[strick9]

I have a LAN with four computers connected, three wirelessly and one by ethernet. The router is a Linksys WRT54G v.5. A few weeks ago I had Linksys help me set up the WEP security for this network. Now I'm having trouble getting one of the computers, a desktop, to connect to the network. It says it's Acquiring Network Address but it usually doesn't. Sometimes it will connect after one reconnect and sometimes it takes more than 10. It quickly recognizes my network and it has a strong signal. It just won't connect. Linksys says if three of the computers connect correctly, there must be something wrong at the problem computer. Makes sense to me.

I've been using a Belkin wireless USB adapter, so I decided to buy an additional adapter. I bought and then returned three Linksys adapters. Two connected by USB and they wouldn't work. Linksys said they were defective. Then I bought an internal adapter that connected directly to the motherboard. I couldn't get it to work either although it did detect my network. Linksys support wasn't helpful because their people apparently don't speak English that I can understand. I'm now back to the Belkin and it's intermittent connections.

What to do? (- Before I take a hammer to the thing!)

Thank you.