Old Wireless Network Found

First of all, I am a newbie in regard to wireless networks, so please be patient with me!!!
Here's my problem:
About a year ago, I set up a wireless network on my computer. It worked great. My son was able to access the Internet with his laptop just fine anywhere in our home.
Recently my son disconnected the wireless router and used it at a party with his friends. (They connected a couple of XBox gaming systems together to play XBox Live).
After the party, my son reconnected the router to the computer, but he was not able to get his laptop to connect to the Internet. In our troubleshooting, we ended up recreating a wireless network on my PC. My son's laptop finds the wireless signal from my PC, but it finds an old network name -- not the new network name that we recently created.
We are at a loss on what to do next. Can anyway give us some direction?
Thank you very much!
~Randy Seys
Mankato, MN

I think that with some routers you can have multiple networks running at the same time. If you reset the router it will restore to factory defaults and delete all metworks running. From there if you just recreate a network again it will only have the 1 network on it.

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