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In the end it was the hardware after all. I exchanged the PCI card for a Lynksys G adapter and all it took was to assign the DNS manually and it connected just fine. All the help was greatly appreciated and extremely informative and educational. :) Thanks again!

I can ping the router from the XP machine just fine. Comes back average <3ms. In the adapter's configuration panel I'm looking at the following: Channel Plan: DOMAIN_FROM_EEPROM (drop down choices are ETSI, FCC, France, IC, MKK, MKK1, Spain, TELEC) Receive/Transmit Buffers: 64 (both) Software...

There are no more third party programs installed. When I ping my local IP I get "bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128" Every other attempt gives me the response "Destination host unreachable." I seem to be having difficulty booting into safemode.

Well I did a complete network reboot and nothing changed so I went through and manually entered the IP/subnet/gateway in the IPv4 properties. I made sure to change the octet to something other than what was given for the XP laptops's IP. While the problem machine now recognizes the network's...

Lame Upon typing "ipconfig /renew" into the command prompt I was given this result: Windows IP Configuration And error occurred while renewing interface Wireless Network Connection 2 : unable to contact your DHCP server. Request has timed out. I did try shutting down the modem and router for...

Sorry, I forgot to mention I've tried disabling the IPv6 and thus far the Troubleshooting hasn't been able to fix or allow me to change anything. As I mentioned this is a fresh custom desktop build. There is no 3rd party software installed other than miscellaneous programs like...

Same issue, seemingly no solution Okay, I've just completed a new build and installed Windows 7. It's a desktop and, unfortunately, I'm unable to connect directly to the modem so I've installed a PCI WiFI card. It's just a cheap-o for temporary use and could be the problem, but I suspect it's...