home network trouble

[Daemas]

I'm currently having trouble with my home network. I had to power cycle my network and now my secondary desktop will not connect wirelessly.

I have a 5? year old WRT54G. I have it set to broadcast SSID, I have the secondary computer's MAC address on the router's white list. I made sure I typed in the password correctly, etc etc. In fact, I haven't changed any settings from my last good configuration. But it cannot see the network it's trying to connect to. I'm unsure of what the problem is. I kinda feel that it can't see the network because it's too far from the router, but I had 4 bars before the power cycle.

You think my router is hosed? what else could it be?

If it is, what should I get? I have a gaming desktop that's wired, a wired PS3, a wired printer, and a wireless desktop about 50 ft away, through 2 walls. I don't necessarily have any need for a NAS, or DD-WRT, or anything like that at this time, but if I can get those features for cheap, why the hell not. I'd hate to buy the router and then 6 months later need to buy a new one for some feature that my router didn't have.

thanks in advance

 

[Arcanedeath]

If power cyceling the WRT54G did not fix the issue you could try reseting it to factory defaults and reconfiguring it from scratch just to rule out a settings issue.

If that doesn't work you could try 3rd party firmware if yours is a version 4 or older (i.e. broadcom based)

 

[mammador]

As said, reboot the router.

Did anything occur on the machine to make it malfunction? Was NIC on the machine working well up until you re-configured the wifi?