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- Posted on Jan 15, 2011
Re: UNABLE TO CONNECT MY KINDLE 3 WIFI/3G TO MY NETGEAR...
Four reasons come to mind that may prevent you from connecting:
- Wi-Fi Passwords are case sensitive. Please check again
if you entered the password with proper casing and you did not put any
extra white space in front or behind. I know, this sounds annoying, but
it is really the most common cause for connection problems.
- Give your network a unique SSID. This is the network
name that shows up in the list of detected networks. Default names like NETGEAR can be troublesome if a neighbor one block down the street
happens to have a router from the same company.
- Some routers have a MAC address filter as a security
measure, limiting service to devices specifically whitelisted. If your
router is set up for this, add your Kindle's MAC address to the list of
permitted devices. You can check the MAC of your Kindle from its
settings page (press HOME, MENU, select SETTINGS, see paragraph
headlined "Device Info".
- There are twelve different standards for Wi-Fi
transmission collected under the hood IEEE 802.11. The four most
dominant transmission modes are called a, b, g and n. They differ in
radio frequency, modulation method and data rate. Kindle supports the
two standards IEEE 802.11 b and g only, which is not really a problem
because all wireless routers I ever encountered support one or both of
these, too. However, the WPN824v3 belongs to the "RangeMax" series of NetGear routers. In combination with certain Netgear wireless network adapters, it can be set up to use a proprietary modification of 802.11g exclusively (108Mb/sec, doubling the 54Mb/sec for 802.11g),
not allowing for standard b or g connections. Make sure it allows standard b+g connections, too.
Please add a comment to this solution if
one of these items resolved your problem. If you suffered from a
different issue I did not think of, it would be nice to drop me a line,
too. Other people will benefit from any experience you made.
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