Monday 5 January 2009

Wireless stops working after XP SP3 installation

A friend brought her laptop round to mine yesterday, as after xp had done an update and installed xp sp3, the wireless was showing as connected, but no page would load. When wired in, all was fine.

I tried connecting it to my WPA enabled network, and all was fine. After googlin the problem, I found that there were some issues that some people had had with WPA after xp sp3, but not with WEP - in fact, they were recommending switching to WEP (Not a good idea).

Anyway, I did the alternative, changed their laptop and belkin router over to wpa2 psk, and it's fine now!