bizarre wireless problem

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Hi all

I'm scratching my head a lil here. I haven't seen this problem first hand yet - but here is the scenario:

3 people sharing an NTL cable modem using a wireless router, secured using MAC address access list and WPA PSK. A fourth person connects (Dell Inspiron 1501) and this stops everyone else from connecting to the router. They have tried changing the router from a Linksys WRT54g to a Netgear WGT624 but the same problem occurs. The router is set to support both B and G modes. All the computers are different makes/models.

Other than the Dell causing the router to switch into a wireless mode that the other 3 computers don't support I can't think what could be happening. Any ideas ?

cheers :)
 
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Change the encryption to WEP and see if this makes a difference. I believe it's possible for a WPA network to be DOS'd hence the WPA2 comming out - maybe the Dell is inadvertantly doing this?
 
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