On Nov 20, 2:40*pm, "M Skabialka" <mskabia...@xxxxxx> wrote:
Quote:
> A friend with a vista PC was having problems connecting wirelessly to a
> router. *It had been working OK for months then she decided to downloadthe
> MS Office 2007 trial. *Since then her wireless connection stopped working
> (though I have no idea why this happened at this time). *Their other
> computer was also having a really slow ethernet connection so I had them buy
> a new cisco wireles router with his new PC. *I told the Vista machine to
> connect to the new SSID but I had set up WPA on the router and vista didn't
> have that option. *So then I changed it to WEP on the router but vista said
> it couldn't connect. *A help menu had me run some netsh commands about adhoc
> and infrastructure but it still didn't work so I rebooted. *Now the vista PC
> doesn't even see any wireless networks available, but a laptop I tried asa
> test still sees three SSIDs including the new one.
>
> What are my troubleshooting steps in vista to find out what is wrong with
> her wireless connection and how to fix it?
> And how can I find out what is still making the network still slow - the
> other machine is brand new with WinXP?
Seen this before, but under XP.
On the Vista PC, look at all anti-virus / firewall settings. These
can "block" access to the wireless network SSID.
On the Windows XP, turn of the "QoS Scheduler." Most "home" router do
not have this "feature" implemented correctly.