Preface: I don't have much experience in Networking so sorry if I present stupid questions or sound dumb in general.
I just had a computer built and put in my own wireless adapter (TP-LINK TL-WDN4800 Dual Band Wireless N900 PCI Express Adapter to be extremely exact) and it worked just fine with my Belkin router. I move into my new apartment with a Linksys EA6300 as our community router. Everyone else (including myself on my laptop) can get on the internet with no problems at all. My desktop however, will recognize both bands coming in but is being extremely stubborn.
There are three different things that have happened so far:
1. It will connect ok but the connection is very unstable and will disconnect whenever it seems to feel like it.
2. One band will prompt me for the security key, and I will type it in (I am 100% positive it is the right key as I have done it countless times) and it will keep telling me "Security Key Mismatch"
3. The other band will prompt me for the security key and I type it in but instead of doing the security key mismatch it will just plain tell me it was unable to connect.
I have tried resetting both my router and my adapter, completely uninstalling and reinstalling everything to do with my adapter twice, and have been scouring anything related for hours upon end with no avail. Is it possible that the adapter and router aren't communicating simply because they're different brands? I can't seem to figure anything out, and any help would be very much appreciated.
I just had a computer built and put in my own wireless adapter (TP-LINK TL-WDN4800 Dual Band Wireless N900 PCI Express Adapter to be extremely exact) and it worked just fine with my Belkin router. I move into my new apartment with a Linksys EA6300 as our community router. Everyone else (including myself on my laptop) can get on the internet with no problems at all. My desktop however, will recognize both bands coming in but is being extremely stubborn.
There are three different things that have happened so far:
1. It will connect ok but the connection is very unstable and will disconnect whenever it seems to feel like it.
2. One band will prompt me for the security key, and I will type it in (I am 100% positive it is the right key as I have done it countless times) and it will keep telling me "Security Key Mismatch"
3. The other band will prompt me for the security key and I type it in but instead of doing the security key mismatch it will just plain tell me it was unable to connect.
I have tried resetting both my router and my adapter, completely uninstalling and reinstalling everything to do with my adapter twice, and have been scouring anything related for hours upon end with no avail. Is it possible that the adapter and router aren't communicating simply because they're different brands? I can't seem to figure anything out, and any help would be very much appreciated.