Hi,
It is pretty strange that only one PC is not able to find and connect to the network. All I can do is give you a few suggestions to check the Network and the PC Settings.
-The SSID Broadcast and DHCP Server should be ON from the router, so that the network/ router would be visible to all the nearby machines and could assign IP automatically.
- Try to move the PC closer to the router and see if it can find the signal (the PC wi-fi card may not be power enough to receive the signals)
- Make sure that there are no obstacles such as concrete walls, metal cabinets between the router and PC. This reduces the signals and the PC fails to recognize them. Based on my on-site experience, I
suggest that you may relocate the router to another location depending upon
your network environment. It has always helped me a great deal. Placing
the router at the desk level, avoiding obstacles such as concrete pillars,
walls, steel cabinets etc in the signal path have remarkable effect on
range and overall performance of the network.
- Change the LAN settings of the PC to defaults.
Hope it helps! Good Luck! Thanks for using Fixya!
CreativeTECH
Thanks for the response, But I have used two words ID for routers and never faced any such difficulty. However, I am glad that the problem is resolved.
Well, as I said, the two-word designation worked for me. It didn't work for my daughter, who has a newer computer. Sometimes the magic works, and sometimes it doesn't.
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In case anyone is interested, I found out what my problem was: I had created a network with a two-word name, with a space between the words. What was strange was that FOR MY COMPUTER the network showed up in the list when I looked in the Network & Sharing Center (Windows 7) under "Connect to a Network" -- but in my daughter's NEWER computer it didn't. But when I took out the space in the network name, suddenly she too could find it. So it seems that you can use two words for some computers, but not for others.
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