Hi
Restoring to previous setting is not always a magic that solves every thing.
In general, either some thing is wrong with the Network aspects of you
daughter computer, or it is basically OK but the Wireless settings do not
match the Wireless Router.
The fact that something worked before provides some general confidence in
the hardware and in general Network arrangement but do not give any hint
about what is currently wrong.
Showing Strong Signal is better than nothing, but Not necessarily any
indication to where the signal comes from and whether your current setting
of the computer are compatible with the source of this signal.
Start with disabling temporarily any Firewall or similar security that might
block the general Network connection.
Disable temporarily the Wireless Network Security in the Router.
Read this page, (
http://www.ezlan.net/wireless ) make sure that WZC and the
Brand Wireless security are not both loaded and running.
In General, you can debug the Network Settings of a computer by following
these steps.
Step One. Check the Network parameters in the Computer's Device Manager.
Make sure that the Network Card drivers are installed correctly; I.e. there
is No IRQ conflict, and No Ghost installation.
http://www.ezlan.net/faq#ghost
Step Two. Verify Basic network setting in the OS:
http://www.ezlan.net/Installing#verify.
If the above two Steps indicates that every thing looks good but
functionally it does not work.
Step Three. Check (and repair if necessary) the Socket Layers, Winsock, and
or refresh the TCP/IP Stack.
http://www.ezlan.net/clean#refreshnet
Jack (MVP-Networking).
"Jay" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:9295C84A-1608-4167-A5C0-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Jack, Thanks for your interest in helping me. The kay point in reference
> to
> your thought about compatability is that this sam PC used to communicate
> fine
> with the same wireless router - it fails now only because I had to restore
> my
> daughter's system so it's not a compatability problem. The other facctor
> in
> trying to debug this problem is that my own wirreless pc is working fine
> right along side (physically) her computer.
> Jay
>
> "Jack (MVP-Networking)." wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> There is No search per-se. When you click on available Networks, it
>> searches for all available signals and shows them.
>>
>> Since signals can "come and go" refreshing the View (as indicated above
>> by
>> David) would "Search" again, if you see your Wireless Network and can not
>> connect to it means that your Wireless computer settings do not match the
>> "Available" Network and thus you can not connect to the source and use
>> it.
>>
>> If you are not sure whether your system is fully compatible with Windows
>> Zero Configuration. Switch is Off ( http://www.ezlan.net/wzc.html ) and
>> try the Original Wireless Utility as provided by the Wireless Brand.
>> Read
>> slowly the content to the links provided you previously by David.
>>
>> Jack (MVP-Networking).
>>
>>
>>
>> "David Hettel" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> news:%(E-Mail Removed)...
>> > On the Wireless Network Connection page, under Network Task (top left)
>> > "Refresh network list"
>> >
>> > --
>> > David Hettel
>> >
>> > Please post any reply as a follow-up message in the news group for
>> > everyone
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>> > "Jay" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> > news:46D95D2F-B742-4C3C-89C4-(E-Mail Removed)...
>> >> David Hettel advised me the following:
>> >>
>> >> 1) it's possible that you are just going to "view available wireless
>> >> networks" and expecting to find the networks listed there without
>> >> doing a
>> >> search. Have you tried searching? If you can search, and after
>> >> searching
>> >> nothing is shown that would indicate a hardware problem, or a failure
>> >> to
>> >> load the correct drivers.
>> >>
>> >> How do I search (for a SSID) as he suggested?
>> >> Jay
>> >
>>
>>
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