Problems with School Network.

Hi all, my university's network is a hidden network which requires user's credentials to login.

Security type: 802.1x
Encryption type: WEP
Network location profile: Work

My laptop's wireless adapter is a Ralink 802.11 bgn 1T1R network card with the latest drivers installed for Windows 7. I am on Home Premium by the way.

I get Excellent signal in limited areas around the school and sometimes even gets disconnected from the network totally. When it gets disconnected, the adapter can't detect the network.

I had no problems previously on Win XP with Good and Excellent signals around school. I've asked the techies and they said the network has endorsed Win 7.

I'm sure i got the connection settings correctly as i followed their manual guide.

Will it be a case of wireless adapter incompatibility issue? Please advise, thanks!

RuMmYtUb said:

Hi all, my university's network is a hidden network which requires user's credentials to login.

Security type: 802.1x
Encryption type: WEP
Network location profile: Work

My laptop's wireless adapter is a Ralink 802.11 bgn 1T1R network card with the latest drivers installed for Windows 7. I am on Home Premium by the way.

I get Excellent signal in limited areas around the school and sometimes even gets disconnected from the network totally. When it gets disconnected, the adapter can't detect the network.

I had no problems previously on Win XP with Good and Excellent signals around school. I've asked the techies and they said the network has endorsed Win 7.

I'm sure i got the connection settings correctly as i followed their manual guide.

Will it be a case of wireless adapter incompatibility issue? Please advise, thanks!

Hi RuMmYtUb, I assume you were able t to log on without any issue, when you were in range of your work's wifi. If you do, but get disconnected randomly, my first question is, do you have any third party software on your machine that manages wifi connections?

Do you know if your school has setup any non standard security with the wifi? At my work, i need to be given access to wifi on the work's security settings. Not sure if your school is similar. Any wifi device can detect your school wifi network if it is within range, but whether you can use the wifi 100% is a matter of setup at the network's end.

If W7 doesn't detect the wifi cos i't hidden, how do u connect to it? I'm thinking it detects the SSID within a certain range, and your machine is set to auto login, pending work authentication.

@ AEM, you can configure windows to connect to a hidden SSID,

I had some issues with this in vista, none in 7, Thank god.
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