Re: Unable to connect to wireless network

anonymous wrote:
OP here.

I'm already using WinXP with SP3. I don't want WPA, I just want WEP running on this one computer so that I can connect wirelessly. The main problem is that I'm connecting internally instead of through the internet.

You certainly have communication problems, not the least of which is your imprecise usage of terminology.

It seems as if you have a wireless router that initially was configured to use WEP encryption. Both computer 1 and computer 2 could successfully connect to the router (and thus to the Internet) wirelessly.

You then reconfigured the router to use WPA encryption and attempted to connect to it with computer 1. This didn't work (what happened?). You didn't mess with computer 2.

You then reconfigured the router to use WEP encryption (presumably using the same key that you had used at first). Computer 2 can now successfully connect but computer 1 can't.

Is that where you are?

Please explain the following paragraph a bit more clearly:

I tried removing the wireless network which i used to connect to and adding it again, but it prompted me saying that the network password had to be 5 ascii characters. I set them to an arbitrary 5 characters, clicked 'ok', then went to reconfigure the connection again. This time, the network password showed to correct amount of characters that my connection used to have.

How did you remove it?
Where did you set the "arbitrary 5 characters"?
Where did you reconfigure the connection again, and how?

What do you mean by "connecting internally instead of through the internet"? This makes no sense to me.

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