Wireless Security & WRT160n

Hello, I just moved into a house with 6 other people and we're all using the WRT160n to share a dsl connection wirelessly (except for two people who are wired), and I can't enable wireless security without having issues. I've tried WEP, WPA, and WPA2 encryption; when I enable it, I can connect to, and see the network perfectly fine, but there isn't any internet connectivity. Again, I actually connect to the wireless network, but there is no internet access when I enable encryption. When security is disabled entirely, we have full internet connectivity. Does anyone have any advice? It's the same issue for everyone here, and it's lame because we think our neighbors are mooching off our connection. Really appreciate the help.

Try this settings ...
Click on Advanced Wireless
settings>>Change the Beacon Interval to 75 >>Change the Fragmentation
Threshold to 2304 Change the RTS Threshold to 2304 >>Click on "Save Settings"

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oook wrote:
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