o2 broadband help!

e36Adz · 16 Jul 2008 at 19:26

hi guys,

My o2 broadband went live today, just connected it up using the setup disc on my laptop and all is working fine wirelessly

however, at no point during installation did it give me options to set the network name or a password.

Now from my other laptop, I can find the wireless network, my question is how do I connect to it? It's asking for a network key, where do I find this? This is probably a basic question but when it comes to this kinda stuff I haven't got a clue at all

Also, how secure is the wireless network? Will it have some basic default password allowing anyone to connect to it?

premist · 16 Jul 2008 at 19:34

If you have the o2 wireless box then the key and SSID should be on the router itself, look at the bottom and it should be there.

Hope this helps.

e36Adz · 16 Jul 2008 at 19:36

premist said:
If you have the o2 wireless box then the key and SSID should be on the router itself, look at the bottom and it should be there.

Hope this helps.

Cheers, will go and check right away, thanks for the quick reply

Tombo · 16 Jul 2008 at 19:39

I'm not sure on the address of your router but assuming that it's the same one as Be send out, try http://192.168.1.254/ from the one with net and on the left hand side there should be a Home Network tab, there should be a list of devices and under wireless there'll be something beginning with WLAN: click that and then configure near the top and that should show your current settings and change them if you want.

e36Adz · 16 Jul 2008 at 19:52

Thanks Tombo, premist was right it was actually under the router itself

I'm assuming these keys are all unique right.

Tombo · 16 Jul 2008 at 20:19

Each key is different yes but it'd probably be a good idea to use your own password.