Wireless router

I have a Livebox wireless broadband router.

Computer 1 will automatically detect and connect to the Livebox - but it
will not detect other active routers.

Computer 2 will detect but not connect (automatically or manually) to the
Livebox. However it will detect other active broadband routers and
(manually) connect to one which is not secured. Yes the WEP code has been
typed in.

I can't seem to resolve these inconsistencies.

How do you swap between automatic and manual connection?

How do you choose to see a list of routers within range?

Thanks.

Bill Ridgeway

So maybe they scan different bands ( B/G or A ),
or channel sets. The latter can be enforced by the netcard vendor.

If Computer 1 runs a wireless utility of the netcard vendor, it may
disable WZC, this can explain why it does not see other routers.

Regards,
--PA

(followback to microsoft.public.windows.networking.wireless)


"Bill Ridgeway" <info@1001solutions.co.uk> wrote in message
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> I have a Livebox wireless broadband router.
>
> Computer 1 will automatically detect and connect to the Livebox - but it
> will not detect other active routers.
>
> Computer 2 will detect but not connect (automatically or manually) to the
> Livebox. However it will detect other active broadband routers and
> (manually) connect to one which is not secured. Yes the WEP code has been
> typed in.
>
> I can't seem to resolve these inconsistencies.
>
> How do you swap between automatic and manual connection?
>
> How do you choose to see a list of routers within range?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Bill Ridgeway
>

Not much to go on in your post !

I'm wondering if you have, or have had, at least one computer connected to
the Livebox (Inventel model ?)
with a rj45 (LAN/ethernet) lead so that you can access your Livebox firmware
menus, (using Internet Explorer - 192.168.1.1) ? ...and stored your ISP
"user account name" and password in there, ...and made the correct adsl
settings ?

I'm guessing you're struggling with Wireless G here ?
What sort of arial / wi-fi receiver is your "computer 1" using ?
....and the other one come to that.

....correct and matching settings in Livebox and Wi-Fi-receiving computer/s
"wireless connection/s" are everything,
DHCP enabled in Livebox ?
Double checked that the Security key (WPA-TKIP) match up in Livebox and
receiving PC, i.e. not using a letter "O" instead of a zero somewhere ?
...best to use WPA (pre-shared key) btw, ...WEP is much less secure.
....and that both the wireless router and recieving PC are both using exactly
the same encryption specification ? Labels for these can differ yet be the
same type !

Channel No. match in Livebox and receiving PC ?

"How do you swap between automatic and manual connection?"
...Once you've successfully wirelessly connected a PC to your
Livebox, unless
you manually terminate the connection - it should automatically establish a
connection, the next time you switch on the PC. I can't remember having to
change anything or select anything along the lines of "Connect
automatically," to get Dads' PC to connect.

"How do you choose to see a list of routers within range?"
....can't remember unless I go into the house and switch on Dads' PC, ...I
think you dig into the properties of the wi-fi connection in system tray and
"refresh" the list of wi-fi/routers in range.

....the more I ramble on, the more I think that you need describe a little
more what you've tried, and describe your hardware, and how it's currently
set up, a little more !

regards, Richard


"Bill Ridgeway" <info@1001solutions.co.uk> wrote in message
news:%23EWflM34IHA.4908@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>I have a Livebox wireless broadband router.
>
> Computer 1 will automatically detect and connect to the Livebox - but it
> will not detect other active routers.
>
> Computer 2 will detect but not connect (automatically or manually) to the
> Livebox. However it will detect other active broadband routers and
> (manually) connect to one which is not secured. Yes the WEP code has been
> typed in.
>
> I can't seem to resolve these inconsistencies.
>
> How do you swap between automatic and manual connection?
>
> How do you choose to see a list of routers within range?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Bill Ridgeway
>

....just visited your www.1001solutions.co.uk ...
....."installing and supporting networks"...
....and you're asking in here ? ;-)

regards, Richard


"RJK" <nospam@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Not much to go on in your post !
>
> I'm wondering if you have, or have had, at least one computer connected to
> the Livebox (Inventel model ?)
> with a rj45 (LAN/ethernet) lead so that you can access your Livebox
> firmware
> menus, (using Internet Explorer - 192.168.1.1) ? ...and stored your ISP
> "user account name" and password in there, ...and made the correct adsl
> settings ?
>
> I'm guessing you're struggling with Wireless G here ?
> What sort of arial / wi-fi receiver is your "computer 1" using ?
> ...and the other one come to that.
>
> ...correct and matching settings in Livebox and Wi-Fi-receiving computer/s
> "wireless connection/s" are everything,
> DHCP enabled in Livebox ?
> Double checked that the Security key (WPA-TKIP) match up in Livebox and
> receiving PC, i.e. not using a letter "O" instead of a zero somewhere ?
> ...best to use WPA (pre-shared key) btw, ...WEP is much less secure.
> ...and that both the wireless router and recieving PC are both using
> exactly the same encryption specification ? Labels for these can differ
> yet be the same type !
>
> Channel No. match in Livebox and receiving PC ?
>
> "How do you swap between automatic and manual connection?"
> ...Once you've successfully wirelessly connected a PC to your
> Livebox, unless
> you manually terminate the connection - it should automatically establish
> a
> connection, the next time you switch on the PC. I can't remember having
> to change anything or select anything along the lines of "Connect
> automatically," to get Dads' PC to connect.
>
> "How do you choose to see a list of routers within range?"
> ...can't remember unless I go into the house and switch on Dads' PC, ...I
> think you dig into the properties of the wi-fi connection in system tray
> and
> "refresh" the list of wi-fi/routers in range.
>
> ...the more I ramble on, the more I think that you need describe a little
> more what you've tried, and describe your hardware, and how it's currently
> set up, a little more !
>
> regards, Richard
>
>
> "Bill Ridgeway" <info@1001solutions.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:%23EWflM34IHA.4908@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>>I have a Livebox wireless broadband router.
>>
>> Computer 1 will automatically detect and connect to the Livebox - but it
>> will not detect other active routers.
>>
>> Computer 2 will detect but not connect (automatically or manually) to the
>> Livebox. However it will detect other active broadband routers and
>> (manually) connect to one which is not secured. Yes the WEP code has
>> been
>> typed in.
>>
>> I can't seem to resolve these inconsistencies.
>>
>> How do you swap between automatic and manual connection?
>>
>> How do you choose to see a list of routers within range?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Bill Ridgeway
>>
>
>
>

On Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:28:26 +0100, "Bill Ridgeway"
<info@1001solutions.co.uk> wrote:

>I have a Livebox wireless broadband router.
>
>Computer 1 will automatically detect and connect to the Livebox - but it
>will not detect other active routers.
>
>Computer 2 will detect but not connect (automatically or manually) to the
>Livebox. However it will detect other active broadband routers and
>(manually) connect to one which is not secured. Yes the WEP code has been
>typed in.
>
>I can't seem to resolve these inconsistencies.
>
>How do you swap between automatic and manual connection?
>
>How do you choose to see a list of routers within range?
>
>Thanks.
>
>Bill Ridgeway
>
Why ask HERE? What does this have to do with XP? NOTHING.

Ask elsewhere

Do I claim to know everything about the subject? Do you know everything
about the subject? What is this NG for if not raise questions about
problems and learning from other peoples experience?

Regards.

Bill Ridgeway

"RJK" <nospam@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:ei0e8%2364IHA.4352@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> ...just visited your www.1001solutions.co.uk ...
> ...."installing and supporting networks"...
> ...and you're asking in here ? ;-)
>
> regards, Richard

Edric wrote <<Why ask HERE? What does this have to do with XP? NOTHING.>>

The wireless router works with the XP operating system. You haven't
criticised Jo-Anne who has also raised a wireless router question on this
NG!!

Bill Ridgeway

You're quite right ! ... I simply asked a question as well, ...didn't intend
to offend !

regards, Richard


"Bill Ridgeway" <info@1001solutions.co.uk> wrote in message
news:eWeeJV$4IHA.4908@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> Do I claim to know everything about the subject? Do you know everything
> about the subject? What is this NG for if not raise questions about
> problems and learning from other peoples experience?
>
> Regards.
>
> Bill Ridgeway
>
> "RJK" <nospam@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:ei0e8%2364IHA.4352@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>> ...just visited your www.1001solutions.co.uk ...
>> ...."installing and supporting networks"...
>> ...and you're asking in here ? ;-)
>>
>> regards, Richard
>
>

....now, now ...stop biting ! ...there are lots who have nothing better to
do other than trawl through NG's yelling OT !!!

regards, Richard

....anyhoo, back to the issue at hand ....in your OP, HOW are you getting on
with your Livebox ?

I've used a Livebox, (and had several serious fights with it), for a couple
of years ...or more. I found the wireless part in Livebox to be not very
reliable, and ended up switching off wireless in the Livebox, and connecting
a Linksys WAG354G (adsl modem/router/wireless) with a hard plastic ariel,
(that came with a WMP54G pci card on it), - to act as a dumb router. (I
added a high-gain arial to the WMP54G wifi/pci network card) Livebox had
to stay positioned as the "front" router in order to retain the Orange
"free" VOIP local telephone calls.

The software that came with the Linksys WMP54G pci card, (fitted into Dads'
PC in the house), was also not very good, (the updated software for it from
Linksys was just as bad), and the only way I could get that PC, with WMP54G
in it, to reliably connect to the Livebox/WAG354G (out in my office), was
to change the settings in the WMP54G XP network connection to use Windows
XP wifi, and not the dreadful Linksys stuff.

The WMP54G card would only intermittently connect to the Livebox, and even
after fitting WAG354G out in the office, WMP54G would again, only
intermittently connect to the WAG354G if the wireless connection was being
handled in the Linksys software. Once that was tweaked to "Let Windows XP
handle the connection," it was much more reliable.

I suspect that at least part of your problem/s is that even when you have
the correct settings, Livebox could be ignoring PC that are trying to
connect.
....this caused me a LOT of wasted time - a couple of years ago. i.e. you
need to be on the "alert" for that.

anyhooo, that was a little from my experience of the Livebox !

regards, Richard


"Bill Ridgeway" <info@1001solutions.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Edric wrote <<Why ask HERE? What does this have to do with XP?
> NOTHING.>>
>
> The wireless router works with the XP operating system. You haven't
> criticised Jo-Anne who has also raised a wireless router question on this
> NG!!
>
> Bill Ridgeway
>

"Bill Ridgeway" <info@1001solutions.co.uk> wrote in message
news:u1Ap6i$4IHA.5012@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> Edric wrote <<Why ask HERE? What does this have to do with XP?
> NOTHING.>>
>
> The wireless router works with the XP operating system. You haven't
> criticised Jo-Anne who has also raised a wireless router question on this
> NG!!
>

He's a troll. His schtick is to blow through various MS groups posting the
same thing. In this group he's the fly that won't stay out of the chip dip
at the weekend picnic.