What I find even more perplexing is that my brother has a signal on the second floor of the house while the router is located in the basement, although he complains bitterly about the signal everywhere in the house.
I've set up my router to not use any encryption and be completely open and broadcasting its SSID. I've altered the channels I use on the router and my laptop to no benefit. Wireless access point is enabled on the router. I have my network listed in my preffered networks, and I have disabled all of my firewalls because I'm desperate. Running ipconfig brings up the message "Media disconnected."
I've really just got no clue whats going on, the router picks up my brother, but not me. I pick up my network at school and not this one...