Mystery date
February 9, 2008 by cynthia
Quick one. Remember the issues I had getting my new Linksys wireless router to work?
Briefly, the wired part of the router worked fine. Wireless? Forget it. Freddie Mac, my MacBook Pro, can generally find ANY wireless connection and try to hook up, but as far as the new router was concerned, she was blind, deaf and dumb. I wired her (and the rest of my primarily Windows stable) to the router but prepared to take the bloody thing back.
It must have caught wind of my plans, because I came home last night, plugged Freddie back in and up popped a “You have a new wireless device” on my main Windows machine. Checked the router and, sure enough, it was picking up both Freddie’s wire and her wireless signal, and Freddie was picking up a strong and beautiful wireless signal. I unplugged the Ethernet and stayed connected.
One by one it found the wireless desktops, the print server, etc… and hooked them up. I didn’t do a bloody thing. Now someone tell me why it took this long for the router to wake up to wireless…
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You are my Geek Goddess!
You are the Glass Gal of Connectivity!
Your mojo extends from Oregon to Minnesota. Whatever radiation you are radiating, DON’T STOP.
Enterprise, Voyager, and iBook-2050 (the Dot’s school notebook) haven’t been able to connect to the wireless for weeks. I read your note and decided to give it One More Try. The router was set to WEP so I toggled it to WAP and gave it a shot. No Go. I put it BACK to WEP and generated a new access key. I then entered the HEX code into Enterprise and…IT CONNECTED! Move over to Voyager…IT CONNECTED! Went inside and tried the iBook…IT CONNECTED!
One thing I am wondering if is if I’m getting channel interference. My Toshiba’s cool wireless detector shows 10 or so possible connections. We may need to hold a neighborhood meeting to allocate channels so that nearby houses use far-away channels. Getting that arranged, though, will probably be like herding cats.
GcB
PS Glass folks can now tune back in to your regularly scheduled program.
Hmmmmm. Could be. Of course, I can’t see the hard drive attached to the router again… –sigh–
Does it work with security OFF? Try it for a few minutes….that was my clue that it was something in the routers security / encryption system.
Nope. Doesn’t work with WEP, WPA, WAP, WOOPS or WOW. Or with no Ws at all…
HOWEVER…I do seem to recall changing frequency on my Leapfrog last week…still doesn’t explain why the thing took a couple extra days to find the wireless devices, but hey…
Couple IT buddies I pal around with (we’re all playing with our XO laptops–you should SEE the hoops you can make these things jump through) told me the particular router I have is one of the “new” models from Linksys and not quite as reliable as in former days. Well, actually, they snickered: “You bought THAT one? Have we taught you NOTHING?”
I kinda feel like the head-whopping people in those V8 commercials, only with circuit boards. –sigh–
Oh yeh, I love that “You bought THAT one? Have we taught you NOTHING?” line. Fred, aka PatRat, uses things like that on me. You raise a kid from a snot nose brat, give him an IBM-PC keyboard as a pull toy, send him off to the U and what does he become? A uber-geek that Lets You Know exactly Where You Stand with technology.
At least he’s not like his kid brother who keeps threatening to put me in a nursing home with Big Cockroaches if I don’t shape up.
The wireless still seems to be OK. The Dot was using it last night.