Thursday, March 3, 2016

End of a Recurring Frustration

Winter photos.

Or at least I hope this is the end. I often have trouble with Internet connectivity when I travel and sure enough, I couldn't connect when I arrived at the resort. Now each unit has its own modem (nice an fast) but my old Lenovo laptop gave me only limited connectivity. The PC reached the router but not beyond. Our three Apple devices (iPod, original iPad, mini IPad) and Samsung Galaxy s6 connected perfectly, of course.

I've searched for a solution off and on for about a year, to no avail. One of the proposed fixes was a registry edit to delete all keys referencing any problem router but that didn't work, and other ideas were useless as well. Finally I found this one on a Microsoft forum:


Click on:
  • WiFi connection
  • View Connection Properties
  • Security
  • Advanced Settings (opens 802.11 settings)
  • Check Enable Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) compliance for this network
  • OK
Worked like a charm.