no internet after wep enabled

Hi

Have been setting up a broadband connection with a netgear wireless router.
It was working fine until i set the wep to enabled, i used wep because two
of teh four computers have 11b cards. After that we could connect to the
network but none of the pc's had email or internet.

Any advice appreciated

Gary

--
Visit my websites at
www.justjents.co.uk
www.recumbent.50megs.com

geepeetee

Hi
It depends on what you call: "we could connect to the network connected to
the Network".
If the indication that you can connect to the Network is the presence of the
signal in the Wireless connection Icon, than you probably are Not actually
connected.
Switch of the security make sure that every thing works. Switch on the
security on the Router generate a WEP key, and copy the hex string to the
Wireless computers WEP menu, use the actual hex key not the pass.
Jack (MVP-Networking).

"geepeetee" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Hi
>
> Have been setting up a broadband connection with a netgear wireless
> router. It was working fine until i set the wep to enabled, i used wep
> because two of teh four computers have 11b cards. After that we could
> connect to the network but none of the pc's had email or internet.
>
> Any advice appreciated
>
> Gary
>
> --
> Visit my websites at
> www.justjents.co.uk
> www.recumbent.50megs.com
>

The strength of the signal does not relate directly to if you are connected
or not. If you do | Start (menu) | Run | CMD [Enter] | ipconfig /all [Enter]
| is your wireless card getting an IP address that starts with a
169.xxx.xxx.xxx ? If so you are not connect. My experience is with WEP that
passwords must be entered as hex strings, and not as pass words as Jack has
stated. This is especially true when using different brands of wireless
products. As there is more than one way of turning a password into a key.

--
David Hettel

Please post any reply as a follow-up message in the news group
for everyone to see. I'm sorry, but I don't answer questions
addressed directly to me in E-mail or news groups.

Microsoft Most Valuable Professional Program
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com

DISCLAIMER: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and
confers no rights

"Jack (MVP-Networking)." <> wrote in message
news:%...
> Hi
> It depends on what you call: "we could connect to the network connected to
> the Network".
> If the indication that you can connect to the Network is the presence of
> the signal in the Wireless connection Icon, than you probably are Not
> actually connected.
> Switch of the security make sure that every thing works. Switch on the
> security on the Router generate a WEP key, and copy the hex string to the
> Wireless computers WEP menu, use the actual hex key not the pass.
> Jack (MVP-Networking).
>
> "geepeetee" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>> Hi
>>
>> Have been setting up a broadband connection with a netgear wireless
>> router. It was working fine until i set the wep to enabled, i used wep
>> because two of teh four computers have 11b cards. After that we could
>> connect to the network but none of the pc's had email or internet.
>>
>> Any advice appreciated
>>
>> Gary
>>
>> --
>> Visit my websites at
>> www.justjents.co.uk
>> www.recumbent.50megs.com
>>
>
>

....in addition FWIW ,(and not to do with security), ... manually entering
the hex. looking MAC address of, for example my Dads' PC downstairs with a
PCI WMP54g in it, into my WAG354g router MAC address table would not work -
the router only seems happy if it can generate, or auto detect, those
addresses itself.
....and I wasn't entering the - (dashes) ...and I was entering a zero for 0
and not an O !!

regards, Richard


"David Hettel" <> wrote in message
news:...
> The strength of the signal does not relate directly to if you are
> connected or not. If you do | Start (menu) | Run | CMD [Enter] | ipconfig
> /all [Enter] | is your wireless card getting an IP address that starts
> with a 169.xxx.xxx.xxx ? If so you are not connect. My experience is with
> WEP that passwords must be entered as hex strings, and not as pass words
> as Jack has stated. This is especially true when using different brands of
> wireless products. As there is more than one way of turning a password
> into a key.
>
> --
> David Hettel
>
> Please post any reply as a follow-up message in the news group
> for everyone to see. I'm sorry, but I don't answer questions
> addressed directly to me in E-mail or news groups.
>
> Microsoft Most Valuable Professional Program
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
>
> DISCLAIMER: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and
> confers no rights
>
> "Jack (MVP-Networking)." <> wrote in message
> news:%...
>> Hi
>> It depends on what you call: "we could connect to the network connected
>> to the Network".
>> If the indication that you can connect to the Network is the presence of
>> the signal in the Wireless connection Icon, than you probably are Not
>> actually connected.
>> Switch of the security make sure that every thing works. Switch on the
>> security on the Router generate a WEP key, and copy the hex string to the
>> Wireless computers WEP menu, use the actual hex key not the pass.
>> Jack (MVP-Networking).
>>
>> "geepeetee" <> wrote in message
>> news:...
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> Have been setting up a broadband connection with a netgear wireless
>>> router. It was working fine until i set the wep to enabled, i used wep
>>> because two of teh four computers have 11b cards. After that we could
>>> connect to the network but none of the pc's had email or internet.
>>>
>>> Any advice appreciated
>>>
>>> Gary
>>>
>>> --
>>> Visit my websites at
>>> www.justjents.co.uk
>>> www.recumbent.50megs.com
>>>
>>
>>
>
>