• Windows 8 Laptop Cannot Connect to Wifi Router
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Hey guys, I've been googling this like crazy and have tried a lot of things but no success. Basically the laptop in question was connected to my router and was working fine until two major things happened. 1) I rebooted the router after adding a couple wifi devices to a "reserved" list. 2) Norton was deleted from Windows 8 (it wasn't installed but it was there) We've tried rebooting, refreshing, and updating. Nothing seems to work. I even defaulted the router. I can't seem to figure this out for the life of me. Just connected the laptop via tether though a cell phone tether. So it's the router for sure. But the laptop isn't blocked or anything. And everything else connects perfectly fine.
Does your laptop detect other networks in the environment? (is the WLAN adapter on in this case) Have you tried to update the driver in Device Manager?
[QUOTE=Merijnwitje;40276248]Does your laptop detect other networks in the environment? (is the WLAN adapter on in this case) Have you tried to update the driver in Device Manager?[/QUOTE] Yes and yes. It detects a whole slew of wifi signals int he area and they're all locked (smart people). And we've tried updating everything.
[QUOTE=Jurikuer;40279629]Yes and yes. It detects a whole slew of wifi signals int he area and they're all locked (smart people). And we've tried updating everything.[/QUOTE] This is a damn odd problem :S, maybe run System Restore before the point you rebooted the router and removed Norton, doing this does not affect your personal files, only system files. And perhaps you should run Windows Troubleshooter thing on the adapter. Or if you have no other idea left, reset the router's settings to factory defaults. Routers have a small reset button on the rear usually.
Have you got a spare network adapter you could try using?
Did you upgrade your laptop or is it new? Try setting your wireless channel to 1/6/11.Some wireless routers when on auto channel setting are able to use channel 12/13 which laptops from certain geographical location (Read: U.S.) are not able to detect/connect. [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_WLAN_channels#2.4.C2.A0GHz_.28802.11b.2Fg.2Fn.29"]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_WLAN_channels[/URL]
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