SSID AND ALSO WEP OR WPA KEY

Of course if you are the 'administrator' of said system, then you'll need to be specific, as few pieces of hardware are made alike.
 
i am the administrator, im trying to connect a philips wireless music system to my pc, and it needs these to configure it.
 
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Log into your wireless router and go to the wireless settings - in there will be the ssid and the encryption key... but have you not assigned these yourself?

Or am I missing something here?
 
Ah right ive got ssid,( model of router)??
Data encryption ( WEP) ?
Network key, which is in password form?

And no a friend set it up for me??:)

Also says, Network Authentication,, open?
 
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ssid is not the model of router mate - it's what you (optionally) assign it to broadcast, e.g a Linksys router will broadcast the ssid 'Linksys' by default unless it's changed or disabled to broadcast. If you have any wireless clients connected to it, the ssid is the name of the wireless network they are connected to.
The wep/wpa access key will likely be starred out on the clients software config panel, you will need access to the wireless router to see what the key has been set to. The ip address of your wireless router is more than likely to be your default gateway ip address in network connections.

hth.

and good luck ;)

Edit: If it's open, no password is assigned - which means anyone in range can connect, unless mac filtering has been enabled. Just stick the ssid in, and check your house wall for chalk :p
 
Thanks not starred out like large dots??, u can tell im new to this ,lol, so where is it i have to go to get the access key?
 
Starred out or dotted out, most likely dotted out in xp, depends on what your using, I guess dotted out is more common, I just meant blanked out so you can't see whats been entered. You'll need to be logged into your router to see whats been entered as your wireless network key.
If you go to network connections and find the default gateway for your active connection, this will likely be your router. Enter the ip address in a browser window... but I'm guessing you'll need a password to log onto the router... which your mate will know. I think a phone call to him is your next step ;)
 
Talking about open networks, I was on a drive back from Nottingham so once I got off the M69, I turned my laptop on and put it on the floor with Netstumbler running. In my village, only going from one end to the other (one road though) it found 55 networks, 21 of which were unprotected :eek:
 
Thats seems quite a lot! Must be because they're residentials, but even so... I'm surprised that that many people haven't twigged on, most residentials I've come across are wep, most businesses wpa. I guess it figures out ;)
 
JayMax said:
Thats seems quite a lot! Must be because they're residentials, but even so... I'm surprised that that many people haven't twigged on, most residentials I've come across are wep, most businesses wpa. I guess it figures out ;)
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I know! The few that are down my road all protected. Some have a blank ssid too. Most are using WEP but myself and a fella down the road are both WPA-PSK.

Without touching on the legalities, I was tempted to see if they had any shares and leaving a document on there telling them how to make it more secure ;)
 
I have to announce the SSID on mine or my wireless bridge drops, but you can be sure it's behind both MAC filtering and WPA-PSK with a nice long key. :)
 
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