BT Home Hub Access

[axel]

Hi,

My son is having trouble setting up his wirekess connection. He has a new lap top and the BT Home Hub.

The Windows XP wizard just seems to give you the network settings and generate the key but does not take you any further.

How does he access the Home Hub? He has tried 192.168.1.1 in IE which does not work.

Also how does he access his wireless network card to input the key and the settings? The card is 802.11g wireless minicard by Ralink. He cannot find a model number.

I know he needs to get the same SSID and network key into both devices and ensure that all settings are the same.

Any help would be appreciated.

Axel

 

[axel]

Hi can you elaborate a bit?

>>>he needs to go into wireless network settings in control panel

there will be an option to scan for wireless networks

he should then find his home humb and prompt him to enter the SSID and the wep key

both of which are pre programmed into the BT home hub and can be found on a sticker on the back.<<<

If the settings, network key and SSID are already in the network card then surely it must be these settings that need to go into the router and not the ones on the router label?

Axel

 

[axel]

Many thanks for that.

I set up a normal wireless router, with USB dongle on the PC, for a neighbour a few months ago and I seem to remember putting the SSID and Windows generated network key into both devices. This has been confusing me.

Axel