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Wireless Bridge won't allow Internet (or anything else)
Hello,
Firstly I apologize, but if this has been posted and answered in a previous post I have not been able to find it, but then I'm a bit of a forum beginner so... *shrugs*
Anyway, I just loaded my daughter's new computer with Windows 7. Everything was fine. I had a wired direct connection to my linksys router, downloaded updates, surfed the Internet. Life was large.
But my home is a bit older, and her bedroom is upstairs, whereas my office is downstairs. So I use an external 3com wireless bridge, which connects to a cisco access point connected to my linksys.
But when I do this, my daughter's PC doesn't recognize the network as my home network, but rather a public one, and won't give me access to anything outside her own computer.
I can ping the 3com bridge from her PC, and from my own pc downstairs, so it's not the wireless connection, so I'm thinking it's something in Windows 7 that's not allowing traffic on what it's deeming to be a security risk network.
I'm not as experienced as some when it comes to computers but is it possible that when you designate a network as your "home" network that Windows captures some information about that network? i.e. MAC addresses of your router etc, and so if you connect in a different way (via a bridge) it locks you out?
*shrugs* Regardless of why it's doing this, I need to find a way to convince my computer that it's on the home network and it's safe to surf etc... Any help would be greatly appreciated, because at this point my only thought would be to re-load the computer again, but this time using the wireless bridge during the install rather than hooking it up after so that it's the "first" network Windows sees so that I can then designate it as the "Home" network.
Once again, thank you in advance for any of your suggestions. :)