Hi,

I have a wireless network at home but am unable to connect to the
office network. However, last week I was at a hotel which had a
wireless network and I had no problem connecting.

Any suggestions ?

Thanks.

brad

Laptop OS: Windows XP
Wireless Router at Home: Linksys

On 19 Nov 2005 07:29:16 -0800, brad wrote:

With such little amount of info, and flat batteries for the crystal
ball the answer would have to be - by magic.

Ask your IT department at work, would be the obvious answer.

Me

On 2005-11-19, brad <b_branford@yahoo.com> wrote:
Could it possibly be that the hotel want to provide a service to their
guests and so deliberatey provide wireless network access, whereas your
employer deliberately stops all unauthorised access to what is presumably
a private and 'mission critical' LAN?

Of course, the hotel's network could have been wide open just because
whoever set it up doesn't know what they're doing.

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In article <1132414156.756244.116780@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups .com>,
brad <b_branford@yahoo.com> wrote:

If you are talking about three different wireless systems:
At home, you probably didn't set up restricted access -- or when you
did, you entered the settings that gave you access. Right?
At the hotel, they want their customers to have access, so they
wouldn't restrict access either.
But why would they leave it open at work? Obviously, a company would
want to keep their network private and secure. You probably need a
password and/or account -- and you have to ask the people that manage
the network.

If you mean you want to connect to the network at work while you are AT
HOME:
Well, you told us how you connect at home (which doesn't make any
difference), but you didn't tell us ANYTHING about the system you are
trying to use -- the work one. You didn't say what kinds of settings or
protocols you are using, what programs, or what went wrong.

Give us a clue -- what program were you using to connect to the network
at work?

"brad" <b_branford@yahoo.com> wrote in news:1132414156.756244.116780
@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com:

You even know about the information in the below link? Most likely the
hotel you were at didn't have a FW or a NAT router setting there or the
FW or router were configured to allow/open the inbound ports to traffic
the application on your machine needed open.

http://www.homenethelp.com/web/expla...arding-dmz.asp

As opposed to you not knowing the above and that you must port forward
the inbound ports on the router so that your connection application
running on the machine can communicate.

You should keep the machine out of the DMZ

Duane