Okay, I've got a laptop and recently bought a wireless router. I've connected that router to my PC and configured it, but my laptop isn't picking up the signal. The manual tells me to configure the laptop to the device, but I can't w/o being online?
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4 steps to set up your home wireless network http://www.microsoft.com/athome/moredone/wirelesssetup.mspx
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I'm going to assume that both your computer and the "wireless" router can be physically connected (temporarily) with a cable. Then you are allowed to configure your computer/router to "talk" to each other wirelessly. Your router most likely came with the correct cord/plug do to this with.
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I had the same problem with D-Link, I had to contact the D-Link company which assisted me in accessing their site while being offline. It was charge free (I called toll free number)
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Call the router company.
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as long as you have a wireless ready laptop, it should "see" it in your network applet in the control panel, although you will need to select it, and enter any applicable password or encryption keys to connect.
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I am guessing that the router is improperly configured. When I first got my netbook, I had a similar problem as the wireless router that was already here was configured to lock out *any* connection aside from the computers that my roommate *explicitly* allowed to connect. A quick view of the logs and a little double-checking revealed that my AA1 tried to connect and he reconfigured the router to "whitelist" any connection request from the unique MAC address of my AA1. After that, all was well. At the time, we had no ''net connection. I was merely trying to hook into the LAN so I could access my desktop system's drives and allow all of our PCs to share a printer. Once we got our new DSL connection up, there was no additional configuration required, at least not from my AA1.
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