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June 26th 08, 07:13 AM
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unusual connection problem
just to get the basics out of the way:
laptop - vista router - linksys - model: BEFW11S4 i'm having trouble connecting to the internet ONLY when i set the password for the network. when the network is unsecured, i have no problems with the connection. however, once i get the password set up, i won't be able to connect at all. signal strength would be excellent [i'd be 2 feet away from the router]; and after diagnostics are ran, the advice given is for "troubleshooting low wireless signal quality problems," which obviously isn't the case. i had assumed it was because my router was set to block WAN requests, so i went and disabled that; still not connecting. i don't know what else to do. any help is greatly appreciated. =] 
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June 26th 08, 09:03 AM
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On Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:13:01 -0700, elocin.j
wrote: just to get the basics out of the way: laptop - vista router - linksys - model: BEFW11S4 i'm having trouble connecting to the internet ONLY when i set the password for the network. when the network is unsecured, i have no problems with the connection. however, once i get the password set up, i won't be able to connect at all. I had that happened when I set the router security to the highest level of two choices (don't recall what it was - WPA?). When I set the router to the lower leve - WEP - my notebook connected fine. Never researched the problem to find out why. signal strength would be excellent [i'd be 2 feet away from the router]; and after diagnostics are ran, the advice given is for "troubleshooting low wireless signal quality problems," which obviously isn't the case. i had assumed it was because my router was set to block WAN requests, so i went and disabled that; still not connecting. i don't know what else to do. any help is greatly appreciated. =]
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June 28th 08, 05:13 AM
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unusual connection problem
Did exactly as you said and it works fine now - wonder why that is though.
Oh well. Thanks a lot! "PD43" wrote: On Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:13:01 -0700, elocin.j wrote: just to get the basics out of the way: laptop - vista router - linksys - model: BEFW11S4 i'm having trouble connecting to the internet ONLY when i set the password for the network. when the network is unsecured, i have no problems with the connection. however, once i get the password set up, i won't be able to connect at all. I had that happened when I set the router security to the highest level of two choices (don't recall what it was - WPA?). When I set the router to the lower leve - WEP - my notebook connected fine. Never researched the problem to find out why. signal strength would be excellent [i'd be 2 feet away from the router]; and after diagnostics are ran, the advice given is for "troubleshooting low wireless signal quality problems," which obviously isn't the case. i had assumed it was because my router was set to block WAN requests, so i went and disabled that; still not connecting. i don't know what else to do. any help is greatly appreciated. =]
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June 28th 08, 06:02 AM
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unusual connection problem
On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 22:13:01 -0700, elocin.j
wrote: Did exactly as you said and it works fine now - wonder why that is though. So do I... but like you, I'm glad it works. Oh well. Thanks a lot! "PD43" wrote: On Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:13:01 -0700, elocin.j wrote: just to get the basics out of the way: laptop - vista router - linksys - model: BEFW11S4 i'm having trouble connecting to the internet ONLY when i set the password for the network. when the network is unsecured, i have no problems with the connection. however, once i get the password set up, i won't be able to connect at all. I had that happened when I set the router security to the highest level of two choices (don't recall what it was - WPA?). When I set the router to the lower leve - WEP - my notebook connected fine. Never researched the problem to find out why. signal strength would be excellent [i'd be 2 feet away from the router]; and after diagnostics are ran, the advice given is for "troubleshooting low wireless signal quality problems," which obviously isn't the case. i had assumed it was because my router was set to block WAN requests, so i went and disabled that; still not connecting. i don't know what else to do. any help is greatly appreciated. =]
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