[nfbcs] Wireless router connection problem resolved

[Steve Jacobson]

Tracy,

I mentioned this possibility, at least sort of, in a note on March 22.  I'm sorry it didn't point you toward this possibility clearly enough.  Glad you got it resolved.  Besides 
giving your network another name, set it to not broadcast its name which makes it much less visible to others in your area.

Best regards,

Steve Jacobson

On Fri, 2 Apr 2010 10:58:27 -0400, Tracy Carcione wrote:

>This is a follow-up to a problem I asked the list about a couple weeks
>ago.  We had a major power outage, and afterwards I wasn't able to connect
>to my wireless router.  But that was not the actual problem, as it turns
>out.
>I had called my router Linksys.  Apparently, at the time of the power out,
>someone else in the neighborhood set up a wireless router, and also called
>it Linksys.  So I was trying to connect, finding a Linksys, and not having
>the correct WPA key, because it wasn't my router.
>So the consultant changed my router name to something slightly less
>generic, and Presto! my connection is back.
>So I guess the moral of this story is, if you live in an urban area like I
>do, give your wireless router a unique name.
>Tracy



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