Wireless connections

Hi, I am hoping someone can help. This problem has plagued me for about 3 months. I have a home wireless network. Belkin router with a Hawking repeater. Both seem to work flawlessly. I have 2 desktops and 2 laptops. The desktops work fine. The basement desktop is directly connected to the internet while the 3rd floor one is wirelessly connected to the Hawking repeater. 1 HP laptop works great going off the repeater or even the Belkin unit, my other HP laptop does not work at all. It can find either of the two routers and it says I have an excellent connection but when I try to surf its extremely slow or sometimes it drops out. If I connect to a neighbors wireless, I get a great connection even though its low. I thought it may be my home network but everything else is running great. I have it set to WPA-SK encryption and have all the correct passwords. I even copied the setting from the working laptop to my other one and it worked for a while but no its still crappy. Could it be the card in the laptop? I thought so but then why does it connect to my neighbors with no problem? I hope someone can give me some clues.

It could still be the card if it's an older one. Wireless networks are often a pain to get perfect. That (and the fact that my 2 computers are less than 10 feet apart) is why I've been sticking to a wired network.

I haer that. I just don't want to string wires throught my condo. Everything else works except this one laptop. It's a fairly recent model that I got last year. IT worked fine when I bought it and now it seems not to pick up my netwokr correctly. At least I bought the service plan for 2 years.

Do you have the latest drivers for you card?

yep. I upgraded the driver and that didn't work, so I rolled back the driver and seems I was able to connect but on ly briefly. I was thinking I'd try reconfiguring my network from scratch and see if that might do anytihng even though it took me a long time to get everything to work in the first place.

anyone else have any ideas?

Try changing the Channel that the card, and router uses. I had a problem with a laptop card, years ago to where it had to be set to a certain channel freq, in order to work. You should be able to do this under the cards settings in the device manager, and read your router manual to see if they have a place to change it in the web setup for the router.

It's a fairly simple operation to alter the channel. I'll try that and let you know if I have some success.