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Problems with wireless router?
My laptop gets a strong signal strength to the wireless router but I can't browse the net through it. Someone else can connect from their laptop when standing in the same place, so it looks like it isn't the router.
However, I can connect to the internet through another network from my computer, even though the signal strength is significantly weaker.
What's going on?
The wireless is unprotected. I've been able to connect to it before. I connected to another (protected) wireless router today, but that is the only thing that is different. Why would I be able to connect to one open network and not another?
Whoops. I usually connect with the one that isn't working (bali). My computer automatically tries to connect with it. I have "full bars" for the signal strength, but it will not let me connect to the internet (via my browser, iTunes, Skype, or help). The one that I am using now is a different network (linksys) that happens to be in the neighborhood. I have one bar and can connect.
1 Answer
- miha49Lv 41 decade agoFavorite Answer
Is the wireless router protected? If the other person has that wireless defined and the access key, then they will be able to connect and you won't.
Another issue might be the way the connections are managed on the two computers. Some are managed via Windows, and some have their own managers from the computer manufacturer. They may select the network connections differently. For example, if the other user has previously connected to that network and told his connection manager to remember the settings, then it may give priority to that network over stronger signals because it recognizes it from a previous session. That may well be why yours has a preference for the weaker signal over the stronger one. Perhaps you previously used the weaker wireless network and your connection manager prefers it.
Without more specific details, that is about all I can offer at this point.
