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Old August 17th 18, 01:30 AM posted to alt.windows7.general,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
J. P. Gilliver (John)[_4_]
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I just think that if I could just somehow supply my router's name and
password to this emachine's XP, that all would work. I just can't
remember how to do that. At least from wht is presented to me in
Control Panel.
J


I can only think of two name and password sets that would be in your
router, and I don't think you need either:

1. The wifi "name" (SSID) and password. You've told us you are connected
to the router by cable, so you don't need that.
2. The ID and password you need to connect to your ISP. The router
normally remembers that, and the computers don't need to know it (except
to programme it into the router when first setting up).
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Old August 17th 18, 01:55 AM posted to alt.windows7.general,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Paul[_32_]
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J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message ,
writes:
I just think that if I could just somehow supply my router's name and
password to this emachine's XP, that all would work. I just can't
remember how to do that. At least from wht is presented to me in
Control Panel.
J


I can only think of two name and password sets that would be in your
router, and I don't think you need either:

1. The wifi "name" (SSID) and password. You've told us you are connected
to the router by cable, so you don't need that.
2. The ID and password you need to connect to your ISP. The router
normally remembers that, and the computers don't need to know it (except
to programme it into the router when first setting up).


And with regard to (2), it's possible of the two computers,
that one has already proven the browser can see the Internet.
And it's just the WinXP machine that isn't able to access
the Internet.

Now, one possibility, is the WinXP machine was given
a static address. Then ipconfig would show a "nice number"
and yet the physical layer could be inoperative. Normally
right after a Windows install, networking is set to
"full auto" and both an IP address and the DNS server
addresses are fetched from upstream by using DHCP
protocol. And it's that activity I'm counting on
as proof the network connection works.

And if you think there's something wrong with the
ping protocol (a part of tie ICMP suite), you
can always use PCATTCP for testing. You set up
one machine running the receiver code (echos
traffic). And the device under test becomes
the transmitter with its copy of PCATTCP.

https://superuser.com/questions/6684...-ttcp-or-iperf

The site that was on, has gone now (the last time I checked).
The archive.org copy is still available.

http://www.pcausa.com/Utilities/pcat...ATTCP-0114.zip

( https://web.archive.org/web/20130606...ATTCP-0114.zip )

And a person can also install Wireshark and see transmitted
and received traffic. Not many people are interested in
using such programs, but it's available. On the transmitting
side of the WinXP machine, you could for example prove that
the ping command emitted a packet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireshark

Paul
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Old August 17th 18, 10:22 AM posted to alt.windows7.general,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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On Fri, 17 Aug 2018 01:30:34 +0100, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
wrote:

In message ,
writes:
I just think that if I could just somehow supply my router's name and
password to this emachine's XP, that all would work. I just can't
remember how to do that. At least from wht is presented to me in
Control Panel.
J


I can only think of two name and password sets that would be in your
router, and I don't think you need either:

1. The wifi "name" (SSID) and password. You've told us you are connected
to the router by cable, so you don't need that.
2. The ID and password you need to connect to your ISP. The router
normally remembers that, and the computers don't need to know it (except
to programme it into the router when first setting up).


Ok.
One important thing that I have forgoten in all this is the fact that
I had W7 installed on this Emachine originally because I wanted to see
if W7 would run on it. It did, and further the internet part worked
just fine except it was horrendously slow and I thought to determine
if XP would do any better. The router cat5 connection was the same.
Ergo the hardware part should be okay.
Thanks
J
 




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