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From: Georgiy on 16 Jan 2010 09:07 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.
From: Lem on 16 Jan 2010 12:54 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
From: Georgiy on 16 Jan 2010 15:57 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
From: Lem on 16 Jan 2010 16:26 Georgiy wrote: > 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 > > > If you were connected to your router wirelessly (instead of using an Ethernet cable) when you made the change to the encryption settings, as soon as you clicked "Apply" your connection to the router would have been lost. 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)? 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? -- Lem Apollo 11 - 40 years ago: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/40th/index.html
From: Jack [MVP-Networking] on 17 Jan 2010 12:19 Hi If lem's advice did not work. Connect the Computer to the Router with a wire and reconfigure the Wireless 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. 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. 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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