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Wireless Network: Time to Smash Something :)

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http://crunchbanglinux.org – Any help welcome before I smash my laptop and/or my router :)I have a Billion wired/wireless residential router connected to ADSL. Wireless with WPA is setup and working fine for ages. An Acer laptop with Windows Vista and a Samsung Galaxy phone can happily connect to the router over wireless in a room a few meters away from the router.My laptop (Acer Aspire 4710) with #! Statler with backports finds the router, but cannot reliably connect to it from that room. It tries to connect and keeps prompting for the password. If I carry the laptop into the room with the router, it connects fine. If I (HowTos)

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