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Re: Windows laptop can't find T-Mobile Home Internet network... but all other devices can
I switched to T-mobile over a year ago and I’vehad to keep our old provider allllll this time, because 1 desktop PCin the house couldn’t find the gateway. All total, Iprobably spent a solid week’s worth of time reading theseforums, doing all the stuff posted here, havingsupport walking me through fixes (that failed), and even reading forums and support from other companies, whose users were having the same issue with those products. I even tried skipping the wireless and plugging it into the Ethernet port onthe gateway, since it’s a desktop PC and not going anywhere, but those hopes were crushed when I discoveredit’s in the one place in my house where the gateway couldn’t get asignal. Last week, I was putting in a grocery order in at Walmart, not even close to thinking abouttechnical annoyances, and I had a brain storm. I added a USB wifi adapterto the grocery order. When it arrived, I plugged it in, ran the setup, and BOOM! the T-mobile gateway appeared on the list. A whopping $9.99 and 5 minutes solved the problem. The desktop PC is online, its user is happy as a pig in slop, and I can FINALLY kick my old provider to the curb. Sometimes it pays to think outside the box, and inside the Walmart bag. 😄7Views1like0Comments