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Problems connecting Emachines 350 series to Linksys e4200

I have an issue connecting an Emachine 350 series with a Broadcom Chipset over wireless connection to a Linksys E4200. The Emachine is running Win7 Starter with the newest Broadcom driver installed. I've tried all kinds of settings on the E4200( newest FW), channel, security, band, with no luck.
I'm experiencing that I can see the network, but connecting to it fails. I have no problems connecting other devices such as Iphones, Lenovo machines, Linksys Usb adaptors to the router.
Any ideas?

bgoering

Make sure you have both G and N modes enabled on the router. The e-Machine may be setup to use N band only...

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Chonsult

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@bgoering, I've tried your solutions. The settings renders the network invisible to the Emachine.
But is still working fine to other machines.
Any clue?

bgoering

Please post screen shots of the Wireless config on the Emachine and of the Linksys config

Chonsult

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Hi, the solution was to disable IPv6 on the Wireless network card. But tampering with the bands also helped.

bgoering

Glad you got that going - but it is generally not a good idea to disable IPv6 on Vista, 2008, Windows 7, or 2008 R2. See http://www.howfunky.com/2011/02/why-you-should-not-disable-ipv6-for.html

Another interesting read: http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/020811-cisco-linksys-ipv6.html

This is a great addition to the knowledgebase - I will be besting against my E3000 when I get home. Generally I use wired connections on my Windows 7 devices for better throughput. This is a good addition to the EE knowledgebase!