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Old 03-08-2007
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Re: Laptop will not connect wirelessly
Yeah, I got mine from BT directly. Perhaps try the manual, box the router
came in, and so on?

"nicholas hall" wrote:

> Andrew did you get your roughter with your broadband service.
>
> The reason I am asking you this is because I do not have a WEP key on the
> bottom of my roughter and I got my roughter from PC world.
>
> NIK
>
> "Andrew M" <AndrewM@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:85F42241-0EC0-4DD1-8D53-7E13FCA3CD6D@microsoft.com...
> > Firstly, I had to turn the WIFI receiver on, which was done by pressing Fn
> > +
> > F2. On the bottom right hand side of the start menu tray, where the clock
> > is, I right clicked on the icon that typically appears for a network
> > connection (two small squares, that will have a red X or a picture of a
> > globe
> > on it)
> >
> >
> > I then clicked connect to a network. A list of local transmitters
> > appeared.
> > There were only two on mine, and I knew mine was the stronger signal.
> > Typically the network ID is your equipment's name plus a couple of
> > identifying digits. I double clicked that and typed in the wireless
> > access
> > key (WEP 128-bit security code) that would unlock the encryption for me.
> > This code will be on the bottom of your router. IT is about 13 characters
> > long, and includes numbers and letters.
> >
> > After that, the connection was made and all was okay. The connection
> > reconnects automatically when starting up again. My problem is most sites
> > work, but one of my favourite's won't appear when I ping it, and takes
> > about
> > 10 minutes to load just the main page. Thus, it is unuseable to read
> > articles etc. This is www.iii.co.uk I am talking about.
> >
> > Hope this is useful.
> >
> >
> > "nicholas hall" wrote:
> >
> >> Thanks for the reply Andrew.
> >>
> >> Here is a question for you. How did you set up the wireless connection?
> >>
> >> Any information would be gratefully accepted.
> >>
> >> NIK
> >>
> >> "Andrew M" <Andrew M@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> >> news:2698C22A-4329-4DD0-A772-6B2779ADC136@microsoft.com...
> >> >I have a similar BT Voyager router which works through LAN okay but on
> >> >WAN
> >> >it
> >> > is very slow, with some sites taking minutes to appear whereas others
> >> > like
> >> > the BBC run as normal. (www.iii.co.uk is one I want in particular, but
> >> > just
> >> > does not work viably using wireless).
> >> >
> >> > Signal strength and quality are both fine. I do not understand this at
> >> > all.
> >> >
> >> > I have Vista Home Basic, on a Dell Inspirion 1101 with built in wifi.
> >> >
> >> > "nicholas hall" wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> I have a PC running vista ultimate which uses a BT Voyager 2100
> >> >> roughter
> >> >> (with wireless capabilities) and a new laptop vista premium, which
> >> >> has a
> >> >> built in wan card.
> >> >> If I try to connect to a protected network it will not connect. If I
> >> >> remove
> >> >> ALL the protection I still can not connect? If I use a CAT5 cable to
> >> >> connect
> >> >> all is fine??
> >> >> I am at a loss and I wondered if anyone knows what I could do so that
> >> >> I
> >> >> could connect wirelessly.
> >> >>
> >> >> NIK
> >> >>
> >> >
> >>

> >

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