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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.
 
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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.
 
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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.

Last edited by dmanrevived; 2007-08-14 at 16:40.
 
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Originally Posted by dmanrevived View Post
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"
 
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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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