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My 8 year old Lenovo laptop only sees my wireless printer
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My 8 year old Lenovo laptop only sees my wireless printer
My 8 year old Lenovo laptop only sees my wireless printer. It does not see the ORBI router. Any ideas as to what needs to be done?
Thanks,
Thomas
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Re: My 8 year old Lenovo laptop only sees my wireless printer
What orbi router is it? (model)
What wireless chip is in the laptop? (go to device manager to look it up)
What driver version is on the wireless chip in the laptop?
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Re: My 8 year old Lenovo laptop only sees my wireless printer
Ensure the wireless adapter drivers are updated on the laptop.
@TJP98 wrote:My 8 year old Lenovo laptop only sees my wireless printer. It does not see the ORBI router. Any ideas as to what needs to be done?
Thanks,
Thomas
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Re: My 8 year old Lenovo laptop only sees my wireless printer
It is an ORBI RBR750
The wireless chip is a AC 3160 , version 18.33.5.1 ( 10/9/16
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Re: My 8 year old Lenovo laptop only sees my wireless printer
You're way behind on your drivers.
Get them directly from intel and try it. Intel had issues with their older drivers not showing AX networks.
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Re: My 8 year old Lenovo laptop only sees my wireless printer
Please visit and post about this over in the Orbi AX forum:
https://community.netgear.com/t5/Orbi-AX/bd-p/en-home-orbi-ax
Thank you.
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Re: My 8 year old Lenovo laptop only sees my wireless printer
In the end I had to manually adjust the Wi-Fi adaptors settings within device manager by selecting the highest Wi-Fi protocol (802.11bgn).
Additionally I had a few other minor issues that were resolved by increasing the CTS Threshold and setting the preamble to Short.
Hope this helps.
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Re: My 8 year old Lenovo laptop only sees my wireless printer
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