Help with signal - limited connectivity

[mark]

Hi

I have an Acer laptop with wireless chip. At home links to wireless AP effortlessly.

At friend's house, I used to be able to link to wireless AP - but now it just shows "Signal - Excellent. Status - limited or no connectivity" - and I cannot find a way to rectify this and complete the connection.

In the past it has worked seamlessly at both locations. At friend's house, we have set up a network key etc to maintain some security, but none of this has changed since it was connecting just fine. The provider is BT and the router is a Voyager 2091.

Any thoughts on how to complete the connection will be MOST WELCOME.

thanks


mark

[brian]

You you imported your friend's network address to your laptop? I remember I had problems for ages setting up my laptop to the PC, but all that I'd failed to do is carry over my network connections via a USB stick to the laptop. Once done, all was fine.

You may want to watch out that you don't accidently delete your existing network settings for your home wireless network, though.

[Triumph]

There is such a huge disparity between the quality of different wireless components that it could be any number of things.

As Brian mentioned the connection details could be fubar too. Try reinstalling the profile for your friends house first.

[OneofaKind]

I used to get that problem on occassion. What I would do is open up the network connections in windows, right click on the the wireless icon and click on repair.

At times this would resolve the problem.