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Trouble with quicken and R6250
Any ideas out there about getting the settings right on my R6250? Everything was fine at my last apartment--my own modem Netgear CM400 and wireless R6250. All Quicken and my Credit Union downloa...
MillsGuy wrote:
1. My Windows 10 laptop cannot see the 5G wireless. My Apple products, Iphone, ipad, can see and use the 5G signal.
Windows likes to protect us from unknown sources that might be evil. Try running the Widows network troubleshooter.
One thought is that you could tell Windows that you are on a "private network".
- Network and Internet settings
- Network Status
- Change Connection Properties
- Network Profile
- Private
I'm told that this is rubbish advice. But it has worked for me and others in the same boat.
I assume that the laptop is 5GHz capable, and that you meant 5 GHz wifi and not 5G mobile. They aren't the same thing.
MillsGuy wrote:
I moved to a condo complex with, I guess is a community modem, through ISP DataStream. Now my R6250 is connected with ethernet line from the wall.
That could hide many things. Is this "ethernet line from the wall" connected to its own router? That will make life difficult for your R6250.
In general, when moving from one Internet source to another it helps to reset the router and to set it up from scratch for the new location. Did you try that?
> [...] Now my R6250 is connected with ethernet line from the wall.
> [...]The non-psychics in your audience might know very little about what's
behind your wall.> 1. My Windows 10 laptop cannot see the 5G wireless. My Apple products,
> Iphone, ipad, can see and use the 5G signal.Does that (unspecified) "My Windows 10 laptop" "see" a 5GHz signal
from any other router? Which 5GHz radio channel is the R6250 using?Does that (unspecified) "My Windows 10 laptop" work with a 2.4GHz
signal from the R6250?> 2. Quicken Update and my Credit Union cannot link and download
> transactions like it use to.
"cannot" is not a useful problem description. It does not say what
you did. It does not say what happened when you did it. As usual,
showing actual actions (commands) with their actual results (error
messages, LED indicators, ...) can be more helpful than vague
descriptions or interpretations.It's especially unhelpful to anyone who also knows nothing about the
way "it use to."> DataStream offered [...]
Again, no idea what anyone did or learned in that conference.
> [...] Leaving only the R6250 is the apparent problem.
If you say so. I have nothing on which to base a judgement.
According to you, it worked fine before you dropped it it into this
new/different environment.
> Any ideas where I should look or change settings?Based on this info? Not I. I'd be slightly interested in the IP
address of your computer and every IP address on the ADVANCED > ADVANCED
Home page in the router's management web site.If you wire your (unspecified) "My Windows 10 laptop" directly to
"the wall", does everything work as expected?
> I'm told that this is rubbish advice. [...]Repeatedly, and for solid reasons, for which you've never offered any
counterargument beyond "I know it's true." For example:https://community.netgear.com/t5/x/x/m-p/1989828#M170698
This nonsensical advice goes beyond obviously untrue to just plain
stupid. Repeating it with no defense against the clear evidence that
it's nonsense makes it Double Stupid. Citing in this case makes it
Double Extra Stupid.> 1. My Windows 10 laptop cannot see the 5G wireless. [...]
If the Windows system "cannot see the 5G wireless", then where,
exactly, would you expect to find the Properties of the resulting
nonexistent Network Connection, whose Private/Public attribute "should"
be changed? THE WORLD WONDERS.> [...] But it has worked for me and others in the same boat.
_Which_ "boat" is that?You should take that argument to the nearest Starbucks (or any other
free Wi-Fi source), and explain to all the other Windows laptop users
there why they need to extinguish their network security in order to do
what they're already doing. As previously suggested. Repeatedly.
> One thought is [...]
"thought" is exactly what's missing from that advice. Which might
explain why no one else ever offers it in a situation like this.Note that in this case, with your own router, "Private" makes sense.
But "Public" does not disable basic network connectivity. If it did,
then it would be utterly useless (and, hence, would not exist).https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/0460117d-8d3e-a7ac-f003-7a0da607448d
o Public network. Use this for networks you connect to when you're
out and about, such as a Wi-Fi network at a coffee shop. Your PC
will be hidden from other devices on the network, and you can't
use your PC for file and printer sharing.File sharing and printing are different from using a web browser.
"rubbish" would be a polite term for advice like this, but the forum
rules preclude a more accurate description.> [...] Try running the Widows network troubleshooter.
> 1. My Windows 10 laptop cannot see the 5G wireless. [...]
See "cannot see the 5G wireless", above. What's to "troubleshoot"
when there's no connection? Please, enlighten us. Or, better yet,
please spare everyone any more of this distracting drivel.> I'm told that this is rubbish advice. [...]
And, like a delinquent teenager with a can of spray paint, he
deposits his "contribution", and then runs away and hides, leaving
others to try to clean up the mess. Again.