I received my new Orange Livebox on Monday and after a few hours of fiddling, finally managed to get it working.
At first it would only work with my wired desktop connection, but after a bit of googling I managed to find some recommendations to try. I set the security to No Security and tried every single channel, with the final channel 13 working.
I then set the security to WEP Only and it worked too. After a bit more googling I discovered that WEP security is regarded to be easily hackable so I tried upgrading it to WPA Only security.
I deleted the Livebox's profile from the Wireless Networks list in XP, so it would have to detect it again and set the settings from scratch. It detected the Livebox and asked for a Network Key, I gave it the WEP key (I'm assuming that since there's no WPA key listed anywhere that the two keys are the same) and it just sits at "Aquiring IP Address" which it never gets.
I've tried this on two different laptops HP Pavilion dv1000 and a Dell Inspiron 1300, and on my SPV M600 mobile with WiFi. None of them work.
I've tried updating the drivers on my HP laptop getting the latest Intel PRO/Wireless 220BG drivers straight from the Intel site, didn't make a difference.
Is this a problem with the Livebox? Is there a seperate WPA key somewhere that I'm missing? Can anyone help?
I live in a busy apartment complex, I'm running XP Home on all machines and I need a lot of shared folders, so if my wifi security isn't up to scratch then I might as well have an ethernet cable hanging out of my letterbox.
wpa only really became main stream in the last 2 or so years so older devices don't always work with it.
Try setting the livebox to both wpa and wep
as far as im aware the wep and wpa keys are the same (which is stupid because if someone cracks the wep key then the networks been compromised - even for wpa connected devices)
My HP laptop is less than four months old, so I would hope that it supports WPA. The Dell laptop was bought at the start of the year, and the M600 was only released two or Three months ago and according to this review includes WPA: http://www.modaco.com/index.ph...pic=240834
The livebox came set to WEP and WPA by default, that was the initial problem, nothing worked in that mode. Changing it to WEP or No Security are the only things that work.
Not many devices do dual WEP and WPA which can confuse a load of wireless setups. The WEP key serves a dual purpose too being for both WEP and WPA, they really ought to have labelled it wireless key or something similar.
Getting to aquiring network address means a few things can be the cause, mis-entered key (copy and paste it from the config to be sure), signal problems (possibly if you've got general interfernece which is a little less on channel 13), pairing (pressing 1 so the antenna flashes, the Wifi MAC address is then added to the associated devices list so after that no need for pairing).
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