Why can't I access the internet and everyone in my house can?

My laptop was getting signal since I moved into this house in the Summer. I went home to LA for a few days and when I came back one of my housemates got a new modem. Everyone else's laptop work(including 3 other mac book owners) fine but I cannot get access to the internet. What do I need to change or do? Im not so great with technology but I tried different options, she took off and on the password from the wireless internet and nothing. As well, I noticed 2 other icons at the top of my laptop next to the battery life icon..One looks rectangular and black..and the other one looks like this <.....>. Weeks have passed by and I'm just getting tired of having only access to the internet in school.
Thanks! Hope someone can help me because I need it for school.

personalities_233 wrote:
Hello, thanks for the help but it did not work. I wonder what the problem is? =/
What did not work?
Did the airport router you are trying to connect to not show up under the airport symbol in the menubar?
If it did show up, did it have any symbols by it like a padlock for instance?
In other words, exactly what did you do and exactly what did you experience?
If your Mac does not even list the router in the menubar under the icon/symbol (triangle with curved lines, supposed to appear to be radio waves radiating) then the router may have a setting set that does not allow it to be seen except to computers with MAC addresses that have been entered into it as allowable. If this is the case then your MAC address will have to be entered into the router's list. MAC stands for Media Access Control. "Mac" is the abbreviation for Macintosh.
The fact that you mention you have two new symbols in your menu bar suggests that someone has been playing with the computer and making changes that you are unaware of. If this is the case then there are many possibilities for problems.
The fact is, a Mac fresh out of the box will see any router within range and connect to it unless the router requires a password or the router has Access Control set such that it cannot be seen by a computer that does not exist in its 'OK' list. Since yours works at school, that rules out a hardware or problem or most software problems with your computer. But networking is complicated enough that you have to be quite specific when you try to tell others what you have tried and what results you got.

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