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From: Paul E Collins on 22 Oct 2009 09:47 Hi. I have a wireless router (BT Home Hub) that works fine with my primary computer, and worked fine with a previous Vaio laptop, but won't seem to accept connections from a new Vaio laptop. The router shows up in the "Choose a wireless network" / View Available Wireless Networks dialogue, but when I select it and enter the WPA key, I just get "Waiting for the network" for about 20 or 30 seconds, then it silently closes that progress window without telling me what the error was. What does this mean? Bad password, network out of range, or what? It seems stupid that it doesn't explain why the connection failed. Eq.
From: Jack [MVP-Networking] on 23 Oct 2009 17:24
Hi Disable temp. the Wireless security (WPA), and try to make a connection while you are close to the Wireless Router. If it works, establish again the security using a new key. If it does not, then try to follow this process, http://www.ezlan.net/wireless.html Jack (MS, MVP-Networking). "Paul E Collins" <find_my_real_address(a)CL4.org> wrote in message news:TtCdnY1nzf7p_33XnZ2dnUVZ8vqdnZ2d(a)bt.com... > Hi. > > I have a wireless router (BT Home Hub) that works fine with my primary > computer, and worked fine with a previous Vaio laptop, but won't seem to > accept connections from a new Vaio laptop. > > The router shows up in the "Choose a wireless network" / View Available > Wireless Networks dialogue, but when I select it and enter the WPA key, I > just get "Waiting for the network" for about 20 or 30 seconds, then it > silently closes that progress window without telling me what the error > was. > > What does this mean? Bad password, network out of range, or what? It seems > stupid that it doesn't explain why the connection failed. > > Eq. > > |