Ok I'll jump right in the middle of things.
I usually connect my laptop to Internet through wifi at home and it works flawlessly. Problems come up when I try to connect to a friend of mine's wifi. The first time I noticed that when establishing connection Windows gave me "Limited access" and I was not able to surf the web. I found out that was an ARP issue. Typed arp -d
in the cmd and everything started working as it should have. Moreover when I came back home and connected to my wifi there were no problem. Everytime I go to his house I have to arp -d
my laptop.
My friend's router is a Sitecom 300N X3 (WL-348) and has DHCP enabled. Why is it working in this way?
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It's most likely an issue with your friend's router. Maybe it takes too long for the ARP response and it times out. See if there is a way with your hardware to change the time out for an ARP repsonse.– Mr. MascaroOct 27, 2014 at 18:19
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I got a sneak peek of the Advanced tab of my NIC and I found an 'interesting' item called Offload ARP. In a nutshell it's a feature that, if disabled, can wake up the laptop when receives ARP requests. I bet it won't work but I'll give it a try. However I'll keep on searching for other solutions– m2citOct 27, 2014 at 22:12
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