How do I turn back on my Wireless Router and Encrypt it?

OK for sometime now I've been using my neighbors internet connection, because mine is currently down for the reason being I reset my router. Now I need to know how to turn it on. I'm not very sure if I turned it on or not. All I really know is that a green light flashes, for those who have a Netgear Router there is a little check that usually flashes green when the internet connection is good. For some odd ball reason my check is not flashing green. And I'm wondering how I make it flash green again.

I've tried encrypting my router, but it my computer won't detect any signal whatsoever. From past experience it should detect the signal, but not the server. Mine is not doing either.

So could someone please help? I'm basically trying to figure out if my router is turned off(even though I tried to turn it on) or if I need to re-encrypt my router to my Computer(which I can't do for some reason).

Sorry if this is too confusing to understand. But I really need MY Wireless connection back. I only get 1 bar out of 5 signal from my neighbors, and the internet connection is unbearably slow as well as downloading content of the internet.

Sometimes the frequency level is too high, and needs to be lowered... dunno how to do it, though, a guy who was here the other day said the router's frequency was too high for a few things like a palmtop or the Wii

Originally Posted by Carge

Sometimes the frequency level is too high, and needs to be lowered... dunno how to do it, though, a guy who was here the other day said the router's frequency was too high for a few things like a palmtop or the Wii

No it can't be that. My frequency has been the same before and it has worked in the past.