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From: Georgiy on 23 Jan 2010 16:22
I am very sorry I have no time till now to answer to your messages. Let me
answer in order.
To Lem:
>Are you saying that now when you "View available wireless networks" you see
>other wireless networks but not your own? Have you made any other changes
>to your router's configuration (such as disabling SSID broadcast)?
Yes on the first question. No on the second.

>Try the following:
>turn off router and computer
>turn on router; wait 2 or 3 minutes; turn on computer.
>Now go to the View Available Wireless Networks screen. Is your network
>there?
Yes. But with no encription as earlier!



To Jack:
"Jack [MVP-Networking]" <jack(a)discussiongroup.com> wrote in message
news:uGDx6k5lKHA.6096(a)TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> Hi
> If lem's advice did not work.
> Connect the Computer to the Router with a wire and reconfigure the
> Wireless without encryption.
I am not sure I understood You rightly. After my unlucky attempt to make
encryption for Wireless connection why and what I have to reconfigure? It is
already and again without encryption.


> Why ( http://www.ezlan.net/faq.html#onewire ).
> Log to the Computer's Wireless setting and clean the preferred list.
> http://www.ezlan.net/wireless/wzc3.jpg
> At this point you should be able to connect wirelessly without encryption.
Agree. That is the way I did before my attempt to install encryption.


> If it works Ok, log again to the Router and enter a security code.
> Copy from the Router the actual Hex string of the code, and paste it into
> the computer's Wireless setting.
OK. But why I had to make that long procedure that was for example described
in the first Lem's message to install that damned encryption and not that
simple and short you suggested above?

> Jack (MS, MVP-Networking).





> "Georgiy" <raduga(a)si.rr.com> wrote in message
> news:OtndQ6ulKHA.2780(a)TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>> Thank you for prompt and understandable answer but the problem is that it
>> is the way I tried to install the encryption earlier. After I made all
>> the prescribed procedures and clicked Apply the connection to Internet
>> was lost (that I think is OK) and computer did not see this network at
>> all though it saw other networks around. So the problem was not solved.
>>
>> "Lem" <lemp40(a)unknownhost> wrote in message
>> news:uI12tTtlKHA.4872(a)TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>>> Georgiy wrote:
>>>> I used DI-514 router for internet connection to two my computers via
>>>> cable. I never used encryption for wireless part. Now I want to. So I
>>>> followed all the suggestions of setup wizard and everything was alright
>>>> till the last pace came. After the wizard's suggestion "Click Restart"
>>>> that I complied the computer stoped to respond.
>>>> Windows XP SP3 Home is installed on computer.
>>>
>>> You didn't say what "wizard" you used.
>>>
>>> You don't need to use a wizard to configure wireless security and in
>>> fact many (most?) home routers, including your old DI-514, are not
>>> compatible with the XP Wireless Network Setup wizard.
>>>
>>> Assuming that you haven't messed up your computer and your existing
>>> (wired) network, what you need to do is access the router's
>>> configuration utility and configure wireless security.
>>>
>>> Please note that your DI-514 is a wireless-B only router (limited to a
>>> *maximum* bit rate of 11 Mbps (throughput approx 5 Mbps) and more
>>> importantly, only capable of WEP wireless encryption. WEP encryption is
>>> very easily defeated using tools readily available to anyone on the
>>> Internet. For these reasons, you would be much better off if you
>>> replaced your DI-514 with a newer router capable of WPA2 encryption
>>> (assuming, of course, that the wireless adapter on your computer(s) are
>>> capable of WPA2).
>>>
>>> To configure encryption on the DI-514, access the router's web
>>> configuration utility. If you have not changed any of the router's
>>> defaults, open a web browser on a computer connected to the router with
>>> an Ethernet cable and enter 192.168.0.1 in the address bar of your
>>> browser. When the login screen appears, enter admin (lower case) as the
>>> user name and leave the password blank.
>>>
>>> Click the Wireless button. Change the SSID to something unique other
>>> than your last name or address. Enable WEP. Select 128 bit. Enter
>>> key1, in either Hex or ASCII. If you use Hex, the key should be exactly
>>> 26 Hex digits (0-9,A-F); if you use ASCII, it should be exactly 13
>>> alphameric characters. Write it down carefully. Click apply.
>>>
>>> On your wireless computer (if it is the same computer that you used to
>>> configure the router, disconnect the Ethernet cable), click the icon for
>>> your wireless connection in the notification area and select view
>>> available wireless networks. Select your SSID and click connect. Enter
>>> the key that you wrote down. Repeat this process on the second computer.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Lem
>>>
>>> Apollo 11 - 40 years ago:
>>> http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/40th/index.html
>>
>>
>>
>



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