Not sure if this is hardware or software but anyway. So my gf has a compaq v6000 laptop and the wireless access is very iffy. sometimes it will connect with ease, others its like pulling teeth out of a rhino in heat...on top of a medicine ball...using a toothpick. We just moved to a new house and set up a new wireless network. my wireless works fine, out other roommates wireless works fine but hers does nothing. the light is on, device manager says its working properly but it doesnt even give us an option of what network we want to connect to(as there are about 5 in the general area that we could connect). there is no program to choose a network and the windows one is not activated for some reason and wont activate because there is some mystery application blocking it.