Network newb, need help

[Bark4Soul]

I just moved to suburbia hell and had to change up all my network stuff once again. So when I got here, a friend setup everything for me (or so I thought). The network here works perfectly fine with the 2 laptops on it, they connect whenever they are turned on no problem.

Mine is a diff story, when I search for all the networks in range, it wants to connect to the ones that I cant connect to. The network here has no security or network key, I just made it the preferred network to connect to and I checked everything I thought I needed to. I have a wireless card in my box and it takes forever (sometimes not at all) to connect. Can anyone suggest anything? I really want it to NOT connect to the neighbors stuff...can someone help me fix this and get these two components talking plz?

-Bark-

 

[Daveskater]

are you using windows xp or vista?

 

[Bark4Soul]

Windows Xp

 

[nickc]

the easiest way would be to wire to the router.

 

[DelJo63]

we have to guess at the devices being ALL wireless, two seem to work ok and
the thrid is marginal.

brand names, make/model numbers would help here.

If your wireless router is a different vendor than your problem system,
be sure to update the router firmware and the system adapter driver.