Dell Inspiron 1564 won't detect a particular network

Hi Magic1810,

Welcome to the Community,

Is that a home network? If you have the network information such as SSID,Security  Key, Encryption Type,you can try to manually add the wireless network.

To manually add a Wireless network onto your Windows, please try the following steps:

1. Click Start – Control Panel

2. Click “View network status and tasks” (in classic view double-click Network and Sharing Center )

3.  From Network and Sharing Center left pane, click “Manage wireless Networks”

4. Click Add and then “Manually create Network profile“.

5. Enter the Network name (SSID) then the security type (ex: WEP,WPA,WPA-2)

6. Select Encryption Type (ex: AES or PSK)

7. Enter the Security Key/Passphrase. Optionally check the “Display characters” to display the security key that you type in.

8. To connect automatically to this network, check the box for “Start this connection automatically”

9. The next option is the key here. Check the box for “Connect if the network is not broadcasting” to connect to a network which doesn’t broadcast, in otherwords, you don’t find this network in the available network list.

10. In the next screen, select “Change connection settings” and choose “Connect automatically when network is in range”

Hope this helps,

Thank You

Roshan.