Ready to throw laptop out the windo...PLEASE help.

My husband and I have 2 desktops and one laptop all conencted to a Linksys Wireless ROuter. We have it set up so all 3 computers "see" each other and can access data from one to the other.

All I did was shut my laptop off for lunch. I came back an hour later, botted it up and cannot connect to the internet. Sometimes time the error message is that I am connected to the access point, but cannot conenct to the internet, other times it says I cannot connect to the access point.

I will say that we had this same issue before with the laptop and all I had to do was go in and input the passphrase which automatically brings up the WEP key number (I think that's what it's called...I apologize if it is wrong). I did that over and over and over again today and it's just not working! I completely turned the router off, waited a few minutes, turned it back on and it didn't help. I pulled the USB cable out of the laptop, put it back it, didn't help. I seem to have run out of ideas here.

We work from home and I need to get connected to my laptop in order to access my workfiles that are being sent from another state! Anyone have any suggestions (other than never shut the stupid thing off again?! LOL)

Many thanks in advance,
Tracy

Using a passphrase for WEP isn't the best idea. You might want to change it to a hex code you can easily remember. Merge some numbers together you can easily remember. Maybe birthdays or dates of importance until you can fill the 64 or 128 bit encryption.