I work wirelless at home with 2 desktops and 2 laptops but have connection problems with one desktop.
I can see the network but cannot get a connection or very difficult after trying 15 times or so.
mostly i get the message waiting for network
all my card are belkin and so is my router
can somebody help ?
ps if this is the wrong forum, please move

nobody ?

Emulate or copy from the desktop that has the connection working properly to the desktop that is not. Maybe it has a different operating system (mac - windows), set to different channel, some spyware maybe dragging it down, anti-spyware or anti-virus set too strict and acting as a barrier etc. Because you said it connects sometimes but with difficulty and numerous tries, I suggested the above. Make sure also that all the machines except the one physically connected to the Internet (server) if by "connection" you mean connecting to the internet, HAVE internet connection sharing disabled as they are not physically connected to the internet.

The desktop you are having difficulty with, that sees the connection but can't connect may be allowed / have access to two or three machines but not all, in this case, it will connect only if it has access.

The network name should be the same one for all, and as such YOU PROBABLY EVEN HAVE A DUPLICATE NETWORK SETUP, which means, it can connect to one desktop which it has access to, and don't for another as it does not have access or NOT SHARED.
The best connections in my view are between machines running the same OS, cards or at least from the same manufacturer and the same setup. Although win98 machine has no problem with win xp machine, the two OSs if no set up properly will cause connection conflicts and intermittance.

Difficult to have positive answer as all the setups, machines, OSs, Cards, Wi-Fi network set up, Software, Firewalls....all need to be looked at.

Hope you solve the issue and good luck!

al the machines have the xp pro operating system and work wireless (wirelless zero configuration disabled)
the antivirus on the pc is avg, the windows firewall is disabled (until problem is solved) wep and wpa is currently disabled al the machines work with a static ip (dhcp disabled)
connection sharing is also not active on al the machines (useless with a router)
i asume everything is configured fine (i don't see 2 networks, only 1)