Wifi Problems

[keith_henson]

oh bugger

was just sorting my mates laptop to use my wifi base by adding his mac address and now the base totally does not respond to anything

Belkin 54g wifi base - removed WEP encryption, added the mac address of the new adaptor to use it, clicked apply changes, now dead!

Any ideas as to why?

Im stuffed as to wonder how this happened. Tried pressing the reset button but nothing either

[Dive In Paphos]

Originally Posted by keith_henson

oh bugger

was just sorting my mates laptop to use my wifi base by adding his mac address and now the base totally does not respond to anything

Belkin 54g wifi base - removed WEP encryption, added the mac address of the new adaptor to use it, clicked apply changes, now dead!

Any ideas as to why?

Im stuffed as to wonder how this happened. Tried pressing the reset button but nothing either

Sorry Keith looked at this coz I thought you had problems with 'er indoors! :-)

As you can tell I am very computerish!

ATB

Jonno

[Alun]

Can you connect to it using a network cable rather than just over wifi?
Have you got the correct SSID entered? If you search for your network with netstumbler can you find it?

Good luck!!

[keith_henson]

just tried those three things

I cant connect to it through my main pc, i cant ping it (times out), netstumbler cant see it yet all three lights on the front are on and working


I think I have DOA here

[johntemp]

Nope, I'm going down the same route.
I need to sort out my Wifi security as I have just found out that my neighbour has been using my broadband connection for the last couple of weeks as I had forgotten to set one damn checkbox in my router!
She had bought a new laptop and found that she had access to the internet, rather than tell me, she carried on using it until she let it slip after a few drinks the other night!

[tom]

I had a problem recently when I tried to add a new computer (mate's laptop) to my wifi network.

Neither of the two wireless machines in the house, or his laptop, would connect once I had added his MAC address.

Turned out I had selected the option to exclude those three addresses, rather than exclude any address other than those three. Oops.

Had to reconfigure the router by connecting to it with an ethernet cable once I realised what I'd done. Once I'd included rather than excluded the relevant addresses everything worked perfectly.

Might be something similar going on here?

[John Touhig]

Keith,

Have you tried a factory reset? This should return all of the settings to the factory defaults. Its usualy something "press and hold the reset button for x seconds"

HTH

John

[keith_henson]

aye

for some reason it had failed on its reboot. Factory reset sorted it, then was the challenge of remembering the factory defaults


All sorted now

Cheers and thanks


Keith