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Netgear problem - HELP !!!

  • 23-06-2008 9:22pm
    #1
    Mick1973
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 42 ✭


    I've A Netgear DG834G v4 wireless router. The Main PC goes through that and works fine (after having a hard time setting it up). Have a Dell inspiron Laptop and all wireless internet was going grand until one morning the laptop stopped recognising a signal from the router. When I go into network connections, it says nothing there. When I try another way, it shows me the signal from Netgear. The firewall is switched off for now, so it's not that.

    Anyone else have a problem like this ?

    I really don't want to reinstall the router since it took me forever to get the bloody thing going in the first place.


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  • #2
    dub45
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 12,450 Mod ✭✭✭✭dub45


    Well I hate to say it but the netgear is usually pretty easy to set up. What exactly were you doing wrong originally?
    When I try another way, it shows me the signal from Netgear. ..

    What is this other way?


  • #3
    Mick1973
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 42 ✭Mick1973


    I can either go into network Connections through the control panel or through a link in the bottom right hand corner of the screen.

    I did NOT find it easy at all (although I am a bit of an idiot with computers !!!).


  • #4
    MrVestek
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,258 ✭✭✭MrVestek


    In fairness mod i'm an IT tech and find this stuff quite easy, especially with Netgear routers, couldn't fault then. If you asked me to change a wheel of a car tho or something like that I'd find it incredibly difficult to do it at all so cut him some slack.

    The icon that you click in the bottom right hand corner of the screen, is that just the Windows network connection itself or is it being handled by a third party program? Also you said that you can pick up the connection itself but not wether you can reconnect to it or not.

    It may simply be that a third party program is taking over Windows' ability to manage the wireless connection and is trying to do it itself. If this is happening then none of the info to connect to the router (WEP or WPA Key etc) would be saved in the third party program. There is an easy way to get around this but I need to know which your laptop is currently using, a third party app (like Intel Pro Wireless for example) or Windows itself?


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