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Ok, first off, I am brand new to the whole PC thing. I've spent my
growing years on the net VIA WebTV, which is an excellent tool but not
very good for preping you for PCs. Anyway, I have a Toshiba Satellite
A75-S213, highspeed cable VIA Roadrunner, and a Belkin wireless router.
After the cable net was installed I had a great connection. Today, I
awoke to find my 12 y/o little brother on my LapTop saying "We don't
have a connection!" I check the router, all the lights that should be
on ARE. I check the modem and same thing. All connections are tight and
connected. I come back to the laptop and see the wireless network
connection on the bottom with the big red X over it. Yup, no connection
.... wait a minute ... what's this? Why is the local area connection now
also on the bottom bar with a big red X over it? That shouldn't even be
there! Well come to find out, I guess the connection wasn't happening
quick enough for him so he clicked on the wireless and tried to connect
manually, when asked for the passkey, he just hit enter ...
Now in my anger, I forgot to disable the local area connection, and now
that I have cooled down, this could have contributed to the problem and
prevented the whole reconnection process. But when I tried to connect,
and asked for the passkey, I entered the ones I had written down, but
neither took it to the next step of "Aquiring Network Address." My
question is ... when I get home do I kill my little brother, reset the
router (if so, how?), or try again with the local area connection
disabled? Now if he did change the passkey as well, what do I do? Is
there a way to reset that router and clear all those passkeys and start
from scratch?
Please remember when answering, I am a total n00b and know nothing
about the common lingo, or whatever. Most of my knowledge is in html.
LoL So please explain it as you would to a 5 year old. Thanks.
growing years on the net VIA WebTV, which is an excellent tool but not
very good for preping you for PCs. Anyway, I have a Toshiba Satellite
A75-S213, highspeed cable VIA Roadrunner, and a Belkin wireless router.
After the cable net was installed I had a great connection. Today, I
awoke to find my 12 y/o little brother on my LapTop saying "We don't
have a connection!" I check the router, all the lights that should be
on ARE. I check the modem and same thing. All connections are tight and
connected. I come back to the laptop and see the wireless network
connection on the bottom with the big red X over it. Yup, no connection
.... wait a minute ... what's this? Why is the local area connection now
also on the bottom bar with a big red X over it? That shouldn't even be
there! Well come to find out, I guess the connection wasn't happening
quick enough for him so he clicked on the wireless and tried to connect
manually, when asked for the passkey, he just hit enter ...
Now in my anger, I forgot to disable the local area connection, and now
that I have cooled down, this could have contributed to the problem and
prevented the whole reconnection process. But when I tried to connect,
and asked for the passkey, I entered the ones I had written down, but
neither took it to the next step of "Aquiring Network Address." My
question is ... when I get home do I kill my little brother, reset the
router (if so, how?), or try again with the local area connection
disabled? Now if he did change the passkey as well, what do I do? Is
there a way to reset that router and clear all those passkeys and start
from scratch?
Please remember when answering, I am a total n00b and know nothing
about the common lingo, or whatever. Most of my knowledge is in html.
LoL So please explain it as you would to a 5 year old. Thanks.