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dmanrevived 2007-08-14 04:33

Wifi not working at work
 
Brought my new 770 to work today, but for some reason, it couldn't find any connections. A coworker said his laptop can see quite a few, and my 770 finds more wireless connections than my laptop when I'm home.

Any ideas why? I was in the same room as our router too, and I rebooted a few times just in case.

Milhouse 2007-08-14 11:49

Re: Wifi not working at work
 
Yes, they're probably all hidden. The Nokia, quite rightly, doesn't list hidden networks (where SSID is hidden) in a scan, whereas Windows machines do (bug or security risk in Windows? Possibly - Windows renders pointless the hidden SSID feature).

You need to manually create the hidden network in Control Pannel and mark the network as hidden.

dmanrevived 2007-08-14 16:28

Re: Wifi not working at work
 
Hmmm I'll check that out. I don't think we actually hid our SSID though.

No wait a minute... my coworker runs Ubuntu on his laptop, so it wouldn't be a Windows seeing-hidden-SSID's thing.

Milhouse 2007-08-15 02:22

Re: Wifi not working at work
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by dmanrevived (Post 68426)
Hmmm I'll check that out. I don't think we actually hid our SSID though.

No wait a minute... my coworker runs Ubuntu on his laptop, so it wouldn't be a Windows seeing-hidden-SSID's thing.

Might not be just a Windows "bug" :)

dmanrevived 2007-08-16 19:00

Re: Wifi not working at work
 
It turns out I can see the router and other routers too when I'm down the hall, but I can't see any routers when I'm sitting in my office right beside the router...


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