Solve : Laptop stopped detecting wireless router.?

1.	Solve : Laptop stopped detecting wireless router.?
Answer» My Dell Inspiron was connecting fine to my router and out of the BLUE, my wireless network went dead. My desktop which is hardwired to the router works fine. But the laptop can't even detect the router. Laptop is running Windows XP Home Edition. The only thing I haven't done is do a COMPLETE reset of my router. I have a D-Link router WBR-1310 and all this has given me is trouble since I got it a year ago. One thing I did notice is that another D-Link router popped up in my area and it's open. Could there be interference? I know my laptop adapter is working fine because I test it with this open line. Any other suggestions before resetting and starting from scratch? your router might not be broadcasting a signal... could you connect to the router from your hardwired PC (usually at the IP 192.168.1.254) and see what the settings are? FBHere is the network and wireless settings. Don't know if they belong to my router since it didn't ask me to log on. As I am looking through these settings, I am realizing these settings belong to the other router somebody just SET up in my neihborhood. At least the SSID name and Security mode belong to the other router and my computer is picking up these router when I boot it up. Could these be possible that my settings are being overwritten and shutting signal to my router? LaloCan you open MS Paint on your computer, crop that image you posted, and use the cropped image to replace the one you posted in the forum? All the useless white space to to the right side of it is forcing a lot of viewers to horizontally scroll to read the posts. As far as i'm aware (i'm not expert on this subject) but what your suggesting is basically impossible. Otherwise every house on a street would have to have a different router. Anyways are those pictures from your router? if not could you check (as in check that it isn't checked) the option highlighted in the attached photo. FB [recovering disk space -- attachment deleted by admin]Detecting wireless signals of neighbors is not at all uncommon. Right now, my notebook PC detects four other networks besides mine. One of them has a strong signal and is unsecured. If I choose, I can connect to the Internet via their wireless router. Quote from: eulalio on August 26, 2008, 11:00:04 AM The only thing I haven't done is do a complete reset of my router. What have you done? Do you know for sure that you have, indeed, during the time you've owned that router, connected wirelessly to the Internet with it? The only thing I've done is disconnect all wires and power off. I've yet to reset the router and start from scratch. Soybean, Yes, I've been connecting to this router ever since I've got it because it's always connect it to my SSID. It may be coincidential, but I hadn't had any problems up until this new open line router showed up. BTW, I did do the cropping and still gave me extra white space. I also tried using the posting for forums and now it's too small for viewing. What gives. Fireballs, I've tend to suspect they're not my router settings since it's got a different SSID than what I named my router. I need to figure out how to GO the homepage and login as with my username and password to view my settings. D-Link is not very user friendly in logging into my settings.You didn't crop your image, you just downsized the whole thing. The purpose of cropping is to cut away the unwanted part so that you end up with: When you're online with your computer, you see an icon of two monitors in the LOWER right corner of your screen. Right? If you double click on that, what pops up?

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My Dell Inspiron was connecting fine to my router and out of the BLUE, my wireless network went dead. My desktop which is hardwired to the router works fine. But the laptop can't even detect the router. Laptop is running Windows XP Home Edition. The only thing I haven't done is do a COMPLETE reset of my router. I have a D-Link router WBR-1310 and all this has given me is trouble since I got it a year ago. One thing I did notice is that another D-Link router popped up in my area and it's open. Could there be interference? I know my laptop adapter is working fine because I test it with this open line. Any other suggestions before resetting and starting from scratch?
your router might not be broadcasting a signal... could you connect to the router from your hardwired PC (usually at the IP 192.168.1.254) and see what the settings are?

FBHere is the network and wireless settings. Don't know if they belong to my router since it didn't ask me to log on.

As I am looking through these settings, I am realizing these settings belong to the other router somebody just SET up in my neihborhood. At least the SSID name and Security mode belong to the other router and my computer is picking up these router when I boot it up. Could these be possible that my settings are being overwritten and shutting signal to my router?

LaloCan you open MS Paint on your computer, crop that image you posted, and use the cropped image to replace the one you posted in the forum? All the useless white space to to the right side of it is forcing a lot of viewers to horizontally scroll to read the posts. As far as i'm aware (i'm not expert on this subject) but what your suggesting is basically impossible. Otherwise every house on a street would have to have a different router. Anyways are those pictures from your router? if not could you check (as in check that it isn't checked) the option highlighted in the attached photo.

FB

[recovering disk space -- attachment deleted by admin]Detecting wireless signals of neighbors is not at all uncommon. Right now, my notebook PC detects four other networks besides mine. One of them has a strong signal and is unsecured. If I choose, I can connect to the Internet via their wireless router.

Quote from: eulalio on August 26, 2008, 11:00:04 AM

The only thing I haven't done is do a complete reset of my router.

What have you done? Do you know for sure that you have, indeed, during the time you've owned that router, connected wirelessly to the Internet with it?

The only thing I've done is disconnect all wires and power off. I've yet to reset the router and start from scratch.

Soybean,
Yes, I've been connecting to this router ever since I've got it because it's always connect it to my SSID. It may be coincidential, but I hadn't had any problems up until this new open line router showed up. BTW, I did do the cropping and still gave me extra white space. I also tried using the posting for forums and now it's too small for viewing. What gives.

Fireballs,
I've tend to suspect they're not my router settings since it's got a different SSID than what I named my router. I need to figure out how to GO the homepage and login as with my username and password to view my settings. D-Link is not very user friendly in logging into my settings.You didn't crop your image, you just downsized the whole thing. The purpose of cropping is to cut away the unwanted part so that you end up with:

When you're online with your computer, you see an icon of two monitors in the LOWER right corner of your screen. Right? If you double click on that, what pops up?

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