Please Help - Changing iMac ip address.

isofa

Ahhh, sorry Robert, didn't think your meant wi-fi, thought you just meant direct Ethernet connection and you'd changed the admin password!

As BBB above says, check the airport status, it might be disabled, you should be able to enable it from the icon in the menu bar, or check the settings in System Preferences > Network settings.

robert_harper_2000

Hey,

Thanks for all your replies and advice. I phone Apple as I have the 90 days support. I changed it to a WAP PSK or something apparently Apple doesn't particulary like WEP which is less secure an older form of security.

End result. It works! Except I now have to change my Windows laptops to WAP and not WEP. Arghhhhh

I'll probably be back on here in a min lol. Cheers everyone!

BigBouncyBall

strange - Apple do support WEP encryption though??

anyway as long as it all works now...

espresso

robert_harper_2000 wrote: »

Hey,

Thanks for all your replies and advice. I phone Apple as I have the 90 days support. I changed it to a WAP PSK or something apparently Apple doesn't particulary like WEP which is less secure an older form of security.

End result. It works! Except I now have to change my Windows laptops to WAP and not WEP. Arghhhhh

I'll probably be back on here in a min lol. Cheers everyone!

You need to change your encryption to WPA-PSK. Get yourself a long random passphrase from here, save it to a notepad file so that you can copy and paste it into your router and then your computers that you want to connect when required.

ormus

robert_harper_2000 wrote: »

Hey,

Thanks for all your replies and advice. I phone Apple as I have the 90 days support. I changed it to a WAP PSK or something apparently Apple doesn't particulary like WEP which is less secure an older form of security.

End result. It works! Except I now have to change my Windows laptops to WAP and not WEP. Arghhhhh

I'll probably be back on here in a min lol. Cheers everyone!

been on the phone to my mate and he told me to see this site.
too late for you now though!
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=108058

isofa

Glad you got it working

WPA is the way to go, WEP is very insecure.

robert_harper_2000

once again thank you. I LOVE iMacs!