Questions tagged [wireless-networking]
Also known as WiFi. This tag should be used when asking home WiFi networking questions or connecting your personal computer to a public network. Questions about enterprise or corporate wireless networks are off topic.
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How do I change the key for a Wi-Fi connection on an iPod Touch?
I use my iPod to connect to the wireless netwrok at work. There is a rotating key which changes periodically. I can't find a way of changing a key for an existing connection. Is there a way to do this,...
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Trouble Accessing Internet through Wireless Router
I'm having trouble accessing the internet. I can connect to my wireless router successfully, but I can not access the actual internet. However, other computers connected to the same network can. What ...
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wireless usb disk?
My dream is to have a "USB disk" I can access (wifi or bluetooth) without taking it out of my wallet. Does something like this exist?
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Windows XP randomly disconnects from my WiFi network and doesn't bother trying to reconnect. What can I do?
I've got a laptop running Windows XP (too old to upgrade) and it does something that's maddeningly frustrating: every now and then, I find my network connectivity has disappeared. If I go to my "...
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Why is my internet so slow?
Our home has a reasonably fast internet connection, but a while back one of our laptops (running Vista, connecting over wifi) has been suffering from slowed down internet speeds (about 1/3rd of the ...
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Intel Wireless 4965AGN not achieving N throughput when connected to an AirPort Express N network [closed]
I have an Intel Wireless Wi-Fi Link 4965AGN adaptor in my laptop (HP Pavillion dv2000 series) which is connecting to a 5GHz-only 802.11n network provided by an Apple AirPort Express. The network is ...
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How can I clear out all old Wi-fi settings on Windows 7?
I watched Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS) in Windows 7 on Channel 9 and would love to test it out. But my laptop is already set up. In the video one of the guys go into the command prompt and runs some ...
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VPN Connection can't find wireless connection
I have a VPN connection to a client site that has been very flakey. I use a wireless connection (home) through which I would ordinarily be connecting to the client's site via the VPN - also set up on ...
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How can I make wifi work after suspending, Ubuntu 9.04 on Lenovo T61
After resuming from suspended state, my wifi seems to never be able to reconnect to networks. It keeps searching and trying to connect, but then fails. The list of networks never seems to update ...
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Do those wireless usb adapters have lag/performance issues?
Are there noticable issues at least for gaming and streaming video?
And that compared to wired straight to router.
(I'm talking about the adapters to connect to the router, not the ones that connect ...
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Status of mesh networks [closed]
As hardware becomes cheaper and wifi connectivity more pervasive, it won't take much time before mesh network of private citizens start to pop up like mushrooms, isolated from the internet or with a ...
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How do I create a wireless linux router from a spare server?
I'm going to be doing some experiments with network traffic sniffing and I would like to setup a linux box as my home router. Are there any really easy ways to do this and have a web-configurable ...
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Is there a way to bind a wireless network to a proxy setting?
Is there an existing program to set an specific wireless network to a certain fixed proxy configuration?
If there isn't, do you know if the necessary API exists to change it with a script or small ...
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Issue where Wifi works for skype but not for any browser?
On a Windows Vista machine when connecting to broadband using wifi I see the connection OK, and things like Skype work fine wirelessly, but all browsers give page not found errors. Have tried IE, ...
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Can a Netgear Wireless Cable Modem Gateway (CG814GCMR) be used as a normal wireless router?
It looks like the idea for this thing is that it's a cable modem and wireless router all in one. But it doesn't seem to be working as a cable modem and I have another cable modem that does work. Can ...
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