Re: Renaming a wireless connection

Lem wrote:
<snip>:
||| Lem wrote:
|||| RoseW wrote:
||||
|||| Generally, the best way to configure a wireless router is by
|||| connecting to it with an Ethernet cable. Once you have everything
|||| setup the way you want, you disconnect the cable and use the
|||| wireless.
||||
|||| Most home routers, including Belkin routers, have an address like
|||| 192.168.1.1 or 192.168.0.1. The correct address will be in the
|||| manual. With your laptop connected to the router by Ethernet cable
|||| (plugged into one of the 4 LAN jacks, and NOT into the WAN or
|||| Internet jack), open a browser (such as IE or Firefox), and you'll
|||| be able to log in to your router's configuration utility and make
|||| the necessary changes.
||||
|||| All home routers have an easy way to reset to factory defaults
|||| (usually a small button on the back somewhere). So don't worry
|||| about messing up the settings. If things get so bad that you
|||| can't get back to the router to change something, you can always
|||| reset. On the other hand, most routers also have a way to save
|||| the configuration to your computer. Once you have things set the
|||| way you want them, you might consider doing that.
|||
||| I got the laptop SSID name changed but continuing with the security
||| settings created an issue. The message that a network key was
||| required came up and I'm not clear what is to be entered. I tried
||| some combinations within the 5 to 13 characters in the Windows
||| Xpsp2 dialogue box but it wasn't successful so I disabled the
||| security entries in the router setup. Restarted the laptop and it
||| would connect with security disabled in the laptop wireless account
||| properties . I rarely use the laptop for the internet and its rarely
||| turned on so I can investigate what is required for this 'network
||| key' before attempting to turn the security back on again.
||| Rose
||
|| I have been searching with Google and I did all the steps when it
|| came to enter the Network key so I must have typed incorrectly the
|| 26letter/number series produced in the Belkin security Wep section.
|| I'll try again tomorrow. Rose
||
||
|
| Perhaps you've got it sorted by now. Perhaps not.
|
| The "network key" is something you first enter in the router's
| "security section" (via your browser). If you do this while you are
| connected to the router with an Ethernet cable, you won't be
| disconnected from the router as soon as you "save" or "apply" the
| setting. You then enter the same key in the WinXP dialog box on your
| laptop.
|
| You really should use WPA2 (or at least WPA) rather then WEP,
| depending on what your laptop can do. WEP encryption is rather
| easily cracked these days.

Yes, I entered the passphrase in the router's security section and it
created the 26 key combination. I was connected to the router with an
ethernet cable...BUT...the laptop was disconnected anyway. It seems to have
gone totally to the wireless and ignores the cable. I could still deal with
the configuration via the cabled desktop.
Its the entry of the Network Key in the Windows Xppro dialoque. Its almost
like there isn't enough room for the total combination and I'm not leaving
spaces between the groups of that total 26 numbers/letters.
I wondered if I should uncheck the line that says 'Let Windows manage the
network' ..or words to that effect.

The laptop is not a major player. Its purpose is to go on extended
camera/photography excursions and I store images on the laptop. If I make a
cd or dvd presentation I'll put it in the laptop to see if the disc works in
another setting. Its an older IBM and with an external harddrive it serves
its purpose. I keep it updated so an internet connection makes that
convenient. Oddly enough it received the July update for the Net framework
without a quiver and my NEW desktop had to have Net 2 uninstalled and
reinstalled <lol!>

I was up to all hours of the early morning trying to figure out what I was
doing wrong when I got to the step of entering the Network Key in the
Windows Xppro so I haven't got that "sorted out" <grin> I'm building up
enthusiasm to go back at it again.
Rose


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