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    From Mike Halmarack@21:1/5 to All on Tue Sep 19 09:58:50 2023
    Just moved the household tech, such as it is, to the bedroom from the
    lounge for decorating purposes.
    The bedroom has a Linksys WAP300N wireless access point.
    The laptops can see the access point. So can the phones. But the Dell
    which is the main computer can't. It can see lots of other wireless
    points but not this one.
    Can anyone please tell me how I might overcome this?
    --

    Mike

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  • From Andy Burns@21:1/5 to Mike Halmarack on Tue Sep 19 11:29:44 2023
    Mike Halmarack wrote:

    Just moved the household tech, such as it is, to the bedroom from the
    lounge for decorating purposes.
    The bedroom has a Linksys WAP300N wireless access point.
    The laptops can see the access point. So can the phones. But the Dell
    which is the main computer can't. It can see lots of other wireless
    points but not this one.
    Can anyone please tell me how I might overcome this?

    Might you have previously forced 2.4GHz vs 5.2GHz band on some devices,
    which now can't "see" each other after being moved?

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  • From Mike Halmarack@21:1/5 to All on Tue Sep 19 14:48:53 2023
    On Tue, 19 Sep 2023 11:29:44 +0100, Andy Burns <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    Mike Halmarack wrote:

    Just moved the household tech, such as it is, to the bedroom from the
    lounge for decorating purposes.
    The bedroom has a Linksys WAP300N wireless access point.
    The laptops can see the access point. So can the phones. But the Dell
    which is the main computer can't. It can see lots of other wireless
    points but not this one.
    Can anyone please tell me how I might overcome this?

    Might you have previously forced 2.4GHz vs 5.2GHz band on some devices,
    which now can't "see" each other after being moved?

    Yes I might've done that. My simple sense of it is if all the others
    devices are seeing and connecting fine, the problem is in the config
    of the Dell. I've gone to Win 10 > Device Manager > Network Adapters >
    Intel (R) Centrino (R) Wireless-N 2230 > Properties > Advanced
    But I dont see "Band" on the list of options, or any other option that
    offers a choice between 2.4GHz vs 5.2GHz. Am I barking up the wrong
    tree?

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