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I set up my mates brand new D-link Sky Router, and connected my laptop via wireless without any problems. For some reason his laptop won't connect to the internet. It connects to the router, but reports "local" access only.
It connects via ethernet to the internet, which suggests a wireless connectivity problem on his laptop. I disabled the Windows Firewall, and the antivirus, but without success. None of the "diagnose and repair options" worked.
I brought his laptop home and connected it to my wireless LAN. It worked without problems, immediate internet access.
Any suggestions gratefully accepted.
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If the sky device is using N try switching down to G, and vice versa for laptop.
One of my laptops does this now and then and a reboot will fix it. Some Wireless cards in laptops are just that good.
Did setting IP values manually on the laptop help?
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Wrong WPA key.
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That was my thought 
Or, the router is configured to only accept connections by MAC address and one laptop is permissioned but not the other.
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You won't even get local connectivity with the wrong key!
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And WIndows 7 at least is clear about this, older OS's are less friendly in the errors.
Guess is that the laptop in question has an Intel WiFi chip, and might even be a Dell XPS as seen the same happen with a number of these.
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Windows 7 is a joy I have yet to experience... I can wait 
XP and Vista have been OK for me- they correctly report "Local access only" and a reboot usually fixes it, but it may be that I've had different chips etc.
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The author of the above post is a thinkbroadband moderator but it does not constitute an official statement on behalf of thinkbroadband.
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If the sky device is using N try switching down to G, and vice versa for laptop.
It's a mix of b and g. Did setting IP values manually on the laptop help? Not tried that yet.
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Wrong WPA key. No, checked and double checked.
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"Windows 7 is a joy I have yet to experience... I can wait"
Networking Win7 and XP can be quite interesting: set Win7 to Work group and by default (don't know if they have fixed it yet) there is (or was) an extremely serious security issue with Win7...
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