Older computer will not connect to wireless?

Question

I have an older computer. I have a cable connection and a wireless connection (with the code) But it will not connect, WHY? and can someone step me through it. I also have a Linksys Internet Router

Answer 1

Since you have a Linksys router, and you're already connected to the Internet in some way, download and/or transfer this to your old computer and run it:

ftp:// ftp.linksys.com /downloads/ NA/ other/ EasyLink_Connect.exe (remove spaces)

This is directly from the Linksys website, so it should definitely be safe. It is a step-by-step wizard that you can use to troubleshoot, so run this on your older computer. Bear in mind that it only works on the following routers, as pulled from the website:

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Supported Linksys Routers

BEFSR11 BEFSR41 BEFSR81 BEFW11S4

WRK54G WRT100N WRT150N WRT300N

WRT330N WRT350N WRT54G WRT54GC

WRT54GL WRT54GR WRT54GS WRT54GX

WRT54GX2 WRT54GX4 WRT600N WRTSL54GS

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The operating system installed on your computer needs to be taken into account as well.

One possible reason that I can give is that your computer may only work using the insecure WEP protocol for the key when your router may be using WPA, which is more secure. While you can change your router to be using WEP (or even worse, no key at all), it is recommended that you upgrade the computer with a different wireless card that supports WPA instead as WEP is easily cracked these days.

There are other reasons as well, which the Linksys tool may be able to help out on.

Please reply if there is anything else I can help you with, especially in cases where the Linksys tool is not enough.

Answer 2

its a lot to say!!!!

check this link,if u read this ,u can be a mastry in wireless networking........

http://www.microsoft.com/athome/moredone...

Answer 3

Could be several reasons...

1) Processor cannot handle it

2) Operating System

Prior to windows 98 SE it was said it was not capable of handling broadband speeds etc so most ISPs ask for you to have Windows 98SE or higher to connect your machiene to broadband

3) Drivers

The drivers you might have may not be suitable for the Operating system your using and therefore you need to find the drivers relevant for the operating system your running it on

Most drivers are now for Windows XP, ME and do on.

Vista uses a completly seperate system to XP, ME, NT, CE

Just like 2000, 98, 95 are seperate to the above

and 3.11, 3.10, 2.0 and 1.0 are totally different to 95+

It varies on bit rates, OS style so forth

Example: 3.X used to run on a different version of MS-DOS compared to WIn95+

Windows CE, XP, so one run on windows NT technology and win32, win64 bit coding compared to its predecessors MS-DOS based operating systems.

Hope this helps