Hi Reggie, First of all, regarding security, you should be able to enable wep on your router and then put the same key into the braillenote. If your router supports 4 wep keys as it probably does, be sure to use the first one for the braillenote as that's the one it recognizes.
The way you describe your problem, it really does sound like you are getting interference from something around your house. It is odd that you can connect using the same card on the laptop but not on the bn. If you are able to connect at all and even download mail at times, it really does sound like the connection is a good one. I wish I had more to suggest. But, if you are concerned about security, I'd try turning on wep. You can use either 64 or 128 bit encryption requiring a 10 or 26 character key respectively. This won't hurt your connectivity, but it probably won't help it either. I'm not that familiar, but if your husband is comfortable making settings in the router, it might be worth trying to see if you can get the router to use a different radio frequency. I believe this may be possible with some routers but not certain. If so, that might be one way of getting around any interference problem. I hope this is of some help. Come out to central California. It was 92 degrees F here today. Don
