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laptop sees my network but I can't connect
I've been trying for two weeks to get my laptop to connect to my network. Both TV, cell phone and Tablet connect just fine. My network shows up on the "available" Networks, but when I try to connect...
CondoCat wrote:
My Laptop is a 2016 HP Notebook. It has a Realtek RTL8188EE 801.11bgn Wi-Fi adapter which is up to date and working fine.
I have basically the same laptop with the same adapter, that had the same problem with wifi6. The four solutions usually mentioned on this community are:
- Be sure the Realtek driver is the most current version.
- Activating and renaming the SSID of one of the 2.4GHz channels so that it is not name shared (basically allowing non-WiFi6 access)
- Lowering the transmission mode to an older standard (example, ax/g to n/g)
- Lowering the encryption (WPA) to an older standard (example, WPA3 to WPA2)
LenJr wrote:I have the Nokia tower and internet works on TV's, phones, etc. But won't even show up on my 3 year old Dell laptop running windows 10 on available networks. Please help. At this point, I'm very disappointed.
Hey LenJr, Crazy that just one device is being stubborn about connecting. I would suggest to try what CondoCat mentioned and create the separate networks for the 2.4GHz and 5.0GHz. A lot of times, devices can see one but not the other so when they are bundled it gets confused and fails to connect. Here is the step by step tutorial on how to do that. I love that the simulator has the visuals so you can see what you are looking for. https://www.t-mobile.com/support/tutorials/device/t-mobile/nokia-5g21-gateway/topic/web-user-interface/how-to-change-the-ssid-name-and-password-gui/1
