On 27/02/2009 22:13, London School of Puppetry wrote: > > Hi there, When I am working at a colleague's house, I use my laptop > and her wireless connection- it was BT and the connection was > unreliable for her desk-top and I could not get a connection at all. I > now have a new lap-top and coincidentally she has switched to Tiscali > and they sent her a new router or is it a modem? You would think all > would be well? All was well for a few months and now once again her > connection is on and off although it says there is excellent strength, > and I never get a connection- Any ideas? > One thing I have found is if you use a WPA key with less than 8 characters it will appear to connect and not work. At first I just thought it was my Dad's router that did this but I've also seen it on a Belkin router too.
Are you able to connect if you plug a cable into the router? Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/