MarkJohnson Posted February 1, 2012 Share Posted February 1, 2012 I have lost my internet and when I go to connect wirelessly, my router doesn't show up, but my neighbors' routers show up.I decided to put in my spare USB wireless adapter and same issue. It doesn't show my router.All three of my other computers find it just find and both of my internet weather stations find it.I went looking through network settings and couldn't seem to find anything blocking my router. I found the saved internet connections page and cleared all of the entries out.Not sure where to find such an option.Any clues, comments, ideas?-=Math=-- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 1, 2012 Share Posted February 1, 2012 (edited) Is your router set up to broadcast its SSID? Mine was not when I first tried connecting my Windows 7 laptops. Even when given the SSID manually, along with the encryption type and password to use, they would not find my network. That is, not until I set the router to broadcast its SSID... then the laptops connected. After this I was able to run the router invisibly, without broadcasting its SSID. Edited February 1, 2012 by 5eraph Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkJohnson Posted February 1, 2012 Author Share Posted February 1, 2012 I took the adapter and plugged it into my wired PC and it still wasn't working.I reset the router with the reset button this time and all is well.Must have had a glitch in the router blocking the one PC.Thanks for the help-=Mark=- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 2, 2012 Share Posted February 2, 2012 Nothing fixes network problems quite as thoroughly as power-cycling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted February 2, 2012 Share Posted February 2, 2012 Nothing fixes network problems quite as thoroughly as power-cycling. Do not underestimate the effects of intimidating hardware too (though routers - generally speaking - are a bit tough) :jaclaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyrius Posted February 2, 2012 Share Posted February 2, 2012 My guess is that resetting made it broadcast in mixed mode by default, and that it previously was using a standard the adapter could not recognize. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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