Jimbo 175 Posted March 16, 2006 Share Posted March 16, 2006 I recently noticed that I can detect a couple of my neighbours Wireless signals from my PC and felt that it was time to enable WEP to protect my signal. I connected my Router to my PC using a LAN cable inorder to enable WEP and also change my SSID to something other than the default. I changed both and when I started up my router as normal and then searched for avaliable wireless networks I found my newly named SSID which was labled as being securely protected. However when I chose to connect via my new SSID it wouldn't connect even though I had correctly entered in the WEP code. I turned the WEP off and tried again, and it still wouldn't connect, I then changed the SSID back to the default and it connected straight away ? I used the Wireless set up wizard and correctly entered in all my new details but it still wont connect to my new SSID and WEP, so currently I'm running "bareback" as it were ! with no protection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimbo 175 Posted March 20, 2006 Author Share Posted March 20, 2006 Sussed it and don't I feel dumb ! I hadn't reinstalled the manufacturers config software since my rebuild, although Windows by default would access my router via my wireless card, the only way i could correctly configure my WEP settings was by using the manufacturers interface. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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