Fixing wireless "hidden network" problem on Windows 7

Hello New to site but I am having same problem with windows 7 and some vista comps as well same as post above for years my cheap Dlink router ran a few wireless clients at same time np, But I seem to see that the problem more so is with the wireless N . Either the standard working with 7 or vista ? I have no Idea Yet  But I am a Comp TIa certified A+ and Network+ Tech and am now geting flooded with work on this and yes I love the work But something Fishy is going on with vista/win 7 / Wireless N  I feel as any vista laptop or dektop with wireless B/G connects to my 30 dollar router yet I hook same comps to a WiFI and wireless 100 dollar router and cant connect ?? as for changing the wireless security , why should you have to ? If you want to run WEP Win 7/Vista/XP/ 2000/98/95 should all accept that but seems to stop at vista/7  and higher security degrades wireless network traffic and as for any new machine they all have Wireless N  Hmmm. any info on this though I am glad to hear I am Doin some Tests tonight finally have a boxed win 7 comp to totally have some fun seeing waht i can make go wrong hehe Thanks for reading

I have a different router (a 2Wire), but my solution was found in the same place, the wireless settings page. To find this, you need to pull up your network/broadband page. It will probably only work on another computer in your house. It may be different for you since you have a different router but to get to mine I just opened up the internet browser, and in the address bar I typed "Homeportal".  This brought up the broadband/network page for my modem/router & my network. The wireless settings page was found on the Network page. Hope that helps. You may need to call whoever makes your router to find out how to access your settings. Sorry, I have no idea if it is different for different routers or not.

I have a Netgear WGR614 v7 and use WPA2-PSK [AES] for security. On the 'Wireless Settings' page, I had this enabled - Wireless Card Access List.

I turned it off, and was able to connect to my wireless network. Hope this helps.

Cheers!

Thank you for posting this. I found my solution while I went in to my settings of the wireless network to try doing your suggestion you posted here about turning off the wireless card access list. I didn't end up turning off the access list but I see now how that would solve it too. What I ended up doing that worked was I went in to the network settings of the router, and I saw something called MAC settings. Someone else in another post said something about a MAC address, and I realized that was something I never even looked at, or the wireless settings either. So I clicked on the MAC settings button, and what I saw was a list of the other computers in my home all on the network. My laptop running Windows 7 was not on the list. I had to look up how to find the computer's MAC address (very easy!), and I used the add MAC address feature to add my laptop. Then I tried to connect on the laptop to the network... and it worked!!!!!! So that simple thing solved my 3 month long issue of not being able to get online at my house with my laptop! Such a relief!  I hope this makes sense what I did so hopefully someone else here can duplicate it and have success as well.

Gents,

I had exactly the same problem tonight, spent 3 hours trying every possible scenario except the most obvious. In my situation I accidently reset my router and somewhere amongst all the crazyness my win7 laptop could not see it after the router restarted. My Xp laptop saw it perfectly, and I could see other Wifi networks on my Win7 machine, except mine. Crazy!!!

Well my solution was to manually configure the wifi network, by Manage Wireless Networks > Add > Manually create a network Profile > blah blah blah. For Ecryption Type make sure you try both TKIP and AES, because once I tried that it saw it again. Now that's pretty lame, but thats the way it works. Don't want to get into the whys or hows, it just worked.

Give it a go perhaps.