New to imac.....cant connect to to my home wifi

just start using imac but when set up the wifi network, it cannot show my home's wifi on the list, even when i type the network name and password, it also showed no network found. But the imac can search my iphone hotspot and connected it.
While my home wifi is able to connect to ipone, ipod, psp and other PCs, will it be any problem with my imac, or will i need to set up anythings for this Or is my router not support imac?

ecila1031 wrote:
i am using 10.7.2 (lion) I juz received my imac yesterday...my wifi router is next to my room.. after trying for couple hours, it finally connected to my home wifi....so is it something related to the hardware of imac or juz the software problem?
It is tough to tell, it most likely is software related but impossible to tell. If you live in an suburban area that that has lots of wi-fi networks in the area there could be a channel conflict, it could be the DNS settings your ISP uses, or it can be the modem and/router are old and out of date, and the list goes on.
If it is still currently connected then leave it alone, if the problem comes back I already provided one solution in my first post. If those don't work then post back and we can try other items.

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