Setting up wireless internet on HP Ipaq 5500

thread1985 · 4 Jul 2006 at 08:31

I purchased an Ipaq 5500 yesterday and i have spent ages now trying to connect it to my router to be able to use pocket msn and the internet.

I think the pda connects to the router as it comes up with good signal strength and the green wireless ligth flashes, but i just cannot seem to set the options correctly to be able to use that wifi connecting to browse the net and msn.

Would much appreciate any help that somebody could give me.

Ta

smelf1 · 4 Jul 2006 at 09:08

Hi thread1985,

Do you have wep or one of the other security features turned on on your wireless router? check to see if the wireless router was set up to only recieve mac addresses specified nics. You can change this mac setting and add the mac address of your pda.

thread1985 · 4 Jul 2006 at 10:06

I did have wep but i turned it off to make it easier to set up, and it wasnt locked to mac addresses, i think i have got the ipaq connected to the router possibly i just cant get the internal settings to go from the internet to ie explorer.

smelf1 · 4 Jul 2006 at 11:33

i had an issue like that before and i just got my username/password etc from the isp and reset and reconfigured the router, left wep etc off and just added the mac addresses off all my wireless nics to the router instead of wep and it worked fine.