Hi, I am a total novice at this sort of thing, so wondered if any one could help me. Have an Amilo 2727 laptop running on vista, have previously connected to wireless at a friends house. Brought the netgear WGR614, connected all the wires, amended all the settings as required via the IP address etc. But laptop still does not pick up the router, picks up a neighbours wireless router but not mine. Do not know what I am doing wrong. This is the 2nd router I've had in 2 days as thought the other was faulty. Please can someone give me any ideas as to what may be the problem?? Thanks in advance

When you say, "amended all the settings," what do you mean? Did you set up encryption in the router setup for security purposes? If so, did you add the settings at your PC? 1 Corinthians 15:3-4

Yes I set up the WPA-PSK [TKIP] password and then det up a manual wireless connection on my laptop. have also reset router and tried with no security also, but laptop still will not pick up the router.

What is the IP address of the router? Can you ping it from the laptop? What about the IP of the laptop itself? Is it set up to obtain an IP address automatically from the router, or did you assign it a static IP? 1 Corinthians 15:3-4

The router Ip address is 192.168.1.1. It is set to obtain IP address automatically. When I do the ipconfig/all it says media disconnected. My wireless is turned on, as it picks up a neighbours router. I have updated the firmware for the router and the driver for the wireless card. I also have no idea how you can ping the router can you please explain. The LAN works going through the router then connected to the PC but this seems to be only way I can connect to the internet at the moment. It is just driving me mad because I cannot figure out what is wrong.

This is my results from ipconfig/all and pinging the IP address Windows IP Configuration Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : Carolyns Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . : Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Hybrid IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No Wireless LAN adapter Wireless Network Connection: Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Atheros AR5007EG Wireless Network Adapter Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-16-44-E2-19-9F DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection: Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Realtek RTL8101E Family PCI-E Fast Ethern et NIC (NDIS 6.0) Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-1F-16-00-1A-2F DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::c0a4:ebf9:f075:3bfd%10(Preferred) IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.2(Preferred) Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0 Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : 12 September 2008 07:59:52 Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : 13 September 2008 07:59:51 Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1 DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1 DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1 NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Enabled Tunnel adapter Local Area Connection* 6: Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Microsoft ISATAP Adapter Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-E0 DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes Tunnel adapter Local Area Connection* 7: Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Teredo Tunneling Pseudo-Interface Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 02-00-54-55-4E-01 DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes IPv6 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 2001:0:d5c7:a2ca:24a6:a13:3f57:fefd(Prefe rred) Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::24a6:a13:3f57:fefd%11(Preferred) Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : :: NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Disabled Tunnel adapter Local Area Connection* 11: Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : Description . . . . . . . . . . . : isatap.{27F8AA3A-2295-4459-A8D3-7FF59B3C1 B2B} Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-E0 DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes Tunnel adapter Local Area Connection* 13: Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : Description . . . . . . . . . . . : 6TO4 Adapter Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-E0 DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes C:\Users\Carolyn>192.168.1.1. '192.168.1.1.' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. C:\Users\Carolyn>ping 192.168.1.1. Pinging 192.168.1.1. [192.168.1.1] with 32 bytes of data: Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=64 Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64 Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64 Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64 Ping statistics for 192.168.1.1: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 1ms, Average = 0ms

Your "Media disconnected" error issue sounds a lot like the problem I had with a notebook PC I purchased for our church. I found that if I disabled encryption, or if I used a USB wireless adapter, I could connect to my wireless router. However, when I re-enabled encryption and tried to access the router using the notebook's internal wireless NIC ... "Media disconnected." I happen to have a Linksys WRT54GL router, flashed with a third-party firmware called Tomato. I checked in a forum for others who use this firmware, and someone suggested that I disable a firmware feature called Afterburner. As soon as I did that, I could connect up to my router with no problem. I wonder if there might be a similar feature in your router's firmware settings. 1 Corinthians 15:3-4