Wireless laptop can see other wireless PCs but not wired ones

Baja Maniac 913 said:

Just to try to eliminate or confirm the hub as the problem (which is what I think it is IMO)...try connecting one of the computers that you can't see to the router directly and then tell us if you can see it in the network.

I appreciate your pitching in and trying to help, but given that I have disabled the cabled connection to one of the computers and connected it to the router over Wi-Fi and I still can't see it, that eliminates the hub.

tukatz said:

I appreciate your pitching in and trying to help, but given that I have disabled the cabled connection to one of the computers and connected it to the router over Wi-Fi and I still can't see it, that eliminates the hub.

Oh sorry...I missed that part...I'll ask about you problem at work today...we have a few guru's there (networking and win7).

So I powered off my laptop and left for a long weekend. I powered it back up when I returned home, having made no changes, and it could once again see all the other computers in the network. I have concluded that network discovery does not always discover everyone. No idea why.