Samsung Wireless Dongle WIS09ABGN & Airport Extreme N not connecting

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Samsung Wireless Dongle WIS09ABGN & Airport Extreme N not connecting

I just replaced my Net gear router because it was stopping my movies when I streamed from Netflix on my mac. It would however work streaming to my Samsung Blue ray player. So, I went and bought an Airport Extreme to fix this problem. It did fix that problem, however now the blue ray player will not connect to my wireless network. I will try to connect and it will take about 3 min. to tell me that it cannot connect.
1. my network is WPA
2. The SSID is all lowercases/ no spaces/no caps/no numbers/no punctuation.

The dongle has worked before, so I know that end is ok. The problem has to lie with the dongle and the Airport connecting to each other.

WHY CAN THEY NOT CONNECT ??

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iMac Intel Core Duo, Mac OS X (10.6.2), 2 Gig ram/ 500gig/ Vram256 /20" screen

Posted on Mar 14, 2010 4:24 PM

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Kris Barger Author

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Mar 14, 2010 7:17 PM in response to Kris Barger

I figured it out!!! WPA personal 2 is the security that AE uses. I was wrongly choosing WEP in the samsung setup. Also, found out the SSID has to be 8 characters or less, cant contain anything but letters and no spaces. The password has to lower cases no spaces.

That got mine to work.

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Mar 15, 2010 12:45 PM in response to Kris Barger

I had similar situation, my Samsung TV would connect but not my Samsung Blu-ray player. Both Samsung devices use same usb wireless dongle. I got a software update for the blue-ray from Samsung, (loaded from memory stick) then it connected just fine.

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