Can Our Neighbors Use Our Wireless Network?

[bigfrank Administrator Find all posts View Profile Close bigfrank]

Jim I am saying to save it on each computer so it is there in case you lose it or need it. You won't have to run to the main computer and write it down.

[jericap Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close jericap]

I work from home some of the time and I have to log in each time I use my work computer as it's on a network with encryption.

[JLB Please excuse me, I'm a Dick. Not a moron just a Dick Find all posts View Profile Close JLB]

OK, let me say it one other way.

We have the WEP Key saved on our LT so it can use our network, without having to long on.

If you can do that to ours, you can do that to any.

The dell techie did it to ours, by taking over and operating our computer. Al I could do is to try to slow her down so I could write down the steps she took.

I pretty much understand what she did, but cannot find what would be the equivalent of Dell Wireless on my nephew's HP.

[lawren2 Malibu Beach Barbie & A Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close lawren2]

OK, let me say it one other way.

We have the WEP Key saved on our LT so it can use our network, without having to long on.

If you can do that to ours, you can do that to any.

The dell techie did it to ours, by taking over and operating our computer. Al I could do is to try to slow her down so I could write down the steps she took.

I pretty much understand what she did, but cannot find what would be the equivalent of Dell Wireless on my nephew's HP.

Can't help you as I also use a Dell laptop, I have also used an IBM, BUT wherever I am I just log in the WEP key and I'm good. Unless it is a network that times out and changes the encryption code on a daily or weekly basis.

What Frank says makes sense though. Every once in a blue moon there will be a hiccup and I lose my house network and have to go upstairs and fuss with the router for the key. It pays to have it somewhere in you computer so you can just copy & paste it instead of typing it twice.

[T. R. Oglodyte Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close T. R. Oglodyte]

OK, let me say it one other way.

We have the WEP Key saved on our LT so it can use our network, without having to long on.

If you can do that to ours, you can do that to any.

The dell techie did it to ours, by taking over and operating our computer. Al I could do is to try to slow her down so I could write down the steps she took.

I pretty much understand what she did, but cannot find what would be the equivalent of Dell Wireless on my nephew's HP.

Jim -

On every computer I've ever used I enter the WEP key when my wireless card tries to connect to the network. With most Windows PCs, one of the icons in the System Tray on the lower right corner of your screeen is for the wireless manager. Double click on that icon and the wireless manager will open and show the list of available networks. You can also access the Windows wireless manager from the Start Menu by going to (via the Control Panel if necessary) and selecting wireless connection. It may be that the wireless card in the computer uses it's own wireless manager instead of the Windows manager. In that case you need to locate and open that wireless manager. Again, there will usually be an icon in the system tray. If not, the wireless manager will be one of the Program options on the Start Menu.

When you open the Wireless Manager you should then see a box showing available networks. It should also say whether network is secured or open. If your network doesn't appear as Secure in your Wireless Manager, then you probably haven't successfully set up security at the router.

Select the name for the network you've created, and click "connect". A dialog box will appear that will ask for the Identification Key - that's where you put in the WEP key. Click OK and you should be done. If you select the option to connect automatically, the ID key will be stored in the computer and you shouldn't ever have to reenter it unless you switch to manual connection mode, you reinstall Windows, or you change networking hardware (either at the router or on the specific computer).

HTH.

[JLB Please excuse me, I'm a Dick. Not a moron just a Dick Find all posts View Profile Close JLB]

Well, maybe we will have to enter the WEP Key each time we try to access.

I'll let you know.

Has anyone considered the possibility that you could do what I'm saying, enter the WEP Key in your computer permanently, so you don't have to enter it each time, only you didn't know you could do that?

[PigsDad Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close PigsDad]

Well, maybe we will have to enter the WEP Key each time we try to access.

I'll let you know.

Has anyone considered the possibility that you could do what I'm saying, enter the WEP Key in your computer permanently, so you don't have to enter it each time, only you didn't know you could do that?

What Steve said just above your note is exactly how it works on any computer I have used -- the first time you connect, you enter your WEP key. Then any time you connect after that, the computer remembers the WEP key and you do not have to re-enter it. I have never had to do anything special to "save" the key -- it has always done that for me automatically. My only guess is that your LP's wireless card has a different connection manager, and doesn't do that for you?

Kurt

[JLB Please excuse me, I'm a Dick. Not a moron just a Dick Find all posts View Profile Close JLB]

When we connect to the Internet on our LT, we do not have to enter the WEP Key each time. So there is a way to save it permanently.

Incidentally, I tried to log onto TS4Ms from the LT, which I have done several times the last week, with no problem. This time after logging into TS4Ms and getting the welcome page, it blocked me, with the message that due to problems with someone from my IP, guests from my IP are being blocked from viewing TS4Ms.

That's after I identified myself and logged in.

I've heard that from others off an on since the problem.

[T. R. Oglodyte Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close T. R. Oglodyte]

This time after logging into TS4Ms and getting the welcome page, it blocked me, with the message that due to problems with someone from my IP, guests from my IP are being blocked from viewing TS4Ms.

That's after I identified myself and logged in.

Yep - that's SWRNL, not your wireless.

[JLB Please excuse me, I'm a Dick. Not a moron just a Dick Find all posts View Profile Close JLB]

So, since I have not been blocked all the last week, does that mean the problem has returned?

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As part of our remodeling, we are moving the computer center to our guest suite. This week we are putting new floor down in it and I unplugged the DSL briefly to move the power cord to another outlet.

We lost DSL doing that, and I had to call a CenturyTel techie to get it back. It wasn't hard, but if we lose it every power flash, that could be a &#)%#.

[lawren2 Malibu Beach Barbie & A Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close lawren2]

As part of our remodeling, we are moving the computer center to our guest suite. This week we are putting new floor down in it and I unplugged the DSL briefly to move the power cord to another outlet.

We lost DSL doing that, and I had to call a CenturyTel techie to get it back. it wasn't hard, but if we lose it every power flash, that could be a &#)%#.

You will become very adept at unplugging and recycling it. One of the reasons I ditched and went with FIOS when it became available to me. In 5 months I have lost my Fios connection once.

[dale7 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close dale7]

Get a Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) for your dsl modem for when your power goes out. You can get one large one for your hole Computer system.