Hi I hope someone can help with my frustration. After a fault in my laptop harddrive it was replaced by Acer (E630). This may not be to do with my problem - I had the same problem occassionally before hard drive crash, but now it's just hit and miss, mainly miss..
I have a billion 6200nxl wifi router. (recently bought an antenna to get better signal strength as it kept dropping out {house is surrounded by trees)but had good connection strength). I can connect to this router with my desktop, using a tplink usb adapter (half the house away), but my laptop does not see the same network. This is mostly permanent, but occassionally see it and all is fine. (I do only plug the router in to power when I need to use it.) I can however connect via an ethernet cable from my laptop and get the internet,using this router. What I want is to place the usb wifi router centrally in the house and use the internet via wifi (as my daybed is located in a room that has poor signal strength (used to drop out constantly - before buying router)
My laptop can however see and join a wifi network ,I had a friend set, up with my desktop (this router does not have usb modem capabilities).It's down the back of the house.
I am disabled and spend 16 to 24 hours a day in bed. I am trying to decide to stay with my current isp (desktop adsl,which has a wifi router attached to it {modem is not wifi)network dodo 1gb a month adsl for $25) or go to another isp that provides better value (virgin using virgin unlocked)E1762 usb modem[currently used with wifi router and the one giving me problems} - 4gb a month fo $30 or optus 4 gb a month for $30 I also have an unlocked E1762 optus usb modem.
Can any body help.
Yours in frustration Tad. (ps I am a relatively novice computer user, with adventure, but not the skills to match)