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Old 09-23-2025, 12:21 PM
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Originally Posted by villagetinker View Post
Did this older laptop ever see your network? Is it possible that your current Wi-Fi is only 5 Ghz and the older computer is 2.4Ghz? If your SSID is hidden you should see 1 or more network connections without an attached name, it would be trial and error to figure out which one is yours, but I would start with the best signal one. If you have a spare USB port TP Link makes a very nice wireless adapter, that I have been using for several years as the wireless adapter in my laptop died.
I have a USB TP Link on another old computer which I tried on the converted laptop and the TP Link is not compatible with Window 11
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