Connecting to a secured wireless network vista

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Was this information helpful? Yes No. Thank you! Any more feedback? The more you tell us the more we can help. Had the same problems? What to do? Been through all of the above procedure, however upon reaching connection option, the "manually connect to a wireless network" is not included. Its see the router as wep protocol, then rejects the connection as failure in authentication.

What is this? Before I call tech support, I thought I'd see if anyone was still active on this thread. The home wifi network did not originally set itself up out of the box and tech support took hours, between Linksys and the subsequent tech support they sent me to. I tried a fix for our printer going offline and then royally screwed up my settings while trying to recover my wifi connection — without creating a restore point beforehand.

One computer is still connected to wifi without problems, though I'm not certain about printing. My computer can only connect to the internet via ethernet and I get printing error messages even if I plug the printer USB though the printer may have another problem. Atheros that appear on my screen — how to determine which I'm to use if I'm following troubleshooting procedures? Network map — my McAfee security system is once again showing our home network and identifying all as friends 3.

I have no internet without the ethernet cable 4. I've powered off the router and modem multiple times. What will happen when I use a paperclip to reset the router? Will I lose IP addresses, etc? Can the wireless connection info in Control Panel be restored to a default state? Bert : thank you Bert! You just saved Christmas, as resetting it from WEP to WPA Personal allowed my so to connect his new toshiba netbook to my apple airport extreme wireless.

No PCs have been able to connect until now, but the macs and ipods had no problem. Now both can. Hi i have a problem with my Lenovo laptop which is running Xp. Every time i try to connect to my cousins wirless network which is unsecured and has a linksys modem not sure which type it connects perfectly but when i open up the mozilla firefox it says " server not found".

My cousins computer connects to the internet fine. I think the reason why my laptop wont connect because the data encryption setting is disabled but when i click on the authentication tab in properties of this network it says "IEEE I am shocked to see how many folks have had trouble getting their vista laptops to connect with their secured home wireless networks. That is my problem. For a year we had an unsecured wireless network — my pc is running XP, my laptop is running XP, my Tivo network adapter can get on and my husband's vista laptop could.

Then I secured the network. All devices except my husband's vista laptop can get on the network. Changed the ssid and for one night the vista laptop could make a new connection to the network. But next night it couldn't. Have wpa-2 encryption, the linksys router has an option for both tkip and aes, I've tried tkip or aes on the vista laptop — neither works. The vista laptop says it's connected — the signal is strong, but limited access.

This vista laptop can connect with any neighbor's unsecured networks — just not our secure one — even with all settings and passphrase matching and being entered appropriately. I've spent hours this week trying. I poured through this thread and tried a few of the ideas — to no avail. I did unselect ITP6 — but that didn't make a difference.

In addition, I have enabled our Mac Address Filtering and have our two wireless computers on there as the only allowed computers. But from what I am reading elsewhere, anyone can access my wireless network? I know this is not the best security but I thought we had at least something. When I search all available wireless networks in my neighborhood, it does say that our network is a Security-Enabled Network. Can someone let me know if we are completely exposed right now for anyone to get onto our network?

John : Did you hear of a solution? I have the same issue. Thanks Joanne. To fix a problem of not getting connected by wireless above 2 options are suggested everywhere and somehow I don't see both the options in my laptop. I used vista. My computer does detects networks but I can't connect to it. A message appear it does take longer than usually. I found it quite harder to set up rather than xp. Until today it still unable to connect. Using a desktop alternatively.

I have a dell xps laptop with windows vista home premium 32 bit sp1. John : I have the same problem John, Would appreciate if you got a solution. I just installed a lynksis Valet router. I have checked the "automatically connect.. I have talked to lynkis tewch couple times, they remotely controlled my lkaptop to try to fix but t no avail..

Oh yes, Once i am connected i stay connected just fine but it wont auto-connect…tks! I had the same thing on my laptop with Vista home — I could not see or connect to my wirless router. I wish the Vista-help would have been more helpfull…. When i try to connect to wireless network with the Router, it throwing the error message ha " Unable to Connect to the Networks".

I have a Netgear wireless router. I have four computers hooked up to the router via ethernet wire 2 XP destops and two Vista laptops. When using the wired connection, the Vista laptop can see and access all computers on the network, however, when I switch the laptop to wireless, it only sees the other Vista laptop.

The laptop can access the internet while wired or wireless. I am using WEP security. Can anyone tell me what to do to get the laptop to see the entire network wirelessly?

It's an acer laptop using windows vista…. I still can't connect to my wireless router, my dad, my sister even my ps3 that is far away from the router can go online! I am in serious need of help with my internet connection. Initially I couldn't connect at all- though I had a strong signal strength, typing in the network password was NOT gaining me access to the internet. All the time, signal strength for my network is very strong and I am able to get on the internet.

The problem is that the access fades in and out inexplicably, all the time. It will work perfectly for a few minutes and then I will get the yellow exclamation mark and the "Limited access" sign, and then it will reconnect and work perfectly again for a few minutes.

Literally this happens all the time. It's very frustrating. I don't understand: if I authenticated successfully, why is it fading in and out?

I replaced the mb on a Toshiba ms and now I can't see the wireless card. I recovered the os to factory condition and have the latest driver but I still can't see the card. The card is a Realtek e. Hi, I have vista and I"m trying to add wap2 security to my wireless network. I go to my router's setup page and add a password, which then appears to be saved for all of the wireless networks that are set up on my computer that's what it looks like in "Manage Wireless Networks".

Anyway, my problem is that then when I try to connect, it now asks me for username and password. But I don't know my username. There is nowhere on the router's set-up page where I can specify a username. Is it the name of the wireless network?

That's not working. Any ideas on how to find out what my username is? Did you mean ad hoc PC-PC network? Since Windows Vista, 7 it is not able to connect automatically to ad hoc network. There is a couple of articles about how to connect to ad hoc network in Vista, Windows 7. So I recommend you some specialized tool. Maxidix Wifi Suite, for examle can do it my choice , and everything works as I would like it to. Wish I help you. This problem had me stumped today for a few hours.

After reading this thread and trying a few solutions which didn't pan out, I finally got it fixed. Make sure to keep a note of any keys that you might be using otherwise you will have to regenerate the key and change all your other network devices.

Be aware that your current connection to it will be severed — and if that computer usually connects using WPA2 information, Vista will throw up 'settings don't match' errors. This is okay if you need to use it in the mean time, you can delete the stored security settings and change it to an Open non-encrypted network.

Your network should show up as Open. Check that your network is not present, and if it is, delete it this is just clearing any settings which Vista might have saved.

Click Apply. Your connection will once again be severed. Your network should appear, if you hover over you should now see WPA2 or your chosen security type. Double click and hopefully it will now ask you for the security key! I believe this problem is something inherent in Vista, it incorrectly stores the security type of the network and won't refresh that data, and doesn't attempt to ask the network what security it is using when you try to connect.

I need help bad!! I changed from Bellsouth internet for my laptop and my laptop would secure and was not a problem. I switched to charter communications internet and since then I purchased laptops for my children.

My childrens laptops are Dell and they use Windows 7, they connect fine secure, but my windows Vista Acer laptop will not connect secure. I live in an apartment and have grown tired of everybody being on my internet and I can barely use it myself due to an influx of people. I called charter and they went through the motions again of trying to secure the internet on my laptop. What is wrong? Does Bellsouth have a hold on my laptop or what?

I am using Netgear from Charter and it accepts my password but it keeps saying the connection has timed out or error due to user. I just don't know what to do. If anyone can help I would be grateful.

Everybody else here can see and access my router. But Vista says "cannot find any wireless networks" I don't have the "Manually connect to a wireless Network" option shown above". Vista used to give the option for a wireless connect. But now the only options are Broadband and Dial Up.

What has to be changed to make the wireless option available? Had to reinstall the factory VISTA operating system and now need to get back on a wireless network at home. Any suggestions? Problem: Red Cross in Wireless Lan overview and not able to connect worked before nothing changed. Hi, I have a toshiba laptop running vista. I can connect to the wireless connection, however it is local only and will not allow me on the internet. All other laptops are fine apart from two toshiba laptops. Anybody aware of a problem with toshiba that is preventing me from a full connection.

I was in a different house last year and was able to connect to a different wireless connection no problem. I have tried various things from support websites, such as uninstalling and reinstalling drivers but nothing seems to work. Any help would be greatly appreciated as i have spent hours trying to fix this problem.

John : Hey John… have the same problem… did you ever find a solution?? I have a unique problem. But the problem is that the XP cannot access the net.

Please HELP by letting me know what are the settings i should have. I have done all the usual suggestions. Thanks in advance Roy. My computer is an hp pavillion dv I have read over all of the post and figured out a few things. Windows Vista for many ppl here will connect to the secured wireless router but it won't be able to access the internet. I have had the same problem here. There are three computers at my house, two are windows 7, and the other one is windows vista.

I have tried many things, and all I have left to do that ican think of is to change the security type of the router. My windows vista has been able to connect to unsecured networks, but as it seems for everyone else and mine secured networks don't provide internet for it. So i would advise to change the internet security type to one compatible to windows vista. If there is anything else please! I have the same problems with vista because of the apartment problems with the neighbor house plus steal your passwood too.

I hope you find a better computer as well Thank-You Jeremy Pickett. I seem to have similar problems with other people, I have a three year old computer emachine it works well. I tried to connect to internet using an internet adapter USB type. The adapter works fine and the signal from the modem wifi has an excellent signal, the computer says that windows is not set to automatically connect to myquest… The computer recognizes the ssid, ecription , and service key. The internet service tells me that the windows wont talk to internet, Help!

All i did was go to my routers online settings, it turned out that my computer would only connect to the internet when the router didn't have any specific security settings unsecured. But i didn't want anyone to be able to access my network so i set it so that their would be no security for the network, but you would still have to type in the network name.

I would believe since i am starting fresh is that there should be no setting on the computer. This was the problem. When the client computer detects that the network is in range, Wireless Auto Configuration tries to connect to the network regardless of whether it is configured as a broadcast network or as a non-broadcast network.

By sending probe requests only for automatically connected non-broadcast networks, a Windows Vista wireless client computer reduces the situations in which it discloses its wireless network configuration.

You can also configure a non-broadcast wireless network to be manually connected. You can then control exactly when to send probe requests. A manually connected non-broadcast wireless network always appears in the list of available networks. Therefore, you can connect to the network as required. You can use the Connect to a Network wizard to connect to non-broadcast networks in Windows Vista. When a Windows Vista wireless client computer receives a beacon frame that includes a null SSID, Windows Vista adds the wireless network to the list of available networks.

Then, Windows Vista names the wireless network "Unnamed Network. Need more help? Expand your skills. Get new features first. Was this information helpful? Yes No. Thank you!

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