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[Wickett McGibson]

Goodmorning my yout's

I have a BT Home Hub at home. My broadband is wired from the HH to my desktop PC. I am trying to use my laptop and pick up a broadband connection wireless in the house. It find the HH but cannot connect as there seems to be a protection on the wifi connection.......

Questions:

1. Does the above make any sense atall?

2. If so, how do i get rid of this protection so I can access tinternet from laptop?

Cheers, Wickett

[Ouster]

Sounds like you'll need the WEP/WPA key (knowing BT the default encryption will be the rubbish WEP type).

This key will be several pairs of numbers/letters strung together, and may be found on the bottom of the router or in the router settings page (which you will have to access using a wired connection to the router and using your internet browser).

In windows, try to connect to the network, and it should prompt you for the key if you are connecting for the first time. Choose the key type, enter it, and you should be connected!

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i have this router and the key is located on the back named WIRELESS KEY

hope this helps

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[Wickett McGibson]

Excellentai

Ill give this a whirl when i get home tonight!!! Thank you kind squires

[Jammy]

What is the point of encryption if BT are going to give every Wifi network the same encryption key. I guess the SSID is set to be the same for every network too!?

[rimmer1993]

I had that problem just this week BT were really bad at customer services and help so we left and virgin going with virgin later today

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I am on my third hub (because they are soooo reliable) and each one has had a different key on the barcode on it

[pcracker]

Every Home Hub will have a unique WEP key adjacent to the serial number on the back. The serial number is also the password to change the router settings with your browser.

I have found that if you are using Vista with a Home Hub that you need to disable the Vista firewall before trying to conect to the Home Hub wirelessly then turn it back on once successfully connected.

[Wickett McGibson]

Happy to report lasptop and PS3 now set up on wireless!!

Cheers all for help,

Wickett

[Ouster]

Hooray!

Why do so many companies still use WEP as the default encryption? It's ridiculous.

[pcracker]

Hooray!

Why do so many companies still use WEP as the default encryption? It's ridiculous.

Couldn't agree more, I've heard it takes about 10mins to beat the standard WEP encryption on a BT Homehub..........I'm sure experts are a lot faster!