I have this new router, and I set up my connection like this:
- 2.4 GHz B-G-N
- Mode AP + WDS
- Channel width: 40 MHz
- Channel number: auto
- Security disabled (just for now)
My network card is the Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG
Anyone else can see and connect to the network, but I can't. I can also see other networks, just not mine.
Does anyone have any suggestions on how to solve this problem?
Best Answer
Are your old wireless card and your new router both the right version for your country (or really, for your radio regulatory agency domain)? For example, USA's "FCC" radio regulatory agency allows only channels 1-11, and FCC rules are used the the USA and Canada (and perhaps Mexico). Whereas Europe's "ETSI" agency allows channels 1-13. If your wireless card was an FCC model and your router was an ETSI model, and your router auto-selected channel 12 or 13, then it's not much of a surprise that your FCC card can't see it on those channels it's not allowed to use. Even if it's not an FCC vs. ETSI issue, I've seen some Wi-Fi devices that perform very poorly on certain channels because of internal RF/EMI interference from the host system, or other radio/antenna design problems. Try manually setting the channel on your router, and try a few different channels in different parts of the band (like 1, 6, and 11) to see if the channel matters.
Another possibility is that your old B/G card is getting confused by the N-specific options it's seeing in the Beacons and Probe Responses of your new router. Try temporarily turning off N support in your new router to try to make it look like a plain old B/G router, and see if your B/G card works better with it in that mode.