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won't connect to some devices
Netgear says my router is good and does not need to be replaced. My laptop, our two phones will connect to the internet. However, husband's laptop and our smart tv will not connect. This has never ...
katmo wrote:
- My laptop, our two phones will connect to the internet. However, husband's laptop and our smart tv will not connect. This has never been a problem.
Sounds like a problem with the laptop and TV.
These are wifi connections?
If everything else connects, then I'd investigate the laptop and TV.
Tell the laptop to forget the old wifi connection and set it up from scratch.
TVs are a pain to set up. The best way to deal with that is with the TV's set up routing. The router just puffs out wifi. It is down to the TV to do its stuff. You don't say what the TV is, so you are in your own there. I user Powerline Ethernet to "wire" my TV stuff to the router.
You can always do a hard reset to your router and see if that fixes things. Of course, when you do a hard reset you'll have to run the setup wizard for your router again.