Wireless issues, but oddly the opposite of what you normally hear....

[Steve Flynn]

I'm working away from home during the week and have an Alienware mx15 laptop.

The B&B I stay in has WiFi available to the guests, free of charge.

If I boot into 8.10 I see the AP with a nice fat signal strength but
I'm unable to authenticate to it using the password given by the
landlady (the mac address of the router, if I'm not mistaken).

If I boot into Vista, there's no sign of it. Nada. Nothing there... I
can see someone's Sky connection with a very low signal strength but
not the AP in the living room of the house I'm in.

Back into Linux - there it is again, signal strength up at aruond 90%.

When I toddle off back home, and fire the laptop up, both 8.10 and
vista see my router (and about 12 other AP's in the vicinity), so it's
not my Vista drivers, nor my Linux drivers nor my physical hardware.

Anyone got any clues? I note that the AP is broadcasting (no hidden
SSID) on channel 13 - anyone else had issues along these lines? I have
to admit, it's got me stumped unless there's some restriction in
Microsoft Operating systems about the channel number... that's the
only thing I can think of to be honest...

-- 
Steve
When one person suffers from a delusion it is insanity. When many
people suffer from a delusion it is called religion.

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