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Renamed the SSID for a router and messed up the wireless connectivity in the process

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Ragnarb

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So I renamed the SSID for a Linksys WRT54GL router and it changed immediately. No problems there. However, now when I connect to the router, it accepts the same password at it did before, and tells me that I'm connected, the only problem is; it doesn't work. Either the browsing experience is painfully slow or I get a DNS lookup failure. The only thing I changed was the SSID. Does anyone here have any idea what I can do about this?

The instructions I read specified that no restart was required, and I'm not able to restart the router at the moment as a co-worker is working on it. Wired connections still work fine.
 
I may have spoken too fast, it's been working great for the past 20 minutes but the speed has now gone down to the point where I can barely browse.
 
I believe I have "solved" the issue. First, what I was trying to accomplish was to enable people to roam around the office, and thus I renamed the SSID of the router to be the same as the SSID on the other side of the office. I believe I may have been connecting to the other router (hence the poor internet connection). And renaming it back seems to have solved it. Does anyone have any tips on how it would be best to enable roaming with 2 routers from 2 separate manufacturers?
 
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