Wireless problems

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My girlfriends laptop no longer detects our wireless network, it detects others in surrounding houses but not ours. Ive looked in the router and as far as i can see everyting looks ok so im a bit puzzled. Obviously its a problem with our network if she can detect others but for life of me i cant figure it out. Is there any kind of test i can do to test my network ?
 
Ive just connected fine using our WII so i guess that means the wireless network is working fine - so why will the laptop not detect the network ?
 
Try changing the name of the network, the pasword and the type of security...has done the trick for me many a time after its stopped for no reason...still not sure why though.
 
Thanks for the help - rebooting the routr did the trick, changed the network name for good measure too and now all works fine.
 
check that the laptop can get all the channels the router might use

some laptops are set to use channels 1to11 ie us spec, if the router uses EU channels 1 to 13 it may sometimes try to use a channel (12 or 13) the laptop cant see.

Cant remeber exactly wher the settigns for channels are probably device manager or the cards wifi utility
 
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