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RBR20 SSID not visible on older Windows 10 laptop
Router Information Hardware Version: RBR20 Firmware Version: V2.5.1.16 GUI Language Version: V1.0.0.375 Operation Mode: AP I am unable to see the SSID from my private and gueat network on a o...
RobGroen wrote:I am unable to see the SSID from my private and gueat network on a older (2014) Asus X551CAP laptop. The laptop is recently updated to Windows 10 and up-to-date with the latest drivers and BIOS installed.
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What to do to get my Asus laptop connected to my Orbi mesh RBR20?
My Windows 10 laptop has an option to manually enter the SSID of the WiFi access point. (It may ahve been titled "Hidden Network.")
Does your laptop have an option to manually enter the SSID?
I tried connecting tot the Hidden network. That didn.t work. Can't connect is the message.
RobGroen wrote:I tried connecting tot the Hidden network. That didn.t work. Can't connect is the message.
Well, fudge. On my Windows 10 laptop, connect to hidden network brings up a box to enter the SSID.
After that, it brings up a box to enter the password. (I discovered that the SSID is apparently "case sensitive". It's a mystery to me why some parts of internet addresses are sensitive to UPPER/lower case and other parts are not.)
For sure, this laptop has only a 2.4G WiFi adapter, so 5G settings are not relevant.
Hi CrimpOn,
Thanks for your sugestion.
I am a ICT-manager and Linux specialist. I know how to connect to a hidden network. As I mentioned in an earlier post I can't connect to the SSID with the "hidden network methode". It look like that the wifi adapter isn't able to communicate with the Orbi mesh network. It looks like they are both talking a other language.
Sorry if I missed this, but...
Is there some other WiFi that the laptop does connect to?
(an older WiFi access point? a smartphone Hot Spot?)