Need help- wireless router/ pcmci card?/encryption

16 years ago

Hi,

I did several searches to see if I could find the answer to this question. I've gotten the answer here before and I thought I'd saved it, but now can't find it.

Last year I gave daughter and son-in-law a wireless router. They've got a very old pc with XP home and an old laptop with xp home. Laptop does not have built in wireless, but does have a PC/MCI slot. Router came with a PC/MCI card. I got it set up for them, with encryption set up, based on advice from here. It involved entering a port id(?) in the browser address bar - numbers like 800.1.1.0, or something like that, and then entering the encryption numbers on first the PC, and then the laptop. At least I think that's what I did. Memory isn't so good. Daughter's PC/MCI card died (no internet access and no light on the card any longer). I had another card here at the house, so I put the card in her laptop. I did this here at my house, where I have no encryption (far away from other houses, road, etc) set up, and her laptop could access the internet using my connection. But at her house she can't, because of the set up encryption.

So my question is - How do I access the encryption on the PC to either get the current key, or to change it, and then how do I set up the laptop?

Sorry for the long spiel before the question.

Thanks in advance for any help. I'm supposed to go over there tomorrow to help her.

Alice

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mikie_gw
16 years ago
usually...
http://192.168.0.1/
or
Http://192.168.1.1/

some of the routers use different
if those whont werk, tell us the make of the router and someone probably will give you the access ip

that is unless you changed the router ip to a bit odd so your neighbor doesnt just stumble in with a popular ip.
thetews
Original Author
16 years ago
Thanks Mikie,

It's either a Linksys or a D-Link, and I don't know how to change the router IP so hopefully one of those two will work.

Thanks again,
Alice
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mikie_gw
16 years ago
Cool.
That usually the easiest place to find the encryption key(s)

/Hope you remember the router login and password if you set one âº
alicet
16 years ago
Hi Mikie,

I sure hope you or someone else knowledgable is around.

I'm at my daughter's house. I entered the address (numbers from above) in the address bar on the PC and went through the set up and then re-booted the PC and re-brought up the browser.

On the laptop, when I click on the wirless connections icon on the tool bar it shoulw the network is available. It also shows some others. It says the network requires a network key (WEP) and I entered the same one as I'd entered on the PC, and click connect and the box disappears. But when I bring up internet explorer, it says no connection.

No matter what I do, and I've tried a bunch of things, I still get no connection on the browser on the PC.

Please Help!!

Thanks,
Alice
mikie_gw
16 years ago
I'm awfully tired. Its hard for me to follow what you are saying.
We have a Router.
We have a Laptop PC.
We have a Desktop PC

And the Laptop WEP key matches the Router WEP security key ? Yet the laptop browser does not work?
``Could be lots of things.
Did you try a ping or traceRt from a CMD window to see if the Laptop is capable of getting out to the internet ?
traceRt www.yahoo.com
is my favorite check.

IE Tools / Internet Options / Connections / Lan Settings(button) Try with all those items in the Lan Settings window unchecked.

And the Desktop PC is also a wireless connection to the Router? and that desktop browser does work ?

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