Wireless Issue: Can't get IP when WEP turned on.
GHoosdum
Icrontian
I'm having a very strange issue with my wireless networking.
I bought a Belkin Wireless-G router on Black Friday at OfficeMax this year. I plugged it in (following the stupid install guide) and suddenly none of our PCs were able to get a wireless connection, with everything set up on the router exactly as it had been on the old Wifi-b router. I decided to try a few things.
First, I re-enabled "Broadcast SSID" hoping that would help. It made no difference. Then I disabled WEP. Guess what? It connected, and I was on the web.
Then, thinking that there must be some kind of compatibility problem between the new router and our machines, I put the old router back into place, with the same exact configuration as before.
Suddently, it had the same exact problem as the new WiFi-G router. I could not get my machines to re-connect wirelessly on the old router with both the machines and the router in the same exact configuration they had been in before - but by turning off WEP again (this time on the old router) the machines were able to connect wirelessly again.
Any ideas? This one has me stumped, and PO'd at the same time.
I bought a Belkin Wireless-G router on Black Friday at OfficeMax this year. I plugged it in (following the stupid install guide) and suddenly none of our PCs were able to get a wireless connection, with everything set up on the router exactly as it had been on the old Wifi-b router. I decided to try a few things.
First, I re-enabled "Broadcast SSID" hoping that would help. It made no difference. Then I disabled WEP. Guess what? It connected, and I was on the web.
Then, thinking that there must be some kind of compatibility problem between the new router and our machines, I put the old router back into place, with the same exact configuration as before.
Suddently, it had the same exact problem as the new WiFi-G router. I could not get my machines to re-connect wirelessly on the old router with both the machines and the router in the same exact configuration they had been in before - but by turning off WEP again (this time on the old router) the machines were able to connect wirelessly again.
Any ideas? This one has me stumped, and PO'd at the same time.
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1) Set SSID to "any" no quotes.
2) Turn off WEP
3) Check to ensure the MAC addy of the wireless PC has been added to the LAN accepted mac addy list.
4) Download the latest drivers for the wireless card.
You should be able to connect now at these default levels. The problem is that you aren't secure. It's a pain. I have changed my SSID on both router and NIC to any other matching alpha-numeric combination and the NIC can't connnect.
Turn on WEP...it shuts down.
Wireless networking and security. You are either going to meet people who are "It worked for me." and you want to smack them or your exact situation.
Remember to cycle the power on the Router too. Let's get you at least established at safe default levels then work our way up from there towards better security.
I have to use HEX.