The E2500 can be set to connect only on N, or only in double-channel mode, or only at 5GHz. The X220 can handle all of these, but some devices are 2.4GHz or 150N only.
For what it is worth, I believe that the default login/password on the E2500 router is admin/admin (case sensitive). The owner might not have changed it. Go online and find a copy of Metageek inSSider (free) and run it on the X220. It will tell you all about the router's signal. -------------------------------------------------- From: "Andrew Webber" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2013 9:49 PM To: "ThinkPad List" <[email protected]> Subject: [Thinkpad] Thinkpad connects to WiFi, no other devices? I know this is a bit tenuous, but a friend rented a vacation house that came with WiFi. He powered up his X220, selected the owner's SSID, and entered the WPA key. Connected no problem. Meanwhile, we cannot connect Android (3 tried) nor an iPod (1 tried). In all those cases it fails authentication. Next time I visit I may take two more ThinkPads to test. It's just a simple Cisco E2500 router. I suggested he ask the homeowner for admin password, or for the guest password, but I'm curious and concerned. I'm 99% sure it's not MAC filtering (the obvious choice) because the homeowner isn't a techie and the friend said he just connected, they didn't do anything beforehand. I also tried disconnecting his ThinkPad from the net, in case they had a weird "1 address only" DHCP config, and I tried static IP with my phone (though expect I didn't have the DNS right, I figured it should still connect to the router and I wasn't worried about Internet Access at that point). Nothing worked. Is there anything else that might, or some uniqueness about ThinkPads or the X220 that would explain the ease of connection? Thanks! - - Andrew mailto:[email protected] _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
