wireless network question on S260

I got a Vaio S260 the week before last to take on business trips since I was getting tired of lugging my heavy and slow old Dell. Before I left I was able to connect to my home Netgear wireless router, it saw my network even though I was pretty sure that I had my router set not to broadcast my SSID. Now that I am back, my Vaio is not seeing my router. My SSID still shows up in the wireless network properties tab as a network that has been connected previously.

For those of you who are familiar with the application Netstumbler, it detects my router and shows the SSID and MAC address even though I have it set not to broadcast.

Any ideas on how Netstumbler sees it but my Vaio does not see it now?

Thanks,
Kirk

 

I finally got it to work but what I had to do and what happened really makes no sense. I turned on the SSID broadcast again so my S260 would see it, which it did, and I set it to automatic and also made sure that MAC address of the S260's Intel wireless device was correct in the list of connected devices on my routers set up screen.

When I rebooted my S260, it did not see my router so I rebooted again and it still didn't see it. I was getting frustrated so I took the S260 with me in the living room and after a few minutes, the "connected to my network" balloon popped up and I was on. I used it for awhile then rebooted and it came up again so I used it for awhile longer then turned it off and went out for awhile. When I came back and fired it up again, it picked up the router so I guess it is OK now. It was just really odd that it didn't pick it up for awhile at first and took about 5 minutes before it did when it finally started seeing it all the time.

Anyway, I am just happy that it is working now and hope it continues to work correctly with my router since I had no problems with the wireless access in the hotel I stayed at or in the airports on my most recent business trip.

Kirk