help to check secure wireless

espresso

joe134 wrote: »

I understand that, but when I change the key, then try to get online, I am not being asked for the new key.I only get cannot connect. I must be doing something wrong.I thought that I would be asked for new key to reconnect?I think I,m the Muppet

Click on your wireless icon in the tray and search for available networks, select yours and click connect when you will be prompted to enter your key. If you haven't already changed the SSID in the router, you could change that to something unique and then when you try to connect to the new network name, you will be prompted to enter the encryption key.

joe134

espresso wrote: »

Click on your wireless icon in the tray and search for available networks, select yours and click connect when you will be prompted to enter your key. If you haven't already changed the SSID in the router, you could change that to something unique and then when you try to connect to the new network name, you will be prompted to enter the encryption key.

I didn,t think I needed to change SSID name. I will try changing both, and see if that works.

joe134

espresso wrote: »

Click on your wireless icon in the tray and search for available networks, select yours and click connect when you will be prompted to enter your key. If you haven't already changed the SSID in the router, you could change that to something unique and then when you try to connect to the new network name, you will be prompted to enter the encryption key.

Thanks esresso, yet again you prevail. By changing SSID and key, ok. I would have liked to have used 64bit, but had trouble copy and pasting to wordpad, have to work that one out. Dont want to rely on "my" writing down. never used notepad before.Again I thank you, more peace of mind now:j