wireless and a ds?

lottyxx

mustbemad wrote: »

Hi Lotty, are you using xp or vista?

if you are using xp you need to right click your little computer, right click 'open network connections' then, right click your wireless network icon and choose properties. You should see a box and hopefully wireless network will be on of the tabs. click on any networks you dont use in the preferred networks list including your SKY one and then click on the remove button that pops up underneath, click 'okay'

Now you need to right click your little computer near the clock again and choose 'view available wireless network' once you see your sky one, click on it and press connect, enter your WEP key when prompted.

If you are using Vista, right click your little computer, choose manage wireless networks from the list on the left hand side. Click on each network you dont use including your sky one and remove them.

then, right click your little computer and choose 'connect to a network' and enter your WEP key when prompted.

WEP is not very secure, you might want to look at the idea that the PP had about the usb dongle

sorry for the essay, hope you can follow my ramble okay

MBM x

thanks for your help but the problem is connecting the ds with the current wpa key it does not seem to like it i was trying to change the router page to
wep as i know that works with the ds.

mustbemad

for some reason ds doesnt support wpa :sad: The instructions i typed before will get rid of those red crosses you were getting when you change your encryption to WEP

MBM x

BillScarab

You said you tried generating a WEP key on the router, you need to put int he same WEP key that is set on your DS.

Apologies if this is what you did and I am just misreading it.

As others have said the DS cannot use WPA so you will have to use WEP on your router if you wnat to connect your DS to it.

lottyxx

BillScarab wrote: »

You said you tried generating a WEP key on the router, you need to put int he same WEP key that is set on your DS.

Apologies if this is what you did and I am just misreading it.

As others have said the DS cannot use WPA so you will have to use WEP on your router if you wnat to connect your DS to it.

yes thanks thats the problem im trying to change the router setting to wep ,im with sky and it does not seem to like wep. i was with aol before and used wep and the ds worked fine.

geewhiz

When I got a DS I changed the sky router to WEP and had some problems but did get it to work, decided that using WEP wasn't worth it just to get the DS online so changed back to WPA and don't use the DS online now !