I bought a new Lenovo from Newegg and love it and it is way cooler than my old D810.
The old dell that I bought used for $30 a couple years ago has gotten to the point where there are places on it what will almost burn skin.
The new one was on sale and I figure the D810 is going to fry sooner or later.
I really like the Lenovo but one thing which is Windoze related I’m sure that I haven’t been able to beat is home wireless.
During setup it asked for the homegroup creditianls which I had ready and known right. The wireless never locked on. I figured I would do it again after first setup finished.
No dice. It sees the wireless networks around here including home. I reenter the homegroup stuff again and no connect. I plug it via hardwire and it prompted for the password which it took.
I’ve tried it on wireless networks at work and it locks on fine to them.
I have a four port netgear switch and only 2 are in use, no one is apparently taking a spare port. I powered down the switch and woke up the laptop and switch. No luck there either. Sooner or later I will get it to work. The switch is about 18 months or so old. I can’t seem to get more than two years out of home switches since they are made to die.
Have you tried going into the Network and Sharing Center, then, I think it’s called Configure Wireless Networks. It’s on the left below Change adapter settings, but I can’t see it right now because this desktop doesn’t have a wireless adapter. Anyway, you go in there and set up a profile for your network. I always name it the same as the SSID. You can enter any vagaries of your Netgear there, and it gives several options for authentication. Good luck!
Switch or router? If it’s a router you should be able to log into the router using a browser with the (usual) default gateway 192.168.1.1 and see if your wireless device is recognized in there.