Airport not detecting the network but my cellphone detects

hi...
i am using 13 inch macbook pro.....yesterday night my wifi network was working fine,but suddenly the airport has stopped detecting the network......plz suggest me the solution.....thanx a lot...
Regards,
Sorabh
Message was edited by: sorabh arora

Hello,
I see that you posting from India. I had this same problem a few months ago when I was out of the US. The iPhone can recognize wireless networks that are broadcasting on a broader range of wireless channels than my MacBook Pro. I was in France and my iPhone would connect to the wireless network but my MacBook would not even detect it. This was because the wireless network was broadcasting on channel 13. This is a normal channel in many parts of the world but we are not allowed to use this channel in the US. My MacBook can only connect to networks broadcasting on channels 1 through 11 on a 2.4GHz network. Try checking your router to see what channel it is broadcasting on and change it to a channel between 1 and 11 and see if that helps
Regards,
Sean

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