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Howdy, We use a Linksys wireless access point in our home... On occasion (and apparently randomly) the systems show a message saying "Unable to connect to wireless network." At that point, if I try to reconnect, I see a dialog saying "Waiting for network" but no connect is created. When that happens, I have learned that if I power down the wireless access point, and power it up again, all the systems will connect in moments. What might be causing such a failure of the wireless, and might there be a way to correct it? Many thanks, -- Kenneth If you email... Please remove the "SPAMLESS."

RE: Using two computers on the same Cable or DSL line. I am writing this letter to ALL Wireless Router manufacturers. I have a Linksys Wireless Router Model:BEFW11S4. It is 7 years (yes, count them, all of seven little years) old. I have visited the Linksys website numerous times trying to set up the WEP/WPA security on that wireless router (as all responsible wireless router owners should!). I found that there are no links to any wireless router setting websites that are congruent with the screen shots from Linksys' own self help technical support site. I have had to call Linksys several times to resolve this issue only to be placed on hold for le…

RE: Using two computers on the same Cable or DSL line. I am writing this letter to ALL Wireless Router manufacturers. I have a Linksys Wireless Router Model:BEFW11S4. It is 7 years (yes, count them, all of seven little years) old. I have visited the Linksys website numerous times trying to set up the WEP/WPA security on that wireless router (as all responsible wireless router owners should!). I found that there are no links to any wireless router setting websites that are congruent with the screen shots from Linksys' own self help technical support site. I have had to call Linksys several times to resolve this issue only to be placed on hold for le…

Re: routers I am writing this letter to ALL Wireless Router manufacturers. I have a Linksys Wireless Router Model:BEFW11S4. It is 7 years (yes, count them, all of seven little years) old. I have visited the Linksys website numerous times trying to set up the WEP/WPA security on that wireless router (as all responsible wireless router owners should!). I found that there are no links to any wireless router setting websites that are congruent with the screen shots from Linksys' own self help technical support site. I have had to call Linksys several times to resolve this issue only to be placed on hold for lengthy times (sometimes my call was dropped …

Re: routers I am writing this letter to ALL Wireless Router manufacturers. I have a Linksys Wireless Router Model:BEFW11S4. It is 7 years (yes, count them, all of seven little years) old. I have visited the Linksys website numerous times trying to set up the WEP/WPA security on that wireless router (as all responsible wireless router owners should!). I found that there are no links to any wireless router setting websites that are congruent with the screen shots from Linksys' own self help technical support site. I have had to call Linksys several times to resolve this issue only to be placed on hold for lengthy times (sometimes my call was dropped …

RE: routers I am writing this letter to ALL Wireless Router manufacturers. I have a Linksys Wireless Router Model:BEFW11S4. It is 7 years (yes, count them, all of seven little years) old. I have visited the Linksys website numerous times trying to set up the WEP/WPA security on that wireless router (as all responsible wireless router owners should!). I found that there are no links to any wireless router setting websites that are congruent with the screen shots from Linksys' own self help technical support site. I have had to call Linksys several times to resolve this issue only to be placed on hold for lengthy times (sometimes my call was dropped …

RE: routers I am writing this letter to ALL Wireless Router manufacturers. I have a Linksys Wireless Router Model:BEFW11S4. It is 7 years (yes, count them, all of seven little years) old. I have visited the Linksys website numerous times trying to set up the WEP/WPA security on that wireless router (as all responsible wireless router owners should!). I found that there are no links to any wireless router setting websites that are congruent with the screen shots from Linksys' own self help technical support site. I have had to call Linksys several times to resolve this issue only to be placed on hold for lengthy times (sometimes my call was dropped …

Hello all.. I am having trouble connecting to the internet on my pc. I get: "Error 691: The computer you are dialing in to cannot establish a Dial-Up Networking connection. Check your password, and then try again. " Im positive the password Im using is correct. So thats not it. Im also getting the error message of "Firefox has caused an error in DIBENG.DLL Firefox will now close." Does anyone have any idea of what could be the cause of this? I am running Windows ME. Thanks in advance for all of your help.. Tarcia

I've finally got one of my computers to run search really fast--and it's becoming a really useful tool for me, finally. But I'm confused about many of its ways. For example, when I look to see where the file it's found is located, it will give me incomplete information. It says a file is on my desktop, but it's not visible to me on the desktop and must be within at least one folder. Do you know of any good tuts that delve deeply into the search feature so that I can really make it work for me?

Hi, Is there a fix for there not being buttons to remove or change installed applications in the Add/Remove part of the Control Panel? Most entries do not have the buttons, but some do. Any ideas? -paul

I use applications that have buttons near the bottom of the screen. If I move the mouse to those buttons and click, the taskbar unexpectedly jumps up and intercepts the click. I assume that Windows thinks it is being helpful, but this is really a pia. How can I turn off this "feature"? "Enhance pointer precision" is off.

all of a sudden I can't send e-mail using msn explorer I have no idea how or what is causing my issue please help.

Hi, I just installed Windows XP Pro SP3, and when I rebooted, my display theme reverted back to the old Windows 2000 classic theme. The original Windows installation was Windows XP Pro SP2, so there's never been any hint on this computer of Windows 2000. The display theme does indicate it is set to Windows XP (the default blue theme). I even tried to change it to Olive Green then to Blue again hoping to trigger a change, but no success. Is this an SP3 issue or is there something I can change in my configuration? Thanks

I have noticed of late, a tendency for automatic updates to just start up on their own without any warning. On a laptop with little space, I recently had to pull the plug pdq to stop service pack three loading without so much as a by your leave. Then today I turn on my pc (XPPro) and instantly the little shield appears telling me it's downloading updates, with no indication of what or why. Again, luckily, I have a wireless connection and can instantly pull the usb dongle... I always have my machines set to inform me of updates and only allow those that I particularly want. Now I find that the pc has been reset to completely automatic without any ac…

A friend of mine is running Windows Media Center. He had a virus and killed his system so I restored it from an image that was a year old. We put Service Pack 3 on his computer and updated all critical patches. Installed Explorer 7 too. Before the virus, he never had Service Pack 3 or IE 7 but I installed them since I wanted to get him all up to date before he takes his computer home. When he took the computer home, to install his personal software, he ran into similar issues with two of the installations. Quicken 5 and FireFox will not install. Firefox error indicates that it can't write to the Registry and the Quicken 5 error states something si…