Preface: I don't have much experience in Networking so sorry if I present stupid questions or sound dumb in general. Also I posted a thread before this but it was never answered and no one was responding so I made it into a new question since it never got solved. I realize this may be frowned upon but I truly need this solved because my computer has been sitting useless for weeks now.
I just had a computer built and put in my own wireless adapter (TP-LINK TL-WDN4800 Dual Band Wireless N900 PCI Express Adapter to be extremely exact) and it worked just fine with my Belkin router. I move into my new apartment with a Linksys EA6300 as our community (me and my roommates are the only ones using it) router. Everyone else (including myself on my laptop) can get on the internet with no problems at all. My desktop however, will recognize both bands coming in but is being extremely stubborn.
There are three different things that have happened so far:
1. It will connect okay but the connection is very unstable and will disconnect whenever it seems to feel like it. When it does disconnect I'll usually have to wait ~20 minutes for the connection to come back on.
2. One band will prompt me for the security key, and I will type it in (I am 100% positive it is the right key as I have done it countless times) and it will keep telling me "Security Key Mismatch"
3. The other band will prompt me for the security key and I type it in but instead of doing the security key mismatch it will just plain tell me it was unable to connect.
I have tried resetting both my router and my adapter, completely uninstalling and reinstalling everything to do with my adapter twice, and have been scouring anything related for hours upon end with no avail. Is it possible that the adapter and router aren't communicating simply because they're different brands? I can't seem to figure anything out, and any help would be very much appreciated.
Also I know it's not that our internet is bogged down, there are 3-5 people on the internet at a time the majority of the time but I've had to deal with this problem before and had little issue with it.
I just had a computer built and put in my own wireless adapter (TP-LINK TL-WDN4800 Dual Band Wireless N900 PCI Express Adapter to be extremely exact) and it worked just fine with my Belkin router. I move into my new apartment with a Linksys EA6300 as our community (me and my roommates are the only ones using it) router. Everyone else (including myself on my laptop) can get on the internet with no problems at all. My desktop however, will recognize both bands coming in but is being extremely stubborn.
There are three different things that have happened so far:
1. It will connect okay but the connection is very unstable and will disconnect whenever it seems to feel like it. When it does disconnect I'll usually have to wait ~20 minutes for the connection to come back on.
2. One band will prompt me for the security key, and I will type it in (I am 100% positive it is the right key as I have done it countless times) and it will keep telling me "Security Key Mismatch"
3. The other band will prompt me for the security key and I type it in but instead of doing the security key mismatch it will just plain tell me it was unable to connect.
I have tried resetting both my router and my adapter, completely uninstalling and reinstalling everything to do with my adapter twice, and have been scouring anything related for hours upon end with no avail. Is it possible that the adapter and router aren't communicating simply because they're different brands? I can't seem to figure anything out, and any help would be very much appreciated.
Also I know it's not that our internet is bogged down, there are 3-5 people on the internet at a time the majority of the time but I've had to deal with this problem before and had little issue with it.