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Wireless issue Brickcounter 12-09-07
Posted by Brickcounter on December 9, 2007, 5:36 am
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I have a friend visiting. His laptop is not 'seeing' my routers signal, nor
two other local signals that I can see on mine.
His picks up the signal from his own router when at home, so why doesn't it
see mine?



Posted by Paul on December 9, 2007, 6:21 am
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Brickcounter wrote:
> I have a friend visiting. His laptop is not 'seeing' my routers signal, nor
> two other local signals that I can see on mine.
> His picks up the signal from his own router when at home, so why doesn't it
> see mine?
>

All using the same standards ? A/B/G ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11

There are also some differences in channel allocations between countries.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_WLAN_channels

I expect the software you are using, is at least
as good as something like this. I wouldn't expect
a different piece of application software to change
things, but if your current software won't present
everything it can see, maybe a tool like this might
make a difference in listing what is out there.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetStumbler

It is possible that the README here, will help
identify other reasons it isn't working (SSID).

http://stumbler.net/readme/readme_0_4_0.html

Perhaps some wireless newsgroup, has a checklist
you can go through.

Paul

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