I've had a combination router/WAP for quite a while now, and it's worked
extremely well. Until the day before yesterday.
While I was online with my laptop (XP Home), I lost the internet connection.
Since then the laptop connects to the router/WAP but that device refuses to
connect it to my tiny LAN or the Internet. Bringing up Microsoft's broadband
networking utility (the router/WAP and the laptop's wireless card are both
Microsoft products, bought during the period when MS was selling such
things) shows "invalid networking keyword" or some such.
I've gone through all the settings, both on the laptop and on the
router/WAP. It is using WEP, and both laptop and router/WAP have the same
WEP key. It's filtering on MAC address, and the MAC address of the laptop's
card is correctly entered in the router/WAP.
There are two other wireless nets that the laptop shows, but it is
connecting to mine. I'm don't want to drop WEP or MAC filtering, but I'm
thinking that's the next step to get my connection back.
Does anybody have a guess as to what's going on here and what I can do about
it?
Thanks.
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Tim Slattery
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