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    Dell / Belkin Compatability

    Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by papajoe, Sep 13, 2007.

  1. papajoe

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    I recently inherited a Belkin N1 Wireless router. Have set it up as an access point on my LAN and it works fine when my laptop is wired directly into the router. I can't seem to get the wireless N working with my laptop - Dell Vostro 1700 w/ Dell 1505 N card. Is there a compatibilty issue? I've tried no security, WEP, WPA, WPA2, etc in various configurations, but nothing seems to work. Anybody able to shed some light?
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    papajoe, Sep 13, 2007
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    Is there some kind of MAC filtering on it?
     
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    Not to my knowledge. Wouldn't that stop the wired connectionas well though?
     
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    No. Because since when activating my Linksys router's MAC address blocking, it's default to "block" users with the IP Address.

    I effectively cut off every computer of ours off the internet. I had to connect directly to get rid of it.
     
    Waveblade, Sep 14, 2007
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    That was it. Thanks. It was set to allow, but I disabled it and now I'm up. Thanks for your help.
     
    papajoe, Sep 14, 2007
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