@Carl Excellent! Thanks for doing all that you're doing :D

@Carl yup..that's what I did for each of the attempts..I 'forgot' the network on the phone before tryin the next setting in the router..and the passwords were entered correctly each time

@Carl Well..I tried turning off the encryption and WPA/WPA2 so the router was 'open' and my phone connected right away with no issues. I turned on WPA/WPA2-PSK and can't connect...Turned on...

@Carl I'll try those again at some time later just to be sure..I forgot to check 'none' for security to see if the issue is still there..my guess is it *shouldn't* work either but I'll find out in a...

@Carl Hiya I've tried all the encryption methods available in the router with the same result

@Carl okie dokie thanks It's been difficult to only go so far when using my computer as a hotspot..Fixing the weird quirk in the router so my phones can connect again would be delightful..thanks again