Here's the beef.
Router is installed and working fine. Has been for about a year.
All the other machines except my desktop and laptop connect via a wired LAN and work fine.
My laptop works fine and connects wirelessly.
My desktop does not.

I connect using a wireless card, OS is Windows 7 home edition upgrade.
I can access the router settings but can only connect to the internet through the wireless network if I leave the network unsecured. Any security settings I put on won't allow me to connect.

I've tried Hex, WPA, every option my router settings will allow, but whenever I set those as the wireless settings on my PC, it finds the network but tells me that the security settings don't match, even when they do.

This happens once every 6 months or so, normally hard resetting the router works but not this time. I am currently posting this through an unsecured wireless network that belongs to my landlord...

Any suggestions or similar experiences and your solutions would be greatly appreciated.
( WormuIus, Sun 11 Apr 2010, 13:31, 5 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

i have no idea
in fact I didn't read it as I have no technical knowledge. I just wanted to post something

good afternoon!
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sun 11 Apr 2010, 13:33, Reply)

have you tried
creating a USB settings drive.

I dont remember the exact steps, but in the Vista OS there is an option to create this on a flash drive, which then passes the settings to all computers. I'd imagine it also exists in W7, but I've not used that with wireless yet.
(bamboozled Can hear you getting fatter, Sun 11 Apr 2010, 13:38, Reply)

Remove all the wires from your desktop.
Wires interfere with wireless networks.
( Dr Preference AjcuiVd289, Sun 11 Apr 2010, 13:50, Reply)

I don't know of any known issues with WiFi encription under 7
Have you done anything to piss off Edgeworth recently? ;-)

Make absolutely sure you are putting the same password into both the router and 7, the easiest way I've found to do this is to type the prospective new password into notepad or similar and copy and paste it into both locations.

"Objection!"
(bill, Sun 11 Apr 2010, 14:01, Reply)

You're looking in the wrong place
If all other machines connect to your wireless network without problem, then the problem isn't in your router. Your desktop is the cause of the issue.

Windows 7 has all kinds of security weirdness in it, I'd look into that side of things rather than trying to find problems in your router. The first thing I'd do, though, is try updating your wireless card's drivers and firmware.
( Kroney, Sun 11 Apr 2010, 15:49, Reply)