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    Can anyone help?

    Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by ScaryLarry, Sep 7, 2007.

  1. ScaryLarry

    ScaryLarry Notebook Guru

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    Okay, here's the story.
    About 2 months ago I bought a Linksys WRT54GTS router for the pc in the living room and a card for the pc in the kitchen. The kitchen pc broke before I put the card in but already had the router already set up so I left it.

    Last nite I bought my first laptop, took it upstairs and it hooked up to internet right away. I was just looking at the laptop network connections and it shows 5 or 6 but the one I'm hooked up to isnt mine.

    At first I couldnt see mine then tried to play with some router settings and now I think I see it. the name is linksys - SES - xxxxx which matches mine and when I tell the laptop to use mine it wont connect. I also see another one with a different number which tells me the other must be mine although I dont see the name I gave it e.g. Larry_net.

    Anyway, it has a lock symbol next to it and my guess is I'm just missing a setting or two. Can someone please give me a few things I can try so I can use my own...Please.

    Thanks.
     
    ScaryLarry, Sep 7, 2007
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  2. Crimsonman

    Crimsonman Ex NBR member :cry:

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    yeah, get rid of the router, linksys sucks

    the lock symbol means you have a password

    go on linksys.com/check and have it install it for you
     
    Crimsonman, Sep 7, 2007
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  3. ScaryLarry

    ScaryLarry Notebook Guru

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    Too late to take it back.
     
    ScaryLarry, Sep 7, 2007
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  4. grateful

    grateful Notebook Evangelist

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    linksys is fine, they are the toyota of home routers.....you want expensive and hard to break go trash a Cisco

    but use the linksys.com/check routine as the person stated above
     
    grateful, Sep 7, 2007
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    ScaryLarry Notebook Guru

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    Got it...Security settings did not match.
     
    ScaryLarry, Sep 7, 2007
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  6. grateful

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    awsem, congrats on finally becoming FREE
     
    grateful, Sep 7, 2007
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