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Setting up your wireless router

Most Wi-Fi products ship with security turned off. So once you have your network working, you need to activate WEP or WPA and make sure all your wireless devices are sharing the same network key.

IMPORTANT: You must now set all wireless network cards/adapters to match these settings.

Sharing the Same Network Keys

Most Wi-Fi products ship with security turned off. So once you have your network working, you need to activate WEP or WPA and make sure your wireless networking devices are sharing the same network key.

The wireless G desktop card cannot access the network because it is using a different network key than the network key that is configured on the wireless G router.

Using a Hexadecimal Key

Ahexadecimal key is a combination of numbers and letters from A-F and 0-9. 64-bit keys are five two-digit numbers. 128-bit keys are 13 two-digit numbers.

For instance:

AF 0F 4B C3 D4 = 64-bit key

C3 03 0F AF 0F 4B B2 C3 D4 4B C3 D4 E7 = 128-bit key

Note to Mac users: Original Apple® AirPort® products support 64-bit encryption only. Apple AirPort 2 products can support 64-bit or 128-bit encryption. Please check your product to see which version you are using. If you cannot configure your network with 128-bit encryption, try 64-bit encryption.

WEP Setup

To set up 64-Bit WEP encryption:

1Click Security under the Wireless heading on the left menu. The Wireless > Security page opens.

2 Select 64-bit WEP from the Security Mode list.

3Enter your key by typing in the hex key manually, or you can put a check mark in Passphrase, then type in your passphrase.

4Click Generate to generate four different hex keys.

A hex (hexadecimal) key is a combination of numbers and letters from A-F and 0-9. For 64-bit WEP, you need to enter 10 hex keys.

For example: AF 0F 4B C3 D4 = 64-bit WEP key