Wirless Connection Problems

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Hi

Can anyone help?

I have a toshiba laptop and im trying to connect to me wireless seimans router. Everytime i search for the router on the laptop it finds the router and when i try to connect. it tries to connect then says please try again your wireless connection may have gone outside range. I know the router is fine, coz ive got my pc connected to the router and my phone. they are both connected fine. just cant get the laptop conneted.

i dont understand it. anyone know what i can do?

thanks in advance.

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  Frank said:
Have you checked for updated drivers for your laptop's wireless card? What OS are you running? What kind of Wireless NIC is it?

yeah ive got the latest drivers, im running xp and its a siemans orange router.

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yas1320

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  Frank said:
XP with SP2? When I was talking about the Wireless NIC I was talking about your laptop wireless card. What version is the drivers?

OK, i think it something to do with Encryption & Authentication, as if i disable it then i can connect, with my laptop too. As soon as i use WPA2-PSK/WPA-PSK or WPA2-PAK(AES), then the laptop comes up with the same error message.

any one know what i can do?

I dont what to disable the security.

by the way the error message is:

windows is unable to connect to the selected network. the network may no longer be in range. please refresh the list of available networks, and try to connect again

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  yas1320 said:
also, now when i try to access the config pages for the router it gives me:

The login user number is overtop!!

what does this mean?

i can no longer access the pages.

The router probably still thinks your logged in. Power cycle it.

Make sure the card actually supports those wireless encryption standards, if it's an old laptop with the built in wireless, it may not.

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  OPaul said:
The router probably still thinks your logged in. Power cycle it.

Make sure the card actually supports those wireless encryption standards, if it's an old laptop with the built in wireless, it may not.

thanks for that. I have looked into it and i think you may be right it doesnt support the WPA encriptions, only supports WEP.

Should i then get a wireless adapter that supports these encriptions. If so, which is the cheapest and best one i can get?

Thanks for your help.

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One thing you hardly ever hear anyone mention, is turning on MAC filtering instead of using WEP/WPA. No matter how complex your security, if someone REALLY wanted to connect to your router you wouldn't be able to stop them.

If you are having problems with compatibility for security, try switching to MAC filtering to protect the wireless access.

Plus, you won't have to buy new hardware for your laptop.

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  Aldur82 said:
One thing you hardly ever hear anyone mention, is turning on MAC filtering instead of using WEP/WPA. No matter how complex your security, if someone REALLY wanted to connect to your router you wouldn't be able to stop them.

If you are having problems with compatibility for security, try switching to MAC filtering to protect the wireless access.

Plus, you won't have to buy new hardware for your laptop.

There is a reason no one suggests turning on MAC filtering. I would get an adapter, any newer one will work, that supports WPA. A new internal wireless card that supports WPA will run $20-$30.

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And why is that?

Security Speaking...Because breaking MAC filtering is trivial. Watch some traffic, pickup the MAC address that is included on every frame. Spoof that MAC address and your past it.

So for none of that extra security, you get all of that extra headache trying to manage it.

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