Cannot Connect .... atall

6 Oct 2007 10:30 AM

DaVePrInCe

Hi guys and gals,

i am an advanced computer user, but am stumped by this one and thought I'd
come here cos you'll know the answer in a flash.

right, my sister has a packard bell H something series with built in Ralink
wlan card. In my house I have a netgear DG834 v3 router which I've set MAC
address filtering on and a WEP key.

but no matter what happens, where I am in the house, how close/far from the
antenna's range, it just won't connect. I keep getting the "the wireless
network you are trying to cnnect to is no longer available or in range"
message.

help!

many thanks

Dave

6 Oct 2007 12:56 PM

Robert L (MS-MVP)

Can you connect the wireless without security?

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"DaVePrInCe" <DaVePrI***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:F64E9A9C-3AF0-4A14-AF49-0F6D34ABCD0F@microsoft.com...
> Hi guys and gals,
>
> i am an advanced computer user, but am stumped by this one and thought I'd
> come here cos you'll know the answer in a flash.
>
> right, my sister has a packard bell H something series with built in
> Ralink
> wlan card. In my house I have a netgear DG834 v3 router which I've set MAC
> address filtering on and a WEP key.
>
> but no matter what happens, where I am in the house, how close/far from
> the
> antenna's range, it just won't connect. I keep getting the "the wireless
> network you are trying to cnnect to is no longer available or in range"
> message.
>
> help!
>
> many thanks
>
> Dave

6 Oct 2007 6:58 PM

Jack (MVP-Networking).

Hi
Your post is a little confusing. What is Not connecting?
Your computer, your sister computer, all computers?
If your computer works with the wireless, and your sister's does not,
reconfigure the WEP on her computer.
See here, http://www.ezlan.net/faq.html#wep
Jack (MVP-Networking).

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"DaVePrInCe" <DaVePrI***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:F64E9A9C-3AF0-4A14-AF49-0F6D34ABCD0F@microsoft.com...
> Hi guys and gals,
>
> i am an advanced computer user, but am stumped by this one and thought I'd
> come here cos you'll know the answer in a flash.
>
> right, my sister has a packard bell H something series with built in
> Ralink
> wlan card. In my house I have a netgear DG834 v3 router which I've set MAC
> address filtering on and a WEP key.
>
> but no matter what happens, where I am in the house, how close/far from
> the
> antenna's range, it just won't connect. I keep getting the "the wireless
> network you are trying to cnnect to is no longer available or in range"
> message.
>
> help!
>
> many thanks
>
> Dave

7 Oct 2007 11:39 PM

DaVePrInCe

sorry for the confusion jack,

all my household computers that use wireless work fine! every single one of
them .... apart from this one, it cannot connect to it if the router is using
WEP, WPA, WPA SPK, or even when it's unsecured. so nothing ....

but the confusing part is, the right drivers are installed, ive tweaked a
few of the device properites such as "agressive searching" etc, just to give
it that little boost and also IT'S PICKING UP ALL LOCAL WIRELESS NETWORKS!
(even connect to other people's) but simply not connecting to my home one.
its as if there's an invisible factor unrelated to the router or the laptop
affgecting it :S

and ive tried EVERYTHING!

all my other XPSP2 laptops/desktops WILL connect to my netgear DG834 v3 no
problem, and some of them are even using the same onboard intel chipset (inc
NIC) and will connect! i am stumped