Unable to connect to my wireless network router from laptop on Windows XP
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From: Jim on 18 Dec 2009 16:54 It can be quite hard to enter the key correctly. All you have found is that you are entering the wrong key consistently. The last time that I added a wireless computer to my lan was several years ago. It took me three attempts to get the key correct even though I could not see any difference. Jim "Edward Diener" <eddielee_no_spam_here(a)tropicsoft.com> wrote in message news:uGJfqnCgKHA.2104(a)TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... >I am trying to connect my laptop via a wireless connection to my D-Link >DIR-655 router. The router supports the 802.11n, 802.11g, and 802.11b >standards. > > The laptop is a Toshiba Satellite Pro L300D which as an Integrated Atheros > 802.11b/g wireless LAN. > > I am running Windows XP on my laptop. > > Under Windows XP on my laptop it finds my wireless network by its name of, > let's say, 'MyWirelessNet' and I click on the entry and then on the > Connect button. It prompts me for my network key and I type in, let's say, > 'Y2YT5689OPEE' which is the key for my router using WPA or WPA2. I then > type this in again in the Confirm area also. I press the OK button. > > It then attempts to connect, taking a very long time to do so with a > message box and a message "Please wait while Windows connects to the > 'MyWirelessNet' network" and another message below it which says "Waiting > for the network...". Finally the Wireless Network Connection message box > closes but I can see the connection has not been made. No error message > shows anything, which is really surprising, and I am not getting a message > which might say that it failed to connect. > > I would have thought that Windows XP would have given me some indication > of why it is not connecting to my router, but I see absolutely nothing. > > Ideas, thoughts, solutions, experiences, or things I might try to get my > laptop to connect wirelessly to the DIR-655 are most welcome. Especially > if anybody knows how I can determine in Windows XP why the connection is > failing. > > If I run a wired network cable from my laptop to the DIR-655 everything is > successful. But naturally I want to connect wirelessly so I can move my > laptop around. Isn't that what laptops are all about ? > > I have also successful connecting my laptop wirelessly to other wireless > router networks. But not to my DIR-655 router. |