what makes a wireless connection go into the "limited connectivity" mode?

[DynamicSound]

N wireless routers should be backwards compatible to A/B/G devices.

They should be, however not all brand laptops work perfectly with it. They will link and work for a short time, then drop the connection. This will continue to happen everytime you reconnect. My new Toshiba would do this until I used a N adaptor. It worked fine all other routers...just not the N. I then tried it on another friends N router and it did the same. However, a friend used their Dell and it had no problem.

Collins bought my N adaptor so we will see if it is the fix.

[collins]

They should be, however not all brand laptops work perfectly with it. They will link and work for a short time, then drop the connection. This will continue to happen everytime you reconnect. My new Toshiba would do this until I used a N adaptor. It worked fine all other routers...just not the N. I then tried it on another friends N router and it did the same. However, a friend used their Dell and it had no problem.

Collins bought my N adaptor so we will see if it is the fix.

well tonight is the first time i've had a problem since i bought the adapter... its like my computer said "JUST KIDDIN" and didnt give me an issue for a while. so tonight, it goes in to the limited connectivity mode, so i plug the adapter in, install the driver, and get it connected... however, while it connects to my router, it still wouldnt let me online... what am i missing?