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From: Nndroid on 29 Jan 2006 08:03
I've got Bulldog Broadband and use an Apple Airport to connect my OS
10.4.4 iMac to a D-Link DSL-502T ADSL router for wireless broadband.
After a lot of teething troubles it now works ticketty-boo.

But I want to wirelessly connect a Windows XP PC to the network too.
The PC wireless modem recognises the Airport, says it's connected...
but we can't get any data of any kind down the line. It keeps asking
for the WEP key.

I have called Bulldog who say the WEP key does not reside on their
system. Can anyone tell me
a] Is it in the Airport and if so, how can I find it?
b] Is it in the D-Link router and if so, how can I find it?

We're in the end zone of having a fully wired household and if anyone
could tell me what to do here I'd be very grateful. Thanks, DROID

From: john on 29 Jan 2006 08:24

"Nndroid" <nndroid(a)yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1138539788.084410.288700(a)g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> I've got Bulldog Broadband and use an Apple Airport to connect my OS
> 10.4.4 iMac to a D-Link DSL-502T ADSL router for wireless broadband.
> After a lot of teething troubles it now works ticketty-boo.
>
> But I want to wirelessly connect a Windows XP PC to the network too.
> The PC wireless modem recognises the Airport, says it's connected...
> but we can't get any data of any kind down the line. It keeps asking
> for the WEP key.
>
> I have called Bulldog who say the WEP key does not reside on their
> system. Can anyone tell me
> a] Is it in the Airport and if so, how can I find it?
> b] Is it in the D-Link router and if so, how can I find it?
>
> We're in the end zone of having a fully wired household and if anyone
> could tell me what to do here I'd be very grateful. Thanks, DROID
>
The WEP key is something you or a friend has typed in to the configuration
page of the router.
I would say to go into the setup on the router, then switch off WEP and go
for "WPA" instead. Type in the key, then connect via the wireless computer
and type in the same key when it asks - that's all you need to do. If you
can't get in to the setup of the router, do a complete reset. When the
computer detects it, it will not ask for a key, it will just connect. That
way you can go to http://192.168.1.1 or whatever it is and change
everything. The user name on DLINK is normally admin and password is admin.
If you don't put security on then all your neighbours will have a free
connection.

There is an option on some routers to get a WPA key from a server, some
companies have them and I haven't seen any ISP offering that yet. The
instructions for DLINK equipment is substandard by the way, if you hadn't
noticed. They tell you how to get the router working then don't tell you
how to make it secure!


From: Tired Tech on 29 Jan 2006 08:51
I had difficulties as well on the opposite side of the spectrum.
Getting my new iMac to work with an older Linksys router. You may wish
to try one of the following:

a) instead of entering an ASCII WEP password, convert it to HEX. This
removes any sort of padding of data used by the hardware devices. Your
ASCII password ends up getting converted to HEX at the device level.
From previous research, it appears that ASCII WEP was not formally
standardized.

b) change the number of password characters to thirteen (13) for 128 bit
encryption. Another kludge which helps eliminate the padding affect.
If you are using 40/64 bit encryption, then the password would be five
(5) characters - 40/64 bit is not recommended.

If your router and other devices support WPA, then you should be using
that instead. Not only is it more secure, yet the encryption
compatibility foibles seem to have been cleaned up.

In my situation, I had to perform both tasks above. Now the cats
(Apple) and dogs (WinTel) are civil to each other on the network.

Good luck,
Joe


In article <1138539788.084410.288700(a)g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
"Nndroid" <nndroid(a)yahoo.com> wrote:

> I've got Bulldog Broadband and use an Apple Airport to connect my OS
> 10.4.4 iMac to a D-Link DSL-502T ADSL router for wireless broadband.
> After a lot of teething troubles it now works ticketty-boo.
>
> But I want to wirelessly connect a Windows XP PC to the network too.
> The PC wireless modem recognises the Airport, says it's connected...
> but we can't get any data of any kind down the line. It keeps asking
> for the WEP key.
>
> I have called Bulldog who say the WEP key does not reside on their
> system. Can anyone tell me
> a] Is it in the Airport and if so, how can I find it?
> b] Is it in the D-Link router and if so, how can I find it?
>
> We're in the end zone of having a fully wired household and if anyone
> could tell me what to do here I'd be very grateful. Thanks, DROID

--
Tired Tech
From: Nndroid on 29 Jan 2006 12:56
Thanks for all the advice above. We've got over the WEP hurdle and the
PC is now connecting to the network... but it's saying LIMITED OR NO
CONNECTIVITY.

It appears that the PC is refusing to allow the Airport to allocate it
an IP address. The PC's IP address is 169.254.174.220 rather than the
192.xxxx that Airport uses. I know this is a Windows issue rather than
a Mac one, but does anyone know how we can get the PC to do as the
Airport tells it and accept an IP address? Again, many thanks for any
pointers. DROID

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