Quote (mamllee @ Sep 23 2010 04:33pm)
can one of you tech-savy brothas help me out with a connection problem?
earlier today my mom accidentally shut off one of our power. circuits (the one the router/modem is connected to). it's turned back on and the router/modem have the right lights lit up, but the wireless network isn't showing up for my laptop or my moms. But I can connec to it on my itouch and on my Mac desktop

and yes I've checked all the cables/unplugged and deployed in the modem/router
this usually happens to me when the router have been shut down for a while.
i fixed it by restarting my router a few times and just wait. If i understand the situation right you should have connection to the router but not to the internet.
Just refresh the connection in the "network center" on the computer.
The problem you are having is that the router is trying to get a IP address and it usually takes a while. Or sometimes it does.