E71 and it wouldn't connect to the internet while my Firewall was on but as soon as i switched it off and connected again it was fine.

If that works then what firewall are you using?

Regards,
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I'm using Microsoft Essentials. And that didn't see to help.

I did have this happen once before when I was at a friend's house and it got the "169.......address. I reset his wireless and then when I got back to the house after a short outing, it worked and had the correct IP address.

That was using itouch with his wireless router.
 

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That was it. With my firewall off all is well. How can I do booth. Not crazy about being in the hotel with no firewall. I'll look for "exceptions".
 

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You are right, you don't want to leave the firewall off, what firewall are you using?
 

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Windows
 

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I was having a challenge with Windows Firewall, i added Connectify to the allow list but it still didn't work.

I will do some more testing...
 

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I found settings under "Connecting Security Rules. Added the ip address for the touch and turned on the firewall. Seems to be working and since I'm not keen on security stuff, I'm assuming I'm protected.
 

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Ye that should be fine if you are just allowing that 1 I.P. address out.

Glad that it is fixed :thumbsup:
 

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I found settings under "Connecting Security Rules. Added the ip address for the touch and turned on the firewall. Seems to be working and since I'm not keen on security stuff, I'm assuming I'm protected.

Well thought the above was working . Got a valid ip address on my touch but still not getting through with the exception.

Must not have done something correct but out of my expertise.
 

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I was having a bit of trouble with this too, i added the exceptions in but still didn't work while Windows Firewall was switched on.

I will investigate...
 

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Got this back from my e-mail to Connectify support. "Could you generate and attach a log file by going to the tray icon's Support menu and clicking 'Generate Log File'?"

Did one with and w/o Window's Firewall on.

Stay tuned.
 

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Got this back from my e-mail to Connectify support. "Could you generate and attach a log file by going to the tray icon's Support menu and clicking 'Generate Log File'?"

Did one with and w/o Window's Firewall on.

Stay tuned.

Sorry i didn't get back to you on this... i couldn't figure it out so hopefully they will be able help.

Thank you for getting back to us.

Regards,
JDobbsy1987
 

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8GB Corsair DDR3 XMS3, PC3-12800
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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650
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3 x 24" {Extended Display}
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1920 x 1080
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300GB Seagate Barracuda 7200
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