Re: Did hotel wireless screw me over ?
From: Jim (null_at_null.com)
Date: 03/21/04
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Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2004 16:58:35 -0800
Is your router broadcasting it's SSID? If not, enable it. Second, out of
curiosity, try changing the SSID to same one used at the hotel (both router
and client). If that works, then change them back to your original SSID,
check again.
What I'm thinking here is that somehow the adapter is confused, possibly
because your home and hotel used the same SSID?? Or your home router is not
broadcasting, but the hotel was, etc.
One other possibility is that if you have broadcasting OFF (I'm talking
about the "broadcasted" SSID, the top box in the Windows Wireless config
dialog, not the preferred network, below it, that could simply have been
obtained from a prior broadcast), and a neighbor has their broadcasting ON,
your client will *always* attempt to attach to the neighbor's wireless
system, even if your client and router's SSID match, and the neighbor's
doesn't ( http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;811427 ).
HTH
Jim
"rabid" <spamrclarke@idirect.com> wrote in message
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> Not a networking expert.
> Have 2 desktops (win2k) 1 laptop (xp home)
> All ran perfectly, off the hop, with both a dlink and the upgraded smc
> wireless. Went to Buffalo last week, was able to pick up wireless from
> my room, signed in and used it....Got home, my wireless does not work
> any longer....I get the message "wireless connection unavailable" in
> network connections.. When I connect with the cat cable everything
> works, its only wireless...
>
> I have tried the following...
> I updated to latest firmware for smc router
> wep disabled in router, and in wireless connection properties
> firewall on laptop disabled
> Removal and reinstall of nic, wireless, 1394, mac in device manager
> Moving stuff to and from "network bridge"
> latest drivers installed for the wireless card - intersil prism
> wireless lan pci card
> ssid is being broadcast, the prism software shows it scanning right
> past the channel
> authentication on and off
> dhcp is enabled and strangely enough I can see it in the router
> software in the dhcp client log
>
> everything was working perfectly before. My laptop is 10 feet from the
> router, even tried it 2 feet away. Why is this not working ? When I
> run the connection wizard it shows the wireless card as " disconnected
> hardware:" . Wireless available networks show nothing, I deleted the
> hotel in preferred networks... My buddy also connects via wireless
> using my network but he is not here. If he was, at least he could
> confirm or not if the router was somehow the problem
>
> appreciate any comments, about 3 hours troubleshooting this so far...
> next step Maybe I will reimage from 3 months ago and see if it will
> work
>
> thanks
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