Wireless problems..help!

Chr15_2

Hi, my parents have an Asus laptop with an Elec TM router. Both are just over a year old but my parents have told me recently that they can only connect if they're connected via cable (been like it whilst in warranty don't you just love 'em!)

I take my laptop over and all works fine wirelessly for me. I've tried having a look but have to admit I'm out of my depth a bit with this. All we get is a message saying 'little or no connectivity' and appears to be connected then drops. I've deleted all the wireless profiles in the router software and tried to start from scratch, searching for networks which it finds the router but just won't connect. I've even disabled the security to make things easier initially but it still keeps asking for WEP key.

Has anyone got any guidance or advice? Not to be cheeky but if anyone has any step by step guides I'd be grateful.thanks

Browntoa

have you tried letting Windows manage the Wireless connection instead of the Asus software ??

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/columns/cableguy/cg1102.mspx

I use this as the crap Belkin one drops connection all the time

Chr15_2

I did manage to bypass the software and it did connect but ever since then havent been able to get it to connect. Do you think it may be the card in the laptop?

Browntoa

if you can get your hands on a wireless USB adapter and try, might also be worth checking that you are using the latest wirless drivers from the ASUS web site

http://support.asus.com/download/download.aspx?SLanguage=en-us

Chr15_2

OK thanks will go over and give that a go.thankyou

CHR15

Blimey!!! I thought it was me made that post! Thought I was going mad for a minute.

Usernames case sensitive then?!

Browntoa

yes...got me for a second until i saw the low post count

Chr15_2

Got me too there!

superscaper

Browntoa wrote: »

yes...got me for a second until i saw the low post count

Me too, very confusing. Didn't realise you could have unique usernames based on case sensitivity.

Superscaper_2

superscaper wrote: »

Didn't realise you could have unique usernames based on case sensitivity.

Me neither

:rotfl:

CHR15

Took me a while to figure that one Super, super errrrr whoever !!:rotfl: :T :rotfl: