so I tried assisting a friend set up their AT&T DSL wireless. Gateway/router was a Netgear 7750-something.
So I set up the router to a Vista desktop.
When the LAN and wireless was set up, my iPod Touch picked up the WiFi and so did my friends Android phone.
When we tried connecting the Toshiba laptop (on Win8) it would not connect.
We tried tethering to the Android phone, the laptop worked.
Back to the AT&T Wifi, it doesn't work.
I went thru the laptop network adapters, the drivers are all up to date.
Did I miss something simple? Like set LAN to public vs private?