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I can't delete a unprotected wireless connection

by pamelah Mar 17, 2006 2:30AM PST

Many years ago I installed a Linksys router and Linksys wireless network adapter on windows 98 at the time. (I am now running Windows XP.) I set up a wireless network but did not encrypt it. Stopped using it for quite awhile and recently aquired a Laptop running XP and decided to use the wireless again. This time I set up a network and encrypted it. Everytime I search for a wireless network the old one is still there. I am worried someone could be using it. I tried encryting with WEP both at the router and from the client computer. Linksys has been no help. Even when it appears I have successfully encrypted the old network, it still shows up as an unencrypted network. I upgraded the firmware on my router but nothing seems to help. What am I missing?

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(NT) (NT) How about Reseting the AP router to the default?

by Gakada Mar 17, 2006 5:01AM PST

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default router

by pamelah Mar 20, 2006 8:59AM PST

Thanks for the suggestion, it sounds like it should work. I believe I reset the router to default, my network did disconnect, but when I reinstalled the working encrypted network, the old one was still there! I'm going to keep trying and see if there is something I am doing wrong with resetting the router.

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