For some reason my cousin is now unable to connect his Toshiba Windows 7 laptop to my home network. I don't understand why I'm able to connect with my Toshiba Vista laptop but he cannot We've had this same problem before, but I can't recall what we did to fix it. For what it's worth, my router is a BELKIN N F5D8236-4 ver. 1, and I'm pretty sure my Security is WPA - Personal and my Encryption Type is TKIP.
The strange thing is that last night and this morning the situation was reversed. He was connected to my network while I had lost my laptop connection and was unable to reconnect last night and this morning. When I tried connecting I kept getting the message "Connected with Limited Access," but I couldn't get online. Out of frustration I went in and fiddled with my network settings. Actually, I believe I went in and created a new network, although I used the same network name. I let the computer choose my new security key/passphrase, which I entered and, voila, I was back online immediately. When my cousin came in I gave him the new security key/passphrase and told him he'd probably need it to get online. Unfortunately, it didn't work for him. So now the situation has been changed to where I'm online and he isn't.
As I said, this same sort of situation happened at least once or twice before a few months back. There was a time when he could get online and I couldn't, and then there was another time when I could get online and he couldn't. It's too bad I can't remember what we did to finally straighten things out. I'm pretty sure the solution was quite simple. I would greatly appreciate hearing from anyone who can tell me what must be done in order to get both of us back online simultaneously.
(This is probably a stupid question, but could the directional positioning of the router be affecting his ability to connect? Even if that were a possibility, I don't believe that was the answer the last time we had this problem.)
Thank you.
The strange thing is that last night and this morning the situation was reversed. He was connected to my network while I had lost my laptop connection and was unable to reconnect last night and this morning. When I tried connecting I kept getting the message "Connected with Limited Access," but I couldn't get online. Out of frustration I went in and fiddled with my network settings. Actually, I believe I went in and created a new network, although I used the same network name. I let the computer choose my new security key/passphrase, which I entered and, voila, I was back online immediately. When my cousin came in I gave him the new security key/passphrase and told him he'd probably need it to get online. Unfortunately, it didn't work for him. So now the situation has been changed to where I'm online and he isn't.
As I said, this same sort of situation happened at least once or twice before a few months back. There was a time when he could get online and I couldn't, and then there was another time when I could get online and he couldn't. It's too bad I can't remember what we did to finally straighten things out. I'm pretty sure the solution was quite simple. I would greatly appreciate hearing from anyone who can tell me what must be done in order to get both of us back online simultaneously.
(This is probably a stupid question, but could the directional positioning of the router be affecting his ability to connect? Even if that were a possibility, I don't believe that was the answer the last time we had this problem.)
Thank you.