Comments on: Windows Vista Tip: How To Setup And Connect To A Wireless Network

By: SeriouslyCheckOutLinux

SeriouslyCheckOutLinux — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 07:26:36 +0000

All I have to say is..THIS HELPED!! Thank you!

By: Sudhir

Sudhir — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 07:37:53 +0000

In "Connect to Network" I dont see the option "Manually Connect to a wireless network".

In "Network and Sharing Center" I dont see the option "Manage Wireless Networks".

To fix a problem of not getting connected by wireless above 2 options are suggested everywhere and somehow I don't see both the options in my laptop.

By: Joanne Placido

Joanne Placido — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 01:14:48 +0000

@John: Did you hear of a solution? I have the same issue. Thanks Joanne.

By: Tom

Tom — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 23:56:50 +0000

ok, well I thought I had some form of security on my HP running Vista, but now Im not sure. On my "Network Properties" screen, it shows my Security Type as No Authentication (Open). Under Encryption Type is does say WEP. In addition, I have enabled our Mac Address Filtering and have our two wireless computers on there as the only allowed computers. But from what I am reading elsewhere, anyone can access my wireless network? I know this is not the best security but I thought we had at least something. When I search all available wireless networks in my neighborhood, it does say that our network is a Security-Enabled Network. Our security type is shown as WEP, and the Radio Type is 802.11n (no idea what this is). Can someone let me know if we are completely exposed right now for anyone to get onto our network?

By: Lynn

Lynn — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 03:45:48 +0000

I am shocked to see how many folks have had trouble getting their vista laptops to connect with their secured home wireless networks. That is my problem. For a year we had an unsecured wireless network – my pc is running XP, my laptop is running XP, my Tivo network adapter can get on and my husband's vista laptop could. Then I secured the network. All devices except my husband's vista laptop can get on the network. Changed the ssid and for one night the vista laptop could make a new connection to the network. But next night it couldn't.

Have wpa-2 encryption, the linksys router has an option for both tkip and aes, I've tried tkip or aes on the vista laptop – neither works. The vista laptop says it's connected – the signal is strong, but limited access. This vista laptop can connect with any neighbor's unsecured networks – just not our secure one – even with all settings and passphrase matching and being entered appropriately. I've spent hours this week trying. I poured through this thread and tried a few of the ideas – to no avail. I did unselect ITP6 – but that didn't make a difference.

Any ideas?

By: merly

merly — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 16:51:13 +0000

I tired everything n i still cant connect…

By: Justin

Justin — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 04:39:58 +0000

Hi i have a problem with my Lenovo laptop which is running Xp. Every time i try to connect to my cousins wirless network which is unsecured and has a linksys modem (not sure which type) it connects perfectly but when i open up the mozilla firefox it says " server not found". My cousins computer connects to the internet fine.

I think the reason why my laptop wont connect because the data encryption setting is disabled but when i click on the authentication tab in properties of this network it says "IEEE 802. 1x authentication can not operate on peer to peer (ad hoc) networks or on networks for which data encryption is disabled.

I don't know how to fix this someone plz help!

By: Diana

Diana — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 17:30:58 +0000

@Bert: thank you Bert! You just saved Christmas, as resetting it from WEP to WPA Personal allowed my so to connect his new toshiba netbook to my apple airport extreme wireless. No PCs have been able to connect until now, but the macs and ipods had no problem. Now both can.

By: Meerka

Meerka — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 09:46:24 +0000

Before I call tech support, I thought I'd see if anyone was still active on this thread. The home wifi network did not originally set itself up out of the box and tech support took hours, between Linksys and the subsequent tech support they sent me to.

I _had_ a wifi network running two Vista laptop Compaqs, an HP wireless network printer and a Linksys WFT160 V. 3 router through a Westell Verizon DSL model F90.

I tried a fix for our printer going offline and then royally screwed up my settings while trying to recover my wifi connection – without creating a restore point beforehand. One computer is still connected to wifi without problems, though I'm not certain about printing. My computer can only connect to the internet via ethernet and I get printing error messages even if I plug the printer USB (though the printer may have another problem).

1. NVIDIA vs. Atheros that appear on my screen – how to determine which I'm to use if I'm following troubleshooting procedures?
2. Network map – my McAfee security system is once again showing our home network and identifying all as friends
3. I have no internet without the ethernet cable
4. I've powered off the router and modem multiple times. What will happen when I use a paperclip to reset the router? Will I lose IP addresses, etc?
5. Can the wireless connection info in Control Panel be restored to a default state?

I have tons of screens shots if they'll help anyone.
Much thanks in advance!

By: Silvino B. Magalhães

Silvino B. Magalhães — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:20:17 +0000

How to make windows 7 accept a wpa/tkip wireless connection ? Its see the router as wep protocol, then rejects the connection as failure in authentication. If I try to make a namual connection with wpa/tkip as be on router, windows show wpa/tkip protocol but show a red X on it and disable the connection button. What is this ?

By: Dang

Dang — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:47:41 +0000

Been through all of the above procedure, however upon reaching connection option, the "manually connect to a wireless network" is not included.

By: Ullis

Ullis — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:28:50 +0000

Hello!

I've this kind of problem: Before I could connect easily to wireless internets. But now, even if the password/passphrase is for sure correct I get the notification about "The network security code is not valid" and then something about the password needing to be long enough or something. With this same password or passphrase my family has manage to connect the other laptops without any problems.. I have tried to go through mý internet settings but cannot find anything that would stop me from connection.. I'm not good with computers… Anyone? Help? Had the same problems? What to do?
Thanks!

By: Doyle Manuel

Doyle Manuel — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:32:02 +0000

My school has a wired and wireless network (all computers there are macs). My new Dell pc – using vista- recognizes the wireless network and says it's connected however when I open Internet Explorer it searches for the homepage but then says " Page cannot be displayed". Can anyone tell me why I cannot get on the internet wirelessly?
I cannot get online using the ethernet cable either (using Vista). Is it possible to put in the ip address etc manually on Vista? I can do this with my mac and it works fine. I also have an older pc using Windows 2000 and I can connect to the network using the ethernet cable. Why not with Vista? I really need to use my pc at work. Help!

By: wendzha

wendzha — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 00:22:19 +0000

hey, my laptop is hp …
and the network just suddenly cant work while my desktop works well. and the network center said the connect saved in your computer for the network does not match to the requirements of network
what the heck is that> can u help me to solve this problem?

By: master

master — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 13:21:32 +0000

thats a bullshit..well thats is right..but the problem here its that tha ssid is hidden…we need how to identify or how to hack..so we can connect or sneak to their network