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Wireless connection problems, pease help!!!!

MikeyA

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Posted July 10, 2009 at 10:46AM

HI

I have a hp g6000 with vista that will not connect wirelessly to ANY router. but it will connect via ethernet and works fine. It finds wireless networks but will not establish connection via wifi. i also have another vista laptop that does connect. set up to wpa but tried wep and even turned encryption off and it will still not connnect.

the other things that i have done so far:
re formatted
updated wireless adapter driver
disabled ipv6
manually set up ip address, dns etc.
turned windows firewal off
uninstalled norton

please help guys i am at my witts end here..

thanks

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mooly

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Posted July 10, 2009 at 2:13PM

Just very quickly, are you certain your router has no passkey programmed into it.
If you "reset" the router, as in factory reset does it default to some pre supplied WEP code or whatever. Check your router documentation. Or can you via cable connection enter a passkey of your choice, then set it up wirelessly.
Take it you are clicking the start orb and selecting "connect to" in the menu and picking your router from any available.

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MikeyA

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Posted July 10, 2009 at 3:03PM

yes i currently have a vistya laptop working with the router. i have turned off encryption and still tried to connect and it finds it but will not establish connection. i entered the config on 192.169.0.1 and took it off and it recognises that it is unprotected.

i am a comptia certied pc technician so i know a fair bit..

any ideas?

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Woolwell

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Posted July 10, 2009 at 4:54PM

Soory if you have already done this but click here

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mooly

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Posted July 10, 2009 at 6:42PM

Is it worth uninstalling the wireless adapter and reinstalling. Don't quite know what that might achieve. How about changing the channel on the router... again it makes no sense, just one of "them things you gotta try".

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MikeyA

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Posted July 12, 2009 at 1:26PM

yea i tried that formatted laptop and reinstalled all current and up to date drivers off of hp website

could it just be a problem with the wireless adapter??

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mooly

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Posted July 12, 2009 at 7:12PM

Dunno ! Can you try the laptop on someone elses network.

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