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Mon, 20/04/2009 - 02:33
Network Key
Network Key
I have a Belkin wireless G router connected to my PC. My laptop has a Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN mini-card. My laptop indicates that I am able to connect to the router and the signal is excellent. I am not able to connect to the Internet. My network key on the router is approx 19 characters long. When I check it through my Laptop in the wireless network properties it is only 8 characters long. I have deleted the network from the list and added it with the 19 character key, but it keeps reverting back to the 8 character key.
OS=WXP
Network authentication=WPA-PSK
Data Encryption=TKIP
When I do a diagnostics the problem appears to be the authentication.
Can anyone help me
Vlad
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Do you mean that you are not
Do you mean that you are not able to connect to the router at all, or that you can connect to the router, but not get onto the Internet? Since you used WPA-PSK, you would have typed in the passphrase yourself so you will need to use the same passphrase on the notebook. If the passwords are different, then you won't be able to wirelessly connect to the router at all.
What you can do is try to change the network name and password in the router and try and re-connect the laptop using the new network info.
Vlad, If you could indicate a
Vlad,
If you could indicate a little more details it would be terrific.
However I'll take a stab at what I can gather is the issue.
You can connect to the router, however not the internet.
This could be caused by a number of issues.
- Mac Address Filtering.
* Check to see if you have enabled MAC Filtering on the router or not. If so then confirm that the WLAN device MAC address is correct in the MAC list, and that you have also enabled "allow" and not "prevent or not allow" listed Mac address's.
- No internet connection at all.
* Check this by using a LAN (Cat 5 or 6) cable directly between the Router and the notebook, if you can get on the net then it is an issue with the WLAN side of things. If not then you have other Internet issues - Modem, and or router.
- You may also be defaulting to another Wireless Network.
- Confirm that the router is setup to allocate DHCP client addresses also.
Hope this helps.
Cheers,
Michael Bounader
MB Information Technology Solutions.
www.mbinfotech.com.au