wireless problem

[landrover]

I recently purchased a Belkin wireless adapter for my laptop because I was having trouble connecting to my bro-in-laws internet connection (I live in an addition off their house), and the adapter he installed on my desktop was not getting a connection. So I installed it, and was able to pick up half the neighborhood. But even though my bro-in-laws network is listed under available networks, it won't allow me to connect. It is not secured either. Any help?

[Patonb]

MAC filtering maybe.
Have you been onto tyhe router before?

[landrover]

not with this particular adapter

[Patonb]

hmmm, have you tried to reboot the router? Is itg xp or vista?

[landrover]

its xp

[McDuff]

Back awhile, I bought a Belkin N router hoping for more distance. Never could get the damn thing working, even spent an hour with their "tech?" support, they told me it must be a bad one, get another one. I went back to my old Linksys.

If you haven't already, try removing any/all wireless networks listed in your wireless network auto/manual connects, I had to do that with one of my laptops to get it to finally connect up. It was getting confused or something.

[rybread]

Try reinstalling the drivers and software for the wireless card. There may have just been a glitch when it installed. Also, if you're using the software that came with the card, you may want to disable the automatic Windows wireless software.