On Aug 28, 2005, at 3:27 PM, Samantha Cornell wrote: > Thanks to everyone for the pointers. I will walk him through some > things on his next stop. > > To answer some questions... > > 1) Yes, he has the same results with Safari, Explorer, and Firefox. > 2) Yes, I had his set it to Automatic > 3) No, he has not done it before, this is a first. > > Cross your fingers! > > Thanks! > > Samantha My dad recently purchased DSL service from Verizon with their wireless router. I am use to my iBook automatically connecting to open networks. But at my dad's house it wasn't happening. I wasn't able to connect to the network. Until I selected it from the Airport menu item. Then I was happily surfing on the net.