sky broadband wireless setup help!?

jem16

ds1980 wrote: »

no they wont help me if i dont. There must be 1000's of people without sky adaptors that get wireless sky broadband! THis is annoying me now!

Could you start by explaining here exactly what you have done, step by step?

sco0ter

Is it the new V2 router you have??? Sky broadband comes encrypted straight from the box did you enter the key into your laptop??

ds1980

no think its netgear one

andyg9053

had the same problem, for months used a wire then contacted sky. they emailed the following and it was easy to do and worked first time. good luck.




It may be possible to improve
the quality of your wireless connection by switching which
channel
your Sky Broadband Box is broadcasting on. This can be done by
the
following steps:-



*
Type 192.168.0.1 in your
web browser


*
The username is admin


*
The password is sky


*
Now select Wireless Settings
this is located at the top of the dark blue column on the
left hand
side of the screen


*
Scroll down in the central
white section you should see the label Channel


*
Next to this is a drop down
box with a list of the available channels. We recommend that
you
choose channel 2, 6 or 11


*
At the bottom of this
screen is a button labelled Apply if you select this it will
save
your settings.

jem16

ds1980 wrote: »

no think its netgear one

It still requires a password key - have you used this?

ds1980

might have found my problem can't remember how i got past this before?

Have instaLLED again with new router that sky sent me. (got one spare if someone wants it!)

Went to connect and asked for network key tyoped in upper and lower case letters the key i received on the card from sky but got the following

network password needs to be 40 bits or 104bits depending on network configuration. This can be entered as a 5 or 13 ascii characters or 10 or 26 hexadecimal characters.

My network key is 8 capital letters

any advice?

ps like at who wants to be a milllionaire the questions are only easy if you know the answer!

espresso

ds1980 wrote: »

might have found my problem can't remember how i got past this before?

Have instaLLED again with new router that sky sent me. (got one spare if someone wants it!)

Went to connect and asked for network key tyoped in upper and lower case letters the key i received on the card from sky but got the following

network password needs to be 40 bits or 104bits depending on network configuration. This can be entered as a 5 or 13 ascii characters or 10 or 26 hexadecimal characters.

My network key is 8 capital letters

any advice?

ps like at who wants to be a milllionaire the questions are only easy if you know the answer!

You seem to be saying that you have a network key on a piece of card and another one that is 8 capital letters!

If this is WEP you should log into the router as shown in the link in post #4 and change the encryption to WPA-PSK (right at the bottom of the page) Whatever key you enter here, enter into your laptop. It's as easy as that.

ds1980

no ive typed in the key on the card from sky but it doesn't work? This is 8 capital letters but from what the error message says that doesn't fir into what is requireD?


will try what you say

ta

ds1980

espresso wrote: »

You seem to be saying that you have a network key on a piece of card and another one that is 8 capital letters!

If this is WEP you should log into the router as shown in the link in post #4 and change the encryption to WPA-PSK (right at the bottom of the page) Whatever key you enter here, enter into your laptop. It's as easy as that.

WEP?

have checked settings and they are on WPA-PSK the key that i am meant to enter is already written in the box at the bottom? Am i missing something now?

ds1980

my settings is set to g and b should it me 108 auto 108