Wireless network

I am trying to set up my new wireless router and adapter.

I am failing badly, Everything seems to have installed correctly but my
network key is not being recognised.

Help!!

kitchbabe wrote:
> I am trying to set up my new wireless router and adapter.
>
> I am failing badly, Everything seems to have installed correctly but my
> network key is not being recognised.
>
> Help!!

The first thing to try is to disable encryption in the router and the
adapter and see if you can connect. If you can connect without
encryption, this eliminates a variety of problems.

Now set up encryption. Do it first in the router, using a computer
connected to the router with an Ethernet cable to access the router's
configuration utility. Select WPA2-PSK or WPA-PSK. Write down the
passphrase.

Now set up the wireless adapter. How you do this will depend on whether
you are using the configuration utility supplied by the manufacturer of
the wireless adapter or Windows Wireless Zero Configuration. Note that
you should not have both configuration utilities active. See
http://www.ezlan.net/wzc.html

If you still have difficulty, post back with the make & model of both
the router and the adapter. Also state what version and service pack of
Windows XP is on your laptop.

--
Lem -- MS-MVP - Networking

To the moon and back with 2K words of RAM and 36K words of ROM.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Guidance_Computer
http://history.nasa.gov/afj/compessay.htm

"Lem" <lemp40@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> kitchbabe wrote:
>> I am trying to set up my new wireless router and adapter.
>>
>> I am failing badly, Everything seems to have installed correctly but my
>> network key is not being recognised.
>>
>> Help!!
>
> The first thing to try is to disable encryption in the router and the
> adapter and see if you can connect. If you can connect without
> encryption, this eliminates a variety of problems.
>
> Now set up encryption. Do it first in the router, using a computer
> connected to the router with an Ethernet cable to access the router's
> configuration utility. Select WPA2-PSK or WPA-PSK. Write down the
> passphrase.
>
> Now set up the wireless adapter. How you do this will depend on whether
> you are using the configuration utility supplied by the manufacturer of
> the wireless adapter or Windows Wireless Zero Configuration. Note that
> you should not have both configuration utilities active. See
> http://www.ezlan.net/wzc.html
>
> If you still have difficulty, post back with the make & model of both the
> router and the adapter. Also state what version and service pack of
> Windows XP is on your laptop.
>
> --
> Lem -- MS-MVP - Networking
>
> To the moon and back with 2K words of RAM and 36K words of ROM.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Guidance_Computer
> http://history.nasa.gov/afj/compessay.htm

And, it can be extremely difficult to enter the key correctly. You should
be able to get the router
to display the key; you will save lots of grief if you have what the router
wants in front of you.

Jim