I have had a wireless network running for several years using a netgear router/modem. It became faulty and has just been replaced by a Netgear DGN1000. My ISP is TalkTalk providing an ADSL broadband connection which has been very reliable. I am using windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit and have had a reliable wireless network running with my current machine for over 18 months until yesterday!
Since configuring the new router, in my household there are 2 windows 7 laptops (1 Toshiba which is the same as mine and 1 dell Inspiron), one Dell Inspiron on Windows Vista and my son's XBox which are all working fine. In addition to the netgear router, we also use a devolo access point to give us full coverage and all other machines except mine can connect using both the netgear and devolo connections. However, my machine steadfastly refuses to connect to either. In fact, it did connect briefly after configuring the new router but quickly ceased the service.
I have been through the Network and Sharing Centre, using the "Manage Networks " and deleted the networks and recreated them several times. I have tried restarts and even a restore to a time prior to my setting up the new router. I can connect using the ethernet cable (hence this connection). When I try to connect through either the netgear of Devolo connection it takes an eternity to try and find the network and then comes up telling me it is an unidentified network (public network). I have compared the settings on my machine and my sons (Toshiba) and can't see any difference but it seems there is something stopping the wireless connection from recognising the networks in my house. I have double checked and got my wife to check the security settings and they are identical to her machine which works.
Any help would be appreciated.
Since configuring the new router, in my household there are 2 windows 7 laptops (1 Toshiba which is the same as mine and 1 dell Inspiron), one Dell Inspiron on Windows Vista and my son's XBox which are all working fine. In addition to the netgear router, we also use a devolo access point to give us full coverage and all other machines except mine can connect using both the netgear and devolo connections. However, my machine steadfastly refuses to connect to either. In fact, it did connect briefly after configuring the new router but quickly ceased the service.
I have been through the Network and Sharing Centre, using the "Manage Networks " and deleted the networks and recreated them several times. I have tried restarts and even a restore to a time prior to my setting up the new router. I can connect using the ethernet cable (hence this connection). When I try to connect through either the netgear of Devolo connection it takes an eternity to try and find the network and then comes up telling me it is an unidentified network (public network). I have compared the settings on my machine and my sons (Toshiba) and can't see any difference but it seems there is something stopping the wireless connection from recognising the networks in my house. I have double checked and got my wife to check the security settings and they are identical to her machine which works.
Any help would be appreciated.