Moved my laptop and now I can't connect to the router

I'm a novice at this - but that didn't stop me from setting up a wireless network - it was very easy, everything went fine and was working great for months. I took the laptop out of the house and used it at another location. When I brought the laptop home again it asked for a password - which do I use the passphrase or Key 1? Should I expect this to happen everytime I mobilize the laptop? My router is WRT54G. Thanks!

Connect to your router with a cable and name your network different. "linksys" is the default network name of a Linksys wireless router. Anyone you buys a Linksys router and just plugs it without changing it ends up with it. Maybe another neighbor bought a Linksys router as well. Thus, always rename the network name to something unique so that you can be sure that you connect to your network and not to somebody else's. Because the problem is: when your computer searches for wireless networks it only checks the name of the network. It does not show whether there is only one access point with that name or several. It could be a roaming network where several access points must have the same name or it could be just accident like several people running routers with the default name. Therefore: connect to your router with a cable, open http://192.168.1.1/ and reconfigure the wireless network name (SSID) on the wireless tab to something else. Connect to that network...

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