In news:044D1DDE-9760-458A-A93C-AE7AF3392840@microsoft.com,
badger man <badgerman@discussions.microsoft.com> typed:
> I am having trouble getting out to the Internet when I hook on to a
> wireless network outside my office and at home - like at a restaurant
> or wireless hot spot.
>
> I use window xp which is completely up to date w all updates. I also
> use Norton's Internet security and anti virus.
>
> When I go to a new wireless network and do a view wireless networks -
> I can see and connect to the new network. Meaning I can see the
> network in my "network connection" and under "details" I can see the
> IP address of the network I am hooked to.
>
> But, even though I am connect to the new wireless I can not get "out"
> to the Internet.
>
> I have Window's firewall turned off, as i use the Nortons firewall in
> normal use and then even turn my Norton's firewall off and I still
> can not get to the Internet on the new wireless network.
>
> I have even typed the wireless IP address into the Norton's excepted
> list and I still can not connect.
>
> Any suggestions on how to get to the internet on new wireless networks
>
> Thanks

Don't disable your firewall when you're connected to any network, even for
testing. I don't use NIS so I'm not sure what it blocks, but if you're going
to disable it, make sure you enable the Windows firewall before connecting -
it doesn't block any outbound ports, so it likely won't prevent you from
connecting.

What are the symptoms you're seeing? Page not found? ?

Is this a company laptop? If so, it may be locked down to prevent you from
doing this.

Presuming that is not the case, and presuming this happens on *all* your
wireless connection attempts and you know they don't require any sort of
fancy authentication, if you type

ipconfig /all

in a command prompt, you should see the default gatway & DNS servers you've
been assigned by the DHCP server, provided you got one, and can try pinging
each in turn....if you can ping both the gateway IP and DNS IP successfully,
try pinging www.yahoo.com or something to see if that's working. If so,
check your internet options in control panel and look at the connection
settings.