WiFi connection problems

Cardew

I have been staying for a week in France with a pal who rents out 2 cottages. He has WiFi internet without security(his place is a long way from any other property/road) and uses a Sagem router.

Whilst I could ‘see’ his signal on both my laptop and IPod Touch I couldn’t get the internet as my PC showed the source as non-associated. He had someone else who had this problem and he found that by pressing the ‘associate’ button on the router they could log on whilst the light was flashing, and for the rest of their stay they were able to connect to the internet.

This procedure also worked for my PC and Ipod – they immediately connected and the PC showed I was ‘associated’. However as soon as I lost the signal, either by switching off PC/Ipod or moving out of range in the large garden, it wouldn’t connect again(showing non-associated) until the same procedure of pressing the associate button was repeated.

Anyone any ideas please?

Cardew

As this had slipped back to page 5 - bump!!

weegie.geek

It's probably a security measure to ensure that even if you've got an open network, only those with physical access to the router can connect. Tell him to enable WPA, problem solved.