OK, so I was at the Women's Center in the mean part of town until past eleven last night, setting up a Windows Vista computer I donated. The first matter of business was about three hours setting up QuickBooks, which had a corrupted database on our bookkeeper's previous computer. Once that was solved, I tried to get her connected to the Internet.
Our wireless network was set up by the boyfriend or brother or something of one of our college interns. It was an unsecured network, and I found out last week that the Outside World had access to our QuickBooks files, and just about everything else. So, I changed it to a secure network with a WEP key. All this went quite smoothly, since I've done it before at home. One computer with a USB wireless card and Windows XP and McAfee hooked in perfectly. The new computer has Windows Vista and a PCI wireless card I installed, and I had no problem getting it to connect to the wireless network. Trouble is, now that it's connected, I can't get Internet service thorugh the connection. There's an unsecure wireless network somewhere in the neighborhood and I can get Internet through that, but I think I'd rather connect to our own connection, dontyouthink?