{"id":177,"date":"2017-06-06T18:06:09","date_gmt":"2017-06-06T18:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/t3x.co.uk\/?p=177"},"modified":"2017-07-27T09:30:34","modified_gmt":"2017-07-27T09:30:34","slug":"ssid-cant-be-seen-by-some-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/t3x.co.uk\/?p=177","title":{"rendered":"SSID can’t be seen by some devices"},"content":{"rendered":"

I recently had a laptop with Windows 10<\/strong> that had been working on WiFi but after rebooting the router it\u00a0would no longer show the\u00a0Service Set Identifier (SSID) in the list of available WiFi networks. \u00a0Other devices could see it, all except the laptop and the laptop could see some other WiFi networks in the vicinity.<\/p>\n

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WiFi has been problematic with some WiFi adapters since Windows 8<\/strong> and I have seen similar problems previously, mostly related to the channel that WiFi is broadcasting on. \u00a0Some adapters, with some drivers seem to be unable to scan the higher channels, typically above 12 seems to be the problem. \u00a0Some routers are configured to set the channel automatically which means it can change when you reboot. \u00a0First thing is to see if you can change things in your adapter properties<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Choose Configure<\/strong> and look for settings that might fix the problem. \u00a0Also updating the driver may provide a solution.<\/p>\n

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In my case this did not fix the problem. \u00a0However, if you have access to the router you can change the channel that it broadcasts on.<\/p>\n

First you should find out what channels you can see and which channels are in use near to your location. \u00a0I use Xirrus WiFi Inspector which you can get by clicking\u00a0here<\/a>: \u00a0Others are available.<\/p>\n

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In the example above you can see which channels are busy. Now log on to your router to change the channel. \u00a0The interface you see will depend on the make of the router as will the address that you need to use in the browser. \u00a0Normally it will be the same as your default gateway so you can use ipconfig<\/strong>\u00a0from a command prompt<\/strong> to find it. \u00a0Check the router documentation for more details.<\/p>\n

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As you can see the router channel was set to auto allowing the router to choose a channel when rebooted. \u00a0In my case it had selected 12 which the laptop adapter could not detect. \u00a0Once changed (to 9 in my case) the SSID was visible. \u00a0If you don’t have the details to access the router settings you could try rebooting a few time to see if it changes to a channel your adapter can cope with. \u00a0Otherwise, you need a driver that can scan the higher channels or a USB WiFi adapter that can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I recently had a laptop with Windows 10 that had been working on WiFi but after rebooting the router it\u00a0would no longer show the\u00a0Service Set Identifier (SSID) in the list of available WiFi networks. \u00a0Other devices could see it, all except the laptop and the laptop could see some other WiFi networks in the vicinity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[23,5],"tags":[25,24,17],"class_list":["post-177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware","category-microsoft","tag-ssid","tag-wifi","tag-windows"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3XT9c-2R","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/t3x.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/t3x.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/t3x.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/t3x.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/t3x.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/t3x.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":218,"href":"https:\/\/t3x.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions\/218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/t3x.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/t3x.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/t3x.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}