I hate my Linksys Wireless Router [Solved]

I had this very same problem with a brand new laptop I bought this past week. The Linksys router was on and functioning, but my new Vista laptop did not detect that the Linksys router was broadcasting. I went into the Linksys web site that we all have to go to to reset the router at http://192.168.1.1 and found the problem.

Sign in with your user name and password (if you have set one) and go to the tab named "wireless" and look at the term "SSID Broadcast". If it says "disable", check "enable" instead. Then click "Save Settings" and log out.

What this does is broadcast your signal within a certain limited area. On my old laptop I disabled this so others in my community would not see that I had a wireless signal being broadcast, and my old laptop with XP still picked up the signal. Unfortunately, this new one with Vista does not. Once I changed these settings my new laprop with Vista connected immediately.

I hope this helps.

Regards,

Sherri

This page from the Linksys help FAQ may help as well:

http://linksys.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/linksys.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=5451

If the above suggestion does not work, make sure to check the compatibility of your particular Limksys router model with Vista from the Linksys web site at:

http://www.linksys.com/...

Good luck!

Sherri

you can try to access the wireless router by logging in 192.168.1 and check the wireless to see if it is broadcasting the wireless signal.make sure that the wireless is enable.to make things even easier to can reset the router so that it can go to the manifacture setting and then trt to connect to the internet.it got to be your router
I hope that can help...let me know if it doesn't help so we can got to another step

For the accessing the router you need to be on your windows Me computer. If your on your vista and cant get to it i think that would be the issue. to log in url is http://192.168.1.1 user and pass are admin and admin
the SSID is under the Wireless tab.

First of all did you configured your router connection ,what connection do you have and what kind of router ?


Is it a modem router or only a router and what are the operating system on your different machines?


Try to reset the modem and check the ip settings

Hope that can help

Cheers:)
yron

hey, i had a problem with my router as well, i found out that it wasn't resetting my ip address every time i went on, so i had to do it manually.

Go Start > Run > type 'cmd' in the window (without speachmarks), then press enter.

type in 'ipconfig /release', then wait

when done, type 'ipconfig /renew' then wait until it done.

This solved my problems, hope it solved yours.

(P.S. if this method works, it means you router is stuffed)

I think i know your problem im going through the same thing and the problem you have to cheak for is if your router is compatiable with windows Vista some of them arent =) hope this helps

you have to select what wireless connection to connect too by right clicking on the wireless symbol at the bottom right corner of your screen and choose lynksys for connection then try it you should be activated if not re-activate it

me to!! it connects to my lapto bt notmy ipod touch , wii , etc ... im getting angry and stressed please give me a answer

please help me install lynksis 192.168.1.1. provide me an installer. I have this [lynksis 192.168.1.1 wireless router) already purchase but i do not have installer. please provide me installer

Hell0 I am a techno-geek or what ever you people/aliens call me. I do have problems with my wireless-g and I am smart with laptops/computers/servers.