Wifi Connection Showing ''Limited"

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Chennai
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Airtel
I have been an ACT user for the past 2 and a half months and I never had any problem with the connection. Recently last week, I had this problem when I tried to connect to the internet through Wifi in my Laptop.

The connection is established but instead of showing "connected" it is showing as "limited" with an yellow color exclamation symbol near the network icon in the task bar. The data doesn't move neither upload nor download.

The problem is intermittent and it gets rectified by itself. Sometimes in a few minutes and sometimes in a few hours. I am using a TP-Link Router, but all the notification lights are glowing and the internet connection light too glows and blinks rarely.


I have no idea whether the problem is with the ISP or the Router or my devices but the problem is very recent and till this problem arose I never had any hitch with my Internet Connection.

Please help me in this regard.

Regards
 
Hello,

it sounds like your laptop isn't getting an IP address from the router.

could you try plugging in an ethernet cable and seeing if you get one that way?

Your router is a DHCP Server which gives out the IP addresses to devices.

You could always give yourself a static IP address.

Go to Start > Control Panel > Network Connections

Right click your wireless adapter and go to properties

Click on Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IP)

Give yourself the following:

IP Address: 192.168.1.200
Subnet: 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway: 192.168.1.1

Primary DNS: 192.168.1.1
Secondary: leave blank

You may need to confirm the default gateway and DNS by doing ipconfig /all on your desktop and checking there.
 

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