Wireless Network Problems

[Darthshearer]

Guys WTF am I doing wrong.

Ive brought my lappy to my gfriends house and cannot connect to the WLAN even though I am putting in the correct WPA key.

I am using Vista and it just says it cannot connect.

Thw Router is a Belkin 54G and I have tried going into the router config to update the WPA but it keeps falling, could this be it?

Ive check the firewall and no problems there. Her house mate uses the same WPA and its fine

 

[MYstIC G]

caps lock?

in all seriousness though, does the router have the ability to support your laptop. If all the IPs are assigned or it requires some sort of configuration on the router it might be cock blocking you

 

[xane]

Make sure it's not being blocked by MAC addressing ?

 

[nath]

When the vista laptop prompts you for the password, what does it say exactly? Some newer routers use passkey's as well as passphrases - you may see an option "type in the passphrase instead" below the password prompt, click that and you then type in the wpa key.

 

[Darthshearer]

Well, update on this.

Gfriend got a new router sent through from Talktalk and now I can connect, so can she, but her house mate cant, just stays "identifying"

Any ideas :S

 

[Edmond]

Dont worry about it, your connected, she's connected

fuck the housemate......lol

 

[Zenith.UK]

Could be the old Vista not playing with SPI capable routers.
Here's the workaround for Vista.

- Click start
- Type: cmd
- Right-click cmd.exe when it appears under Applications
- Click Run As Administrator
- Type the following: netsh int tcp set global autotuninglevel=disabled
- Press enter
- Restart your computer

If this fixes the problem, then your router is most likely ignoring your
request to disable SPI.

 

[Darthshearer]

Right, tried that and its just saying "local only"

 

[Darthshearer]

Weird

Plugged ethernet cable into lappy & router i.e hard wired it. Set the router up on lappy (password etc)

Now works fine