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wireless b vs wirelss g

Mar 17, 2005 3:28AM PST

Help please.
I recently bought a laptop with wireless g my old network is still wireless b. My laptop will recognize the network but doesn't want to let me use it to get online (my other laptop is using a wireless b card and i can do all that) or access the other computers that i have shared for my home network.. any sugestions would be great

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Very odd.
Mar 17, 2005 5:01AM PST

My cards with G capability also talk to B networks. Can you supply the make/models of the cards and such so I can check if it is indeed a G "only" card?

Bob

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make and model
Mar 17, 2005 5:14AM PST

ok well lets see one of the cards is Broadcom 802.11b/g

at least that is what the device properties says. The Router is a Linksys BEFW11S4 V2/V3.

I don't know if that helps but would be great if it you have any info.

Thanks

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I see it's the b/g variety.
Mar 17, 2005 5:20AM PST

Hope you figure it out.

The usual is a firewall or settings the person has. Such as have WEP enabled and the selected devices don't work together with WEP. Try the plain defaults first.

Bob

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i am at default
Mar 17, 2005 6:01AM PST

I am already set at default. I have WEP encryption off. and the only thing that is different from default is my ip address... Thanks for the thought

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One thing...
Mar 17, 2005 6:09AM PST

My last router, right out of the box would not talk to a DLINK card. I updated the wifi router firmware, reset it all to defaults, put in my DSL setup and it worked. Then I secured it with mac filtering and such.

Bob

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mixed speed.
Mar 17, 2005 8:43AM PST

Is the router setup for mixed speed?

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MixSpeed
Mar 18, 2005 4:01AM PST

I don't know if the router is able to handle mix speeds... I thought that the wireless card was what steped back to 802.11b instead of G

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G only.
Mar 19, 2005 3:06AM PST

If the router setup to G only, then B won't work.

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router is B
Mar 20, 2005 12:21PM PST

The router is a 802.11B the card that is in the new laptop is a b/g card.... Any other ideas would be great help... Thinking it is the firmware but I am having a problem uploading the newest firware..

Thanks