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26 characters is correct for HEX entry of a 128-bit WEP. Select HEX in the Intel connection manager when setting up the profile. &nbsp;But later you should try to talk her into using WPA2. Using WEP is like closing but not locking your door when you leave - that keeps out only honest people.
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26 characters is correct for HEX entry of a 128-bit WEP. Select HEX in the Intel connection manager when setting up the profile.  But later you should try to talk her into using WPA2. Using WEP is like closing but not locking your door when you leave - that keeps out only honest people.

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My laptop will not connect to my friend's linksys wireless router. &nbsp;I have used the intel pro wireless utility to configure the signal. &nbsp;My friend has given me a 26 character encryption code that I have entered. &nbsp;Her computer is connected wirelessly to this router with no problem. &nbsp;I notice that the configuration utility detects WEP as the encryption when I try to configure my computer but a 26 character code indicates that WPA must be the form of encryption. &nbsp;What should I try in order to connect successfully.<br />
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By the way, my laptop is using Windows XP. &nbsp;My laptop connects to the router but it does not get an IP address from the router and therefore I cannot access the internet.<br />
Thanks in advance for your help.<br />
Capreol
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My laptop will not connect to my friend's linksys wireless router.  I have used the intel pro wireless utility to configure the signal.  My friend has given me a 26 character encryption code that I have entered.  Her computer is connected wirelessly to this router with no problem.  I notice that the configuration utility detects WEP as the encryption when I try to configure my computer but a 26 character code indicates that WPA must be the form of encryption.  What should I try in order to connect successfully.

By the way, my laptop is using Windows XP.  My laptop connects to the router but it does not get an IP address from the router and therefore I cannot access the internet.
Thanks in advance for your help.
Capreol

trouble connecting to wireless router?

Wireless networking is anything related to the transfer of data between two (or more) devices without the use of a physical connection, ranging from getting advice on a new Bluetooth headset to configuring sophisticated enterprise level networks.

Wireless Networking

A router is a networking device that forwards data packets between computer networks. Routers perform the "traffic directing" functions on the Internet. The most familiar type of routers are home and small office cable or DSL routers that simply pass data, such as web pages, email, IM, and videos between computers and the Internet. More sophisticated routers, such as enterprise routers, connect large business or ISP networks up to the powerful core routers that forward data at high speed along the optical fiber lines of the Internet backbone. Though routers are typically dedicated hardware devices, use of software-based routers has grown increasingly common.

Routers

Wireless networking is a method by which homes, telecommunications networks and enterprise (business) installations avoid the costly process of introducing cables into a building, or as a connection between various equipment locations. Wireless telecommunications networks are generally implemented and administered using radio communication. This implementation takes place at the physical level (layer) of the OSI model network structure. The key hardware components of a wireless computer network include adapters, routers and access points, antennas and repeaters.