no wireless from 3 feet?

[arbitor]

as you may know i have got a new dell laptop (lattitude c400) which is quite old now but works fine. all day i have been on the net in work on it wirelessly as i bought a intel wireless pci card for it.

now i get home, my flat is wireless, the router is 3 feet away and nothing doesnt find it. although it finds 3 other networks from around and about?

any ideas router is a netgear. and is fine wirelessly with my flatmate upstairs.. but i cant see it at all here.

its not very good as i dont want to have a cat5 going into it all the time. i know someone on here knows alot more than me so lets see

thank you

[redlight]

which netgear is it mate. I had the same problem with mine connecting to a d-link adapter. With mine I switched it from auto108 to g&b.

[arbitor]

erm i dont know the code name dg something the one with the gay lights on the top.. i have tried changing that no change..

[dave87]

Which channel is it on? if its 12 or 13, your laptop may have US regional settings (the US gets channels 1-11, we get 1-13) and so it wouldn't see any working on channels 12 or 13 due to legal issues.

[arbitor]

thanks dave but its on 6.

its really anoying me because i want it to go on stuff while im in bed

i dont get it

[MadduckUK]

have you got broadcast SSID disbled? possibly after connecting the other comps that use the wireless?

[adam1701]

tried updating the firmware?

[arbitor]

thanks madduck what a plank, i dont know what it means so i didnt realise it had been turned off i assumed it was off before lol.

next quick one for you guys is.. when you take the power out of the montitor the brightness drops to save battery can this be stopped its anooying!! i couldnt see anything in the power bit.

thing is i swear i have sorted this before on some1 elses laptop but now cant remember how on my own.

cheers for the help guys really sorted me out.

[GoNz0]

you need to go into bios to set the power save options for the screen brightness, im not sure of your model but a lot of dell laptops use F2 to get into bios, and ALT + P to advance through the bios pages.

[MadduckUK]

no worries