[access-uk] Re: Connecting to a router

  • From: "Carol Pearson" <carol.pearson29@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 23:01:32 -0000

Hi,

I just abandoned using the Broadcom.

Please let me know how you get on.

--
Carol
carol.pearson29@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: G. McFarlane 
  To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2008 2:37 AM
  Subject: [access-uk] Re: Connecting to a router


  Thanks Carol
  I shall try your advice when I get back to the laptop. It's a bit erratic I 
know - the Dell laptop can easily find hotspots and work well with them - it's 
when I try to connect to my own network I have the problem - the Broadcom 
program seems to be getting in the way.
  I have a Linksys or a D-link router - I've had it so long that I can't 
remember which. I purchased an N gauge Netgear a while ago and had the most 
dreadful problems with it - when I changed the name andset the encryption my 
remote PCs (the wireless ones) just couldn't see it. I spent hours on the phone 
to Netgear India and eventually was wrongly accused that my blindness was what 
was causing the problem. It certainly wasn't, but with great frustration I gave 
up. Now anyway with this new problem which has emerged I've gone and bought an 
Edimax N gauge router, so I hope this solves the problem. I'll try your 
suggestions first on my existing one though.
  Thanks again for your help.
  Gordon
    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Carol Pearson 
    To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
    Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 1:26 PM
    Subject: [access-uk] Re: Connecting to a router


    Gordon,

    I've had this problem too and have solved it now that I have a new router.  
(Exactly what went wrong I don't know ...)

    Anyway, before you go out and buy a new router, I think the Broadcom thing 
is not very useable for us.  Check to see what is managing your wireless by 
going into your systray.  If it's Intel PROSet/wireless then you may change 
this by right clicking and select Windows to manage your wireless.  (I was once 
advised not to do this but actually I found that having played about a bit and 
changed over to Windows, then back again to Intel, I've ended up with a stable 
wireless connection.)

    I hope this might help a bit.  Incidentally, what router are you using?

    Come back if you think I might be able to help further ... though I'm off 
out now for most of the day ...

    --
    Carol
    carol.pearson29@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

      ----- Original Message ----- 
      From: G. McFarlane 
      To: blindtech@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ; access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
      Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 3:35 AM
      Subject: [access-uk] Connecting to a router


      Hi 
      I have 2 Dell Inspiron laptops which recently I've tried to connect to my 
Lynxis router. They connect and even get through using the password key, but on 
the Wireless icon in Network Connections in Control Panel it says I am 
connected with limited or no connectivity. I've removed firewalls and rely on 
the router's firewall. I've gone through the setting and can see nothing 
obvious. The strange thing is that I've got other machines connecting perfectly 
well wirelessly and even my N95 does so without trouble.
      I'm wondering if I should be using the Windows Wireless control or 
perhaps there's another way. Strange that both Dell machines have the same 
problem. They seem to use a Broadcom program.
      Has anyone any ideas?
      Gordon McFarlane


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