What bothers me is that not seeing the wireless networks is something I have
caused somehow - so I have made a bad situation (cannot connect) worse
(cannot see networks to connect to). Since I broke it, now I have to fix
it..!
"smlunatick" <yveslec@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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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 download the
> 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 as
> a
> 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.