Dear all.
Hidden Wireless Networks Are a Pain to Deal With.
I have actually 5 units using wi-fi in the house and one cabled with ethernet.
I am of course using the wired/cabled one to write this.
I inherited the HP p6506f, and I want to make it the 6th unit.
It has a wifi card and I for some technical reason I want to use it instead of the cable one.
The problem I mentioned in the title of this thread is almost solved now. My mistake was that this computer is not like the laptops, smart phones and tablets.
I had forgotten that I had to :
1 Click Wi-Fi Settings
2 Connect to Hidden Network.
3 select New.
4 Enter the Network name,
5 Wi-Fi security type
6 password.
etc.
to connect it to the network.
Now, why is Internet absent only on that computer when all the 5 others have access to internet?
Like I say to people with my unique designs the component (WLAN adapter) has no intelligence and therefore being on Mars or Earth is of no consequence Great to get stuff to work though, especially when some say that it canāt be done - love it. Best wishes
The dongle TL-WN725N I bought gives me 4,2 Mbps instead of the 30,0 Mbps I am paying for.
Here is what HP has to say:
Interface type: PCI-e half-length mini card
Data transfer speeds: up to 150 Mbps
Transmission standards: 802.11 b/g/n
Supported antenna connections: 1 (1 internal post to connect an internal)
Operating band: 2.4 GHz
Supported security protocols:
WPA
WEP
So I am beginning to think that my cousin may have added a wire to an antenna / cable that is lost and that may have broken the card.
Donāt know quite what to say - Today I wiped Win10 and ubuntu 16 from my Dell E6420 and quickly installed Trisquel to see just how fast it was I knew it would not have Wifi because of internal WLAN card being incompatible with FREE software. I could buy a suitable USB device but canāt be arsed at present as I only ever used wifi to connect printer upstairs so now just plug in cable. Most likely I will be on my ancient favorite HP G60 which has Wifi compatible with the FREEā¦!
So it does not affect me because I connect to the internet with a USB modem even when on holiday in our Motor-Home.
Stay Safe
ps by the way your graphic or whatever does not display
h-node
I knew it would not have Wifi because of internal WLAN card being incompatible with FREE software. I could buy a suitable USB device but canāt be arsed at present as I only ever used wifi to connect printer upstairs so now just plug in cable. Most likely I will be on my ancient favorite HP G60 which has Wifi compatible with the FREEā¦!
