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Originally Posted by sandipv
I have already passed my activation date, and have all the lights and connections correct. I can connect to the internet only by physical Ethernet cable.
However I wish to connect using the built-in wireless card on my laptop, it is a brand new laptop with the latest wireless technology so I cannot understand why I cannot connect wirelessly.
I spent nearly over an hour talking to sky technical support going through the router settings and changing the security encryption from WPA to WEP and using a WEP network key etc. Still no luck, I can keep on getting an error message saying "windows cannot connect to this network".
Please can anybody help me, sky have already said they cannot help me any further, and have advised me to purchase a USB dongle from them, I would however prefer to connect without paying for a USB dongle and losing a USB port to the dongle. The laptop I am using is an Acer 5673WLmi, with a built-in wireless card... WLAN: Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG network (dual-band tri-mode 802.11 a/b/g).
Any help on this will be much appreciated!
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Go into Control Panel on the laptop and double click on the System icon.
In here click on the Computer Name tab.
Then click on the 'Network Id' button - and follow the instructions to set it to connect to a home network.
Reboot
Then back to control panel and click on 'Network Setup Wizard'
Follow the instructions - picking the 'residential gateway' option.
This might help