Connecting to a router

IcyEars

mah_jong wrote: »

If I try to add my own computer I would need to find my Mac address

To find your MAC address, open a command prompt and type: IPCONFIG -ALL

In the list this produces, find your wireless network card and look for the Physical Address. This is your MAC address.

mah_jong

Thanks for that Icyears, dont know how to bring up the router home page though!

IcyEars

Can't help with that I'm afraid, I don't have a HomeHub!

ukmike

http://bthomehub.home/

mah_jong

I had seen that page but because it asks to change the password, I did not want to touch anything done by someone else. What happens if I muck it up?? Or will it just let me change it to the serial number and hope that is what it was set at previously?

Its not my router, my pals friend put it in and there are out of contact!

Perhaps its a lost cause trying to get my laptop to connect!

totalsolutions

mah_jong wrote: »

On the back it has
BT home hub wireless settings
Sidd...
wirelesskey ....
Yes thats the two key bits of info. you need to enter into the wireless configuration settings on your laptop.

entered wireless key combination into the bar and that did not bring up the router home page either!

Never said it would..you want to get a wireless lan connection. The router home page accessed from a browser and will have a dotted notation number like 10.10.10.1 (ip address). As this is not your router you have no need to go into that screen.

Posts about mac address and power cycles are just confusing the matter for you.
Keep going you are nearly there!

espresso

mah_jong wrote: »

Perhaps its a lost cause trying to get my laptop to connect!

Have you ever connected your laptop to a wireless router and successfully surfed the net before? i.e. is it configured correctly?

mah_jong

espresso wrote: »

Have you ever connected your laptop to a wireless router and successfully surfed the net before? i.e. is it configured correctly?

Yes, Have set up my own (following instructions here from albertross??), then shortly after did another. Got them secure etc, also used my own laptop on other wireless routers but have always been able to get in after entering password, so they must have been set differently.

When I start at the beginning of setting up the router I and can take my time, I can trace my steps, should I made a mistake BUT this is different.

Never seen this, you are connected with limited use before! That means no internet.

espresso

mah_jong wrote: »

Never seen this, you are connected with limited use before! That means no internet.

You can be connected but unable to actually pass data if the encryption key is incorrect.

[FONT=Verdana, Arial]The default IP address for the BT Home Hub is 192.168.1.254[/FONT]