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cme15
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Oct 28, 2019

A7000 Connection Difficulties

I brought a desktop that was not wifi-enabled to college with me. At the start of the semester I purchased the A7000 and had no issues connecting to my college's student wifi (Which is WPA2). I've been using it with absolutely no complaints since August.

However, today I returned from a midterm needing to use the Internet to complete some of my classwork and the A7000 was turned off. I restarted my computer probably a half a dozen times before reinstalling the drivers and that generally fixed the issues with getting the A7000 to actually turn on. Problem solved, I thought. Nope!

 

I now cannot connect to the wireless at my school. I can only manage to post this discussion using my phone's hotspot. I'm not super well-versed in working with this sort of stuff. The only thing I've noticed is that my computer cannot connect to anything that's WPA2 (The wifi I WAS using) now. Only WPA2-PSK (My phone's hotspot). Any help would be seriously appreciated.

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  • michaelkenward's avatar
    michaelkenward
    Guru - Experienced User
    Oct 30, 2019
    cme15 wrote:

    I now cannot connect to the wireless at my school.

     

    What happens when you try?

     

    Some sort of error message?

     

    Is this a Windows device?

     

    If so, my first guess is that you need to tell Windows that you are on a "private network".

     

    • Network and Internet settings
    • Network Status
    • Change Connection Properties
    • Network Profile
    • Private