Vista - Can find every wireless network BUT my own?

Im currently traveling and living at my uncle's house abroad. My uncle has a wireless network, but my laptop can sense every other network BUT their's......

I even got connected to wireless via my own ipod touch, my uncle's laptop (window XP).

Please help....

Is your uncle using 802.11N? its a wireless standard there is 802.11g and 802.11b which are the standard N is quite new , if he is using that and your adapter only works on G and B that could be the issue

Is your uncle's router setup to broadcast the SSID?

Im holding that router rite now
its a Linksys model WRT54GC and it saids "compact, wireless G broadband router"
my laptop is a HP pavilion DV3

what does this mean??? if its the situation mentioned above what do I do?

The cmoputer and your uncle's router have to be using the same frequencies.

So

The cmoputer and your uncle's router have to be using the same frequencies.

So if he has a G and you have an N, your laptop wont connect to it. They have to be the same or have the same capabilities.

how do i check if i have N or whatever, and if we dont have teh same frequentcy can i change that?

good answer

also the N factor

I would look up the specifications online. Just do a search on the router and the laptop. That should tell you if they share a version of the wirelss types.

Unless one of them has multiple frequency capability, I doubt they can be changed.