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Wifi on Sony Ericsson W995?

Hi, I have a Belkin router, which has wifi alliance, we bought the router in April 09. Its setup is on WPA- Personal. 3 laptops are connected to it and work fine. I've recently bought a W995 on Orange and it doesn't seem to connect. I have no problem in finding the router, i input the password to the router and it comes up with can't connect to network. My question is, is the router set up wrong, which isn't allowing my phone to connect to it - OR is there a problem with the wifi on the phone. I can't imagine this being the problem, just our router not set up properly seems more likely. I have trawled through some web forums, and some have said about SE having a problem with wifi or that you need the WEP key to connect to wifi? Anyone got any ideas - would be appreciated. Chloe. If I change the WPA to WEP, will the laptop connections mess up? I wouldnt have thought so, but technology these days..... aha.

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1. Change your router security from WPA to WEP. Many PDAs and phones with wifi cannot handle WPA security.
2. It is possible, that on your Belkin router, you have 'MAC address filtering'. This means that even if you put the BSSID and password correctly into your phone, the router will still block you. Look around on your router settings, you might be able to get to it from http://192.168.1.1 but the IP address of your router may vary. When you find it, it may be under the name 'Wireless Access List' When you get there, you might be given the option to add the MAC address to your 'Trusted' list, but you may have to insert it manually. You can find out by looking in your phone's Wi-Fi settings. (It might be printed underneath the battery) I doubt it is anything to do with WPA. And yes, if you change it to WEP, you will have a new 'code' that you will have to insert into the Laptops before you can reconnect. Also, WPA is more secure, so WEP isn't recommended. If you still cannot get it working, then try TEMPORARILY turning off all passwords of your Router Wi-Fi, so your phone should connect hassle free. (Obviously, once you've finished, turn the password protection back on) If your phone cannot connect to the Wi-Fi even with no password, and you are sure there is no 'MAC address filtering' then it is clear your phone's Wi-Fi is broken. If it could connect, then you may be inputing your password incorrectly.