Connect to neighbours Wifi on PC

molliemoo | 12:37 Fri 30th Sep 2011 | Technology

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Hi
Not very clever with computers.
My neighbour has given me permisssion to use her wifi and given me the password. It works fine on my daughters laptop but not on my PC
I have an icon on the taskbar saying i am connected and signal strength is good but am unable to load any web pages.
Any suggestions as to what i need to do please :)

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BigRooster

If your pc isn't automatically giving you different IP address to hers you may have the same so you won't be allowed to connect to the network even if the connection is good.

rojash

"If you share her wifi surely you are sharing her 'network' and will be able to see her private files (I wouldn't like that) "
Only if
(a) she has shared her files
(b) you are both on the same workgroup
(c) her firewall allows it
(d) (if she's on Vista or Windows 7) She's also given you a local user account on her computer.

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