Dreamquick - 2:33 pm on Dec 12, 2003 (gmt 0)

Tried this a while ago myself and I'll share the most profound moment I had setting up my wifi;

I had an ethernet card (no LAN connection) and a wifi adapter (connected at 95% strength to my AP) in my machine when trying to move from 56k modem to an 802.11 ADSL modem/AP/router bundle. I found that I needed to disable the ethernet card via the device manager and then restart so that the network traffic passed through the wifi adapter rather than getting stuck at the disconnected ethernet card. This took me the best part of 2 days to work out, especially since the restart part was important.

I'm sure there is a more elegant solution but this one worked for me. Despite the fact that this was a likely configuration they didn't mention this in the two-page "set-up guide" - the only reason I spotted this is one of the product reviews mentioned it in passing.

If that doesn't help you I'd try connecting to the device itself just to check that it's all working on the inside before proceeding any further (mine had ethernet + wifi so I just used ethernet to configure it initially).

Assuming you can connect to the device, my second step would be to update the device firmware and check for the latest drivers for the adapter - often the device you recieve is often running either v1.0 drivers/firmware or a version other than the latest.

If all else fails there will be an unofficial support forum for your choice on hardware, have a read around there as if you're having a problem someone else probably is too.

- Tony

[edited by: Dreamquick at 2:44 pm (utc) on Dec. 12, 2003]