Laptops suddenly cant see/connect to our home wireless network but can see nieghbours

Lady_K

I already have passphase I save it on a usb, its saying excellent signal so something is there but red cross is still at side and because it says wpa psk 802 11g at the side of it rather than wpa2 like it used to do I must have something set wrong now

debitcardmayhem

Lady_K wrote: »

I already have passphase I save it on a usb, its saying excellent signal so something is there but red cross is still at side and because it says wpa psk 802 11g at the side of it rather than wpa2 like it used to do I must have something set wrong now

Try connecting from the Lappy using the passphrase the router says it is using

Lady_K

I had already tried connecting with the laptop thats the one that had the red x but I changed some things in properties on the laptop next to our network. It wasnt set at wpa2 personal on the laptop it was just set at wpa personal so swapped that and changed the tkip+aes to just aes and its working now

Do you think its necessary to keep it on aes or put it back to tkip+aes as I think it was just the wpa2 personal missetting that was stopping it from working?

debitcardmayhem

I think the router has only AES for WPA2-Personal so it will be more sense to leave the laptops like that too. TKIP was (I think) for WPA-Personal (note no 2). The router has probably got a WPA2-Mixed mode which is for TKIP+AES , try the old XP lappy now too, it may have only WPA-Personal available, but if it can use WPA2 then all well and good.

Lady_K

Both laptops are working fine now Thanks very much for your help, saves me buying a new router for a while yet

debitcardmayhem

No Probs , Glad you're sorted . K:beer: