Connecting a PC to Apple Airport

topic posted Sun, January 22, 2006 - 12:45 AM by  Brad
I have a quick question that I hope you may either know the answer to or may be able to redirect me. I have fruitlessly searched the internet and Apple sites and found no answer ...

I have an airport wireless router that my Macs love. Two people have tried to connect PC laptops and gotten what I consider to be odd results: The computers see the connection and register a strong signal and good speed. But Internet Explorer does not work. It seems to feel that there is in fact no connection and tells me: "The Page Cannot Be Displayed." I have also tried the AOL preloaded onto one of the laptops and it likewise fails to see a connection.

I have to confess to being only vaguely familiar with Windows, but I have poked through the internet settings in IE Tools, but yielded no results.

Have you any advice on why two different PCs with wireless cards see my Airport Router and read its signal, yet the applications do not recognize it?

Thanks for any help!

Brad
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Brad
Los Angeles
  • Re: Connecting a PC to Apple Airport

    Fri, February 3, 2006 - 6:02 AM
    Brad,
    I am asumming that the PC's are useing DHCP to get and IP address. Have you looked at the IP address on the PC to see if is getting one that matches your IP configueration? Can the PC's ping a local compuer like one of your mac's?
    Dave

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