Wep key

[shazzal]

Hello,
my daughter has just got a new laptop, we have a netgear wireless router and we do have a wep key but we must of copied it down wrong and the laptop wont accept it, can anyone tell me how can we find out the correct key?

 

[Saga Lout]

Go Start then Run in XP - Windows key plus R in Vista and Windows 7, then type in the following, including all the spaces:-

cmd /k ipconfig /all

then press Enter and from the black form that shows up, take a note of the numeric code beside the Default Gateway icon - something like 192.168.0.1.

Type exit to close the black form.

Open Internet Explorer and enter that code into the URL address bar as though it was a website. You're then at the login page to the router's settings utility and admin will usually be the login with either admin or password as the password but your router's instruction manual will help you there.

If you're in, seek out Wireless and then Security and take a note of the key. Sometimes it may be a passphrase, some a simple set of letters and others a hexadecimal code. You also may as well note which level of security it is - WEP, WPA or WPA/PSK 2 and then either AES or TKIP. Your computer will already know this but it's handy information to store. Note also that hexadecimal only contains numbers from zero to 9 and letters a to f so there's no confusion of I and O with 1 and 0.

Keep a note of that security key in My Documents and also outside the computer.

 

[geekapproved]

Hello,
my daughter has just got a new laptop, we have a netgear wireless router and we do have a wep key but we must of copied it down wrong and the laptop wont accept it, can anyone tell me how can we find out the correct key?

Call your ISP, they will set everything up for you over the phone.

 

[shazzal]

Thankyou everyone who made suggestions, she has it up and running now, she actually found the right one. THANKS again !!! Shazzal

 

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