My parents and brother have a belkin wireless router, and belkin usb dongles. These have never worked nicely with my brothers computer, but the parents insist on using them. Thankfully, I built my PC, and my PCI card works fine.
Anyhow, he managed to break his somehow, and they bought him a new one, and it doesn't seem to work. Sometimes it picks up the wireless network with very high signal strength, but most of the time it can't find any, and it can never connect.
Technically the wireless is unsecured, there isn't any WAP/WEP passwords, instead they opted for mac filtering, which seems to work fine. Anyhow, I stuck the mac for the new dongle into the router, but its still not connecting. Tried using me mums dongle and it worked fine, saw the network and connected, so the old one was duff, and the new one wasn't working.
Hpwever, the new one was a slightly newer revision. So, I removed the dongle, uninstalled all the software and drivers, and started again. Installed from the CD, stuck the dongle in, installed the drivers, and it appeared in the system tray. It doesn't see the router for long enough to connect. Whatsmore, plugging in my mum's dongle now doesn't work either.
Help!
Anyhow, he managed to break his somehow, and they bought him a new one, and it doesn't seem to work. Sometimes it picks up the wireless network with very high signal strength, but most of the time it can't find any, and it can never connect.
Technically the wireless is unsecured, there isn't any WAP/WEP passwords, instead they opted for mac filtering, which seems to work fine. Anyhow, I stuck the mac for the new dongle into the router, but its still not connecting. Tried using me mums dongle and it worked fine, saw the network and connected, so the old one was duff, and the new one wasn't working.
Hpwever, the new one was a slightly newer revision. So, I removed the dongle, uninstalled all the software and drivers, and started again. Installed from the CD, stuck the dongle in, installed the drivers, and it appeared in the system tray. It doesn't see the router for long enough to connect. Whatsmore, plugging in my mum's dongle now doesn't work either.
Help!