[Raspador]

Thanks to both of you.

It probably is the device, since both my router and the hotspots can be accessed by others, including my desktop. Question of course is what is it in the device?

Neither of my d-links (only using one these days) can be set for just b; the choices are g and mixed. I'm not usiing MAC filtering.

The real problem is that this equipment as far as I know can't tell you why it isn't connecting.

dray: As far as I know it can't be provisioned - activated - using the 6.1 kitchen and the previous owner said it couldn't be done under the 6.0 either. Rather than play around whilst on the phone with customer service rep, I just went to 5 and it set up correctly, and didn't have to be activated again under 6.1.

I don't think that one should go with one's first thought unless subsequent thinking shows it makes sense. I've had many first thoughts that were idiotic.
And you can go around in circles easily that way.

In the absense of anything better to do I suppose I can reflash. Very time consuming but if it works then we know the hardware works. If it doesn't it really hasn't proved a thing, since the reflash won't change some of the radio settings and perhaps the wi-fi settings.