Airport problem

jdf

I'm unable to access my wireless network from my iMac. My neighbour can connect and surf the web over my connection using my wep key on his Dell laptop. I cannot. If I use the ethernet cable I can get on to the internet. If I try to go wirelessly I get nothing. Where do I begin?

JamesSweeney

Hi.

Try these websites:
http://www.apple.com/support/airport/
and
http://discussions.info.apple.com/airport/

Cheers.
James

jdf

Thanks James - I've been through the apple.com/support/airport pages but they don't have an answer that I in my novicity can decipher. Ok so a little more info - when I try to connect to my wireless network using the Airport Setup Assistant it informs me that eircomxxx xxxx (my network) has a password. When I enter the wep key (which works when we use my neighbours laptop) I get a password incorrect note. Do I need to preface it with $ as mentioned here http://discussions.info.apple.com/webx/.3bb7b893

deRanged

can you connect if you disable encryption on the network?

can you connect to you neighbors laptop in a peer to peer network?
(create a network on the imac and connect to it from the laptop)

if you're putting a passphrase in you don't need the $ sign at all.

jdf

thanks for that

I'm not using a passphrase so I'll do it with the $ and see

flywheel

hi, looks like you're using Eircom supplied Broadband Wireless equipment from your post above... when prompted to join the network, from the Wireless Security Drop Down list choose WEP 40/128-bit ASCII option (not just the default WEP Password optoin), and enter the password