Getting my partners MacBook onto our wireless home LAN using WPNT834

I don't have much experience with Macs but know a bit about basic networking, well enough to set up a home network based on a cable modem, cable router with both wired and wireless PC clients.
My partner has a MacBook which used to be on the wireless network. I had to reset our router and start again. I can get all the PC's back onto the LAN, but not the MacBook.
We are trying to use AirPort.
Airport is on, but not finding our wireless network. Picking up a neighbours though!
Should pick up ours because this PC laptop I'm typing on is picking it up, and its right beside the MacBook. Both are beside the wireless router!
in the router settings under "Wireless Advanced"
Enable SSID Broadcast = YES
I'm thinking it must be some setting on the router is stopping the mac picking up the network's presence. Now we are right beside the wireless router and its still not picking it up!
Under Wireless settings I have :
Region: Europe (choices are Europe, Asia, Australia)
Channel: 01 (choices are auto, 01, 02 etc to 13)
Mode: g and b (choices are "g and b", "g only", up to 126Mbps, up to 240Mbps)
I tried changing channel from the defaults of auto to 01
and mode from default of 240Mbps to "g and b"
still no joy
seem to remember channels had something to do with it, last time we had this working....
but could be wrong

A few days ago to get the rest of the network going I'd reset the factory defaults on the router. Then I'd upgraded the firmware on the router from 1.041 (i think) to 1.051.
I saw something on the apple forum abut a guy with this router, needing to go back some versions on his firmware to be able to see his wireless network, so I went back to 1.041
Hey presto, now we can see the wireless network!
Joining it is now easy because by now I've disabled security to make it as simple as possible.
I looks like this is why it used to work before I reset & upgraded the router.
Message was edited by: zorba11

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