Not Receiving Enough Network Packets To Surf The Web?

Hello All, I ran into this problem about two days ago. I have a Asus EEE PC 900 laptop running Windows XP Home. I DO NOT use a modem or router. I connect wireless to someones network (which of course i dont know who it is or how far it is from me) I connect to a Linksys unsecured network. I get good to very good (some times excellent connection from it)

The name of my adapter is: Atheros AR5007EG wireless network adapter

Ok so my problem is as follows...
Two days ago i was on the internet, and all of a sudden i Lost service ( usually when this happens i wait it out and it comes back)
But it hasn't.
So I'm checking through my settings and i noticed that im sending way more network packets than receiving. Last i checked it was around 40,000 sent and 5 received. So I wait and wait and wait and the most packets it would go up to is 90 while as sending is still in the thousands.

It also says im successfully connected with good to very good connection status (but yet i cannot surf the web because i do not have enough network packets)

I tried different locations in my house (that didnt work)
I uninstall and reinstalled my network adaptor (that didnt work)
I turned off and on the wireless switch (that didnt work)
Im wondering if this has something to do with my laptop or the other persons network???

That's my 1st question and my 2nd question is : how can I increase the received network packets?
Or is that something I could even control??
THANKS!!!!

 

1. you likely don't have an IP address anymore with that response.
2. you can't control it.

Time to bake some cookies and make nice with the neighbors.

 

Chances are they became aware of you stealing bandwidth and adding some filturing via mac address or other security preventing you from getting online.

 

I was thinking that they turned DHCP off or they filtered. It would seem adding a password would be more effective. People have interesting reasons for not turning their password on.

 

Some wireless routers, if you were auto connecting with no wep or nothing and the router is changed to use wep/wpa it will still connect, just not pass traffic. Its a strange situation but i see it happen with some of the older linksys routers that i have to deal with.