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Windows 7 locks the wireless network

Sunday 18th October 2009 12:11 AM

This was ever so annoying, but hey, it's only what is expected from Microsoft. A great 'new ?' Operating System - but with bugs.

It was evident in the the Betas, is evident in the TechNet retail installs and is evident in oem and shop retails versions of Widows 7.

The scenario is that your Wireless network works fine on Windows XP and Vista but as soon as you try getting a Windows 7 machine to join the network, not only does the W7 machine fail to connect but any other machines, aleady connected, now lose their connections to the Wireless, you will probably find that your wired connections stay good though.

The problem seems to have two stages to solve, both involving your wireless settings, one on your PC, one on your router.

Firstly, get rid of IP6, do that by clicking on the network icon in the corner of your screen and selecting 'Netowkring and security' - 'manage network connections' and then right click on the wireless network and go to properties, you will probably be asked to Continue or cancel for security, hit continue.

Take out the tick in the Internet Protocol V6 and see if you can connect, if so, good, if not, go on to the next stage - your wireless router.

Wireless Router -

This can be tricky as you need a machine that can connect to your network, you'll need another PC on Windows XP or Vista or you will need to use a CAT5 network cable to prceed.

Most wireless routers have a Web Page administration, go to that web page, if you don't know how to find i then you probably should be asking someone else to do this but most people who set up wireless can do it.

Once logged on to your wirless router you need to look for your wirless network security, you may find that you are connected via wep or wpa.

You will need to change this to WPA2, if your router has the option to connect via WPA+WPA2 then you are laughing, set that and let the router reboot.

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