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Hey all, My better half went out and bought a cheap laptop (an ACER) so that she could do some work away from the office.... With Windows Vista

Then she went out and bought a Linksys wireless router...

The laptop usually sees our wireless network (as well as a few others) and on the rare occasion the laptop will connect. But usually the laptop won't connect. (even when the signal is "excellent") It then gives an option to "troubleshoot the problem" or "connect to another network". If I recall correctly, the laptop will connect to one of the other open networks that has a really weak signal, so it drops out pretty regularly...

This makes me think that there is something in the wireless router that isn't set up correctly....

Also, a friend who has a brand new Toshiba (with Vista) laptop has been staying at our home and she has the symptoms....

We had the "network" set up with security protection, but removed that to see if it was a password type issue... This didn't help...

Do ya'll have any ideas on what to look for??

Thanks again...

Junior

Hi Junior

Try turning off the Vista firewall. You are behind a router, you shouldn't need it. See if you can get on line

Thanks for the suggestion Ice...

Here is the scoop...

The first router we bought went belly the first night we owned it. It seemed to connect ok the first day, but we woke up the next morning and it wouldn't power up. We returned it...

The second router (second brand)we bought (the one I posted about) never would connect consistantly. Sometimes it would most times it wouldn't. MBH found something that said (on the new laptop) the router wasn't sending a reply (or something to that affect...) We returned it.

The third router (and third brand) connected up just fine, and today we switched it to a secured connection and got that working just fine as well...

It's pretty sad that there was a 66% fail rate on three routers... Granted that it was three different brands, but still...

Just wanted to let ya'll know that it is now working fine and that we appreciate you assistance...

Good on ya

Junior