Hi, I've checked the last few pages and googled the obvious, but the suggestions that are coming up are, bluntly, complete gibberish to me! I've just bought a new desktop PC (Acer aspire M3910) the has Windows & OS and am struggling to access the wifi at home. I'm using an Edimax EW-7711UTn dongle that worked fine with my previous PC that ran Vista - I've checked and it says that all drivers are up to date. The home broadband router is a DrayTek VIGOR2820, which again ran fine with Vista and runs with minimal problems for my brother's laptop that also runs windows 7. When I mouse over the network on the list it sets it as WEP security when the router is set as WPA-2 and it refuses to recognise the security key which I know is right. When I set up the network manually nothing happens and it still refuses to connect, even after rebooting both my machine and the router. Changing the security to 802.1x get a response, though this still doesn't connect - all other options seem to get no response at all.... Any suggestions (in simple english) would be appreciated. Thanks!

Hello amy_t_uk Have you tried starting from scratch? If not, I suggest you delete the existing connection and set it up again: 1. Go to Control Panel > All Control Panel Items > Network and Sharing Center > Manage Wireless Networks (in the left pane) and right-click the connection that you want to Remove. 2. Staying in the Network and Sharing Center, click Set up a new connection or network > Manually Connect to a Wireless Network > Next. Type in the Network Name (SSID), select Security Type (WPA-2) and type in the key. You may also want to tick ‘Start this connection automatically’ and ‘Connect even if the network is not……‘ > Next. 3. To display your Network Name and Security key, go to Network and Sharing Center, alongside ‘Connections:’ is the Network name (SSID). To see the Wireless key, click the SSID then Wireless Properties > Security Tab and put a tick in Show characters. 4. To display all the wireless network keys that you have on the system, including the key type, e.g. WEP. Read about it and then download WirelessKeyView 32-bit or 64-bit. Just unzip it (expand it), it doesn’t need installing, here http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/wireless_key.html

The first couple of steps were what I was trying last night. Don't know if it was trying it again this morning, uninstalling and reinstalling the drivers or just rebooting everything, but it seems to be working for now... Thanks for your help!

Why is one on wep and wpa-2.....? Set the pc to wpa2. Or is that the problem you can't set the pc correctly..?