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DELL WIRELESS NETWORK

Jul 25, 2011 1:39PM PDT

I RECENTLY UPGRADED MY DELL INSPIRON 9100 LAPTOP. I SET UP A NETWORK USING MY HP DESKTOP AND TRIED TO USEE THE LAPTOP TO ACCESS THE NETWORK THROUGH THE WIRELESS ON THE DELL LAPTOP. MY FIRST ATTEMPT WAS SUCCESSFUL, BUT I REALIZED I HAD DISABLED THE SECURITY. AFTER SEVERAL ATTEMPTS TO USE THE WEP SECURITY, I FINALLY HAVE MY LAPTOP SAYING THE SIGNAL STRENGTH IS EXCELLENT AND THE STATUS IS COONECTED TO THE NETWORK, HOWEVER, I CANNOT SIGN ONTO THE INTERNET. ANY SUGGESTIONS? THANK YOU.

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Yes.
Jul 25, 2011 3:07PM PDT

Change to WPA or WPA2.

Here's why. WEP has a nasty issue that it will do EXACTLY as you wrote for many reasons. WPA or WPA2 will cough and tell you why it failed.

I can see you have the caps lock on and that can cause no end of WEP service calls. WPA and WPA2 fixes that issue.
Bob

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THANK YOU
Aug 14, 2011 2:27PM PDT

Thans for your input. I believe this has solved the problem.