Cannot make a wireless connection outside of my house

I have a a Netgear 54 Mbps WGR614 router hooked to my new Gateway
Desktop and I'm using a D-Link 802.11b wireless PC card adapter in my
7-8 year old Compaq Presario 1690 laptop. I have no problem hooking up
at home, but cannot hook up anywhere else; my son's house, the library
or hotels with wireless. When I do a site survey in my D-Link Air
Utility, It indicates that there are strong signals around, but I can't
seem to connect. In the "Link Info" page , Status - it says "not
connected". Would appreciate any help that I can get. Thanks.

jj9f wrote:
> I have a a Netgear 54 Mbps WGR614 router hooked to my new Gateway
> Desktop and I'm using a D-Link 802.11b wireless PC card adapter in my
> 7-8 year old Compaq Presario 1690 laptop. I have no problem hooking up
> at home, but cannot hook up anywhere else; my son's house, the library
> or hotels with wireless. When I do a site survey in my D-Link Air
> Utility, It indicates that there are strong signals around, but I can't
> seem to connect. In the "Link Info" page , Status - it says "not
> connected". Would appreciate any help that I can get. Thanks.
>

Wireless is squirrelly. It is often the case that a wireless network can
be detected, but the signal is too noisy, too low strength, etc. to make
a connection.

OTOH, you might disable the DLink software and use only XP's Wireless
Zero Configuration utility. Many find that the XP WZC works far better
than do the vendor's utilities.

Q

Quaoar wrote:
> jj9f wrote:
> > I have a a Netgear 54 Mbps WGR614 router hooked to my new Gateway
> > Desktop and I'm using a D-Link 802.11b wireless PC card adapter in my
> > 7-8 year old Compaq Presario 1690 laptop. I have no problem hooking up
> > at home, but cannot hook up anywhere else; my son's house, the library
> > or hotels with wireless. When I do a site survey in my D-Link Air
> > Utility, It indicates that there are strong signals around, but I can't
> > seem to connect. In the "Link Info" page , Status - it says "not
> > connected". Would appreciate any help that I can get. Thanks.
> >
>
> Wireless is squirrelly. It is often the case that a wireless network can
> be detected, but the signal is too noisy, too low strength, etc. to make
> a connection.
>
> OTOH, you might disable the DLink software and use only XP's Wireless
> Zero Configuration utility. Many find that the XP WZC works far better
> than do the vendor's utilities.
>
> Q

Thanks Q. Unfortunately this old laptop uses Window 98!!! :-(