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Old 07-30-2007, 03:48 PM   #1 (permalink)
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I have a home wireless network with 4 laptops and 1 desktop. A new Toshiba
laptop running Vista Home was added about 1 month ago and all was fine. THen
last week we had to replace our wireless router and since then I cannot
connect the Toshiba at all. All the other computers running XP Pro are fine.
I reinstalled the driver for the wireless adapter - no help. I have run the
diagnostic that comes up when you can't find a network to connect to and I
get a message saying that Vista can't find any problems - contact my ISP. 45
minutes with my ISP Tech desk and they have no idea what's going on.

I upgraded to VISTA Ultimate during this process thinking that might be more
robust like the old xp home vs pro issues. no luck.

It will connect to the internet if I pull the connection out of the desktop
and put it in the laptop so it's definitely a wifi issue.
THanks
klsanders
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Old 07-30-2007, 03:54 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Addendum - my son's brand new SONY with VISTA business connected fine before
thte router change and continues to connect just fiine.

"klsanders" wrote:
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> I have a home wireless network with 4 laptops and 1 desktop. A new Toshiba
> laptop running Vista Home was added about 1 month ago and all was fine. THen
> last week we had to replace our wireless router and since then I cannot
> connect the Toshiba at all. All the other computers running XP Pro are fine.
> I reinstalled the driver for the wireless adapter - no help. I have run the
> diagnostic that comes up when you can't find a network to connect to and I
> get a message saying that Vista can't find any problems - contact my ISP. 45
> minutes with my ISP Tech desk and they have no idea what's going on.
>
> I upgraded to VISTA Ultimate during this process thinking that might be more
> robust like the old xp home vs pro issues. no luck.
>
> It will connect to the internet if I pull the connection out of the desktop
> and put it in the laptop so it's definitely a wifi issue.
> THanks
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Old 07-30-2007, 04:02 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Have you tried turning off WEP or WPA?

Alternatively, try typing the key in hexadecimal rather than ascii characters.


"klsanders" wrote:
Quote:
> Addendum - my son's brand new SONY with VISTA business connected fine before
> thte router change and continues to connect just fiine.
>
> "klsanders" wrote:
>
Quote:
> > I have a home wireless network with 4 laptops and 1 desktop. A new Toshiba
> > laptop running Vista Home was added about 1 month ago and all was fine. THen
> > last week we had to replace our wireless router and since then I cannot
> > connect the Toshiba at all. All the other computers running XP Pro are fine.
> > I reinstalled the driver for the wireless adapter - no help. I have run the
> > diagnostic that comes up when you can't find a network to connect to and I
> > get a message saying that Vista can't find any problems - contact my ISP. 45
> > minutes with my ISP Tech desk and they have no idea what's going on.
> >
> > I upgraded to VISTA Ultimate during this process thinking that might be more
> > robust like the old xp home vs pro issues. no luck.
> >
> > It will connect to the internet if I pull the connection out of the desktop
> > and put it in the laptop so it's definitely a wifi issue.
> > THanks
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Old 07-30-2007, 04:16 PM   #4 (permalink)
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I can't get to the point of typing in the key. I'm not sure that I can get
to the point of turning off WEP or WPA. Aren't they part of that same
process. I'm not even getting a possible network to try and join/login to.
We live in an extremely wired neighborhood and I used to have 6 or 7 networks
show up as available. No I see nothing.

"BurrWalnut" wrote:
Quote:
> Have you tried turning off WEP or WPA?
>
> Alternatively, try typing the key in hexadecimal rather than ascii characters.
>
>
> "klsanders" wrote:
>
Quote:
> > Addendum - my son's brand new SONY with VISTA business connected fine before
> > thte router change and continues to connect just fiine.
> >
> > "klsanders" wrote:
> >
Quote:
> > > I have a home wireless network with 4 laptops and 1 desktop. A new Toshiba
> > > laptop running Vista Home was added about 1 month ago and all was fine. THen
> > > last week we had to replace our wireless router and since then I cannot
> > > connect the Toshiba at all. All the other computers running XP Pro are fine.
> > > I reinstalled the driver for the wireless adapter - no help. I have run the
> > > diagnostic that comes up when you can't find a network to connect to and I
> > > get a message saying that Vista can't find any problems - contact my ISP. 45
> > > minutes with my ISP Tech desk and they have no idea what's going on.
> > >
> > > I upgraded to VISTA Ultimate during this process thinking that might be more
> > > robust like the old xp home vs pro issues. no luck.
> > >
> > > It will connect to the internet if I pull the connection out of the desktop
> > > and put it in the laptop so it's definitely a wifi issue.
> > > THanks
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