wireless internet

snowman707

first time posting here so please be gentle

I have eircom broadband (netopia router)

I wanted to set up a second pc with wireless internet & asked in a computer shop & the guy sold me an
Edimax wireless LAN USB ADAPTER.

followed instructiion as per book & installer driver etc , reinstalled in case of errors

picks up the eircom connection the second pc but will not allow connect to internet.

getting message it must be a networking issue

sorry for being vague i am not well up on computers but usually sort it through trial & error

not this time

any advise would be great


thanks in a advance

Spear

snowman707 wrote: »

first time posting here so please be gentle

I have eircom broadband (netopia router)

I wanted to set up a second pc with wireless internet & asked in a computer shop & the guy sold me an
Edimax wireless LAN USB ADAPTER.

followed instructiion as per book & installer driver etc , reinstalled in case of errors

picks up the eircom connection the second pc but will not allow connect to internet.

getting message it must be a networking issue

sorry for being vague i am not well up on computers but usually sort it through trial & error

not this time

any advise would be great


thanks in a advance

Did you set the WEP key correctly?

snowman707

Spear wrote: »

Did you set the WEP key correctly?

I believe so.

I will it check it over again later on .

Kevster

Hmm, I use Eircom broadband here too and have no problems with two machines accessing the wireless router at the same time. If it's not a WEP key problem, then tell me this: Does the laptop work when the first computer is switched off? Also, if you have an ethernet connection on your laptop, connect it to the router directly with a cable and see if that works.

Sometimes, my wireless connection just shuts-off for some reason and I just use a cable.

Other than that, just continue with trial-and-error!

limklad

Spear wrote: »

Did you set the WEP key correctly?

Never ever ever use WEP keys on wireless routers, use WPA2 if possible or WPA (if only available). Do not use show easy guessable words as password. WEP is easily cracked.
Also note Laptop wireless drivers need to have the Same Security Capabilities as the wireless router. i.e if you wireless router have only WPA, even though you laptop can connect with WPA2 then WPA will be your encryption protocol.
I use combination of letters (both Upper & lower case, numbers and Special characters such as !"£$%^&*()@\|?/><., when creating very long passwords and use WPA2, but WPA will do for now. Encryption can be broken with brute-force on WPA which takes time so that why i saying.

For now
OP. First you need to is check your second Laptop can connect wireless.

First Step use Ethernet on the second laptop to check Network capability is working on your second Laptop.

If working move to the next step.
Second Step: you need to do Believe it or not for a short period is turn off wireless security on the wireless modem. Try to connect and see if you can bring connect and bring up a webpage. Then Turn on Wireless security (WPA2 if you can) back on when finished.

Find out the Max encryption protocol that you wireless routers and Computers can handle.
Do some research on the Web if you Wireless cards (Laptops) can connect with WEP (Not preferred) WPA or WPA2 (Preferred) encryption.
You router: You can find out by logging into it and searching for it on the Wireless security page. Your Router documentation should have information in how to check for that.

After that, check password carefully and check the type of encryption protocol used, you could be using different encryption protocols. You made also need to upload the latest driver for your wireless card.

After that, good luck and good hunting.

snowman707

limklad wrote: »

Never ever ever use WEP keys on wireless routers, use WPA2 if possible or WPA (if only available). Do not use show easy guessable words as password. WEP is easily cracked.
Also note Laptop wireless drivers need to have the Same Security Capabilities as the wireless router. i.e if you wireless router have only WPA, even though you laptop can connect with WPA2 then WPA will be your encryption protocol.
I use combination of letters (both Upper & lower case, numbers and Special characters such as !"£$%^&*()@\|?/><., when creating very long passwords and use WPA2, but WPA will do for now. Encryption can be broken with brute-force on WPA which takes time so that why i saying.

For now
OP. First you need to is check your second Laptop can connect wireless.

First Step use Ethernet on the second laptop to check Network capability is working on your second Laptop.

If working move to the next step.
Second Step: you need to do Believe it or not for a short period is turn off wireless security on the wireless modem. Try to connect and see if you can bring connect and bring up a webpage. Then Turn on Wireless security (WPA2 if you can) back on when finished.

Find out the Max encryption protocol that you wireless routers and Computers can handle.
Do some research on the Web if you Wireless cards (Laptops) can connect with WEP (Not preferred) WPA or WPA2 (Preferred) encryption.
You router: You can find out by logging into it and searching for it on the Wireless security page. Your Router documentation should have information in how to check for that.

After that, check password carefully and check the type of encryption protocol used, you could be using different encryption protocols. You made also need to upload the latest driver for your wireless card.

After that, good luck and good hunting.

Thanks


got it sorted now with WPA & a very basic encryption for now , will change that later however not much danger here (Out in the wilderness)

Thanks to all for help.

bondja

And where Can I bay edimax ew7318 usb wireless adapter?

Sam Vimes

bondja wrote: »

And where Can I bay edimax ew7318 usb wireless adapter?

why do you speicifcally need that one?

mach1982

snowman707 wrote: »

got it sorted now with WPA & a very basic encryption for now , will change that later however not much danger here (Out in the wilderness)

As most wireless has range of 100m, and i live in middle of nowhere i use no encryption, just MAC filtering . who will hack me the sheep

bondja

I need for my laptop, because doesnt have good reception from router. And this wirlees usb adapter have small antenna and improve reception of wireless signal.