allowing access to an orange router

Asking for a friend. He has the Orange Livebox router combo, which
works fine. He runs a Gite in France and had a visitor ask if they
could use his wireless router whilst they were there. He didn't mind,
so they set about trying to get their laptop access to the router, to
no avail. The laptop can see the livebox, with good signal strength,
and he's turned off the firewall etc, but no access. To confuse
matters, the Livebox has some software and a key which should be
installed on any machine that connects to it. This works OK, but we
want visitors to be able to connect to the router without installing
additional software on their computers. Does anyone know if this is
doable? Many thanks.

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Regards, Danny

http://www.gaggia-espresso.com (a purely hobby site)
(apparently bad grammar but I like it that way...)

On Mon, 09 Jul 2007 18:35:40 +0100, Danny
<(E-Mail Removed)> mused:

>Asking for a friend. He has the Orange Livebox router combo, which
>works fine. He runs a Gite in France and had a visitor ask if they
>could use his wireless router whilst they were there. He didn't mind,
>so they set about trying to get their laptop access to the router, to
>no avail. The laptop can see the livebox, with good signal strength,
>and he's turned off the firewall etc, but no access. To confuse
>matters, the Livebox has some software and a key which should be
>installed on any machine that connects to it. This works OK, but we
>want visitors to be able to connect to the router without installing
>additional software on their computers. Does anyone know if this is
>doable? Many thanks.

Unless you are connecting to a router or access point via USB you
generally won't need any software installing, the only reason supliers
of equipment give you a CD is to rebrand IE as supplied by them.

All you need is the WEP key, which IIRC is on the back of the router.
The Livebox though, being a heap of crap, does some sort of dual
security which confuses some utilites\OS's.
--
Regards,
Stuart.

Lurch wrote:

> Unless you are connecting to a router or access point via USB you
> generally won't need any software installing, the only reason supliers
> of equipment give you a CD is to rebrand IE as supplied by them.
>
> All you need is the WEP key, which IIRC is on the back of the router.
> The Livebox though, being a heap of crap, does some sort of dual
> security which confuses some utilites\OS's.

Thanks, I'll pass it on...


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Regards, Danny

http://www.gaggia-espresso.com (a purely hobby site)
(apparently bad grammar but I like it that way...)

On Mon, 09 Jul 2007 19:38:31 +0100, Lurch
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>All you need is the WEP key, which IIRC is on the back of the router.
>The Livebox though, being a heap of crap, does some sort of dual
>security which confuses some utilites\OS's.

It has a button on the side which opens access to a new wireless
connection for 10 minutes while it stores the new machine's mac code.

AJH

On Mon, 09 Jul 2007 21:31:14 +0100, AJH <(E-Mail Removed)>
mused:

>On Mon, 09 Jul 2007 19:38:31 +0100, Lurch
><(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>>All you need is the WEP key, which IIRC is on the back of the router.
>>The Livebox though, being a heap of crap, does some sort of dual
>>security which confuses some utilites\OS's.
>
>It has a button on the side which opens access to a new wireless
>connection for 10 minutes while it stores the new machine's mac code.
>
I don't ever remember having to do that.
--
Regards,
Stuart.

(E-Mail Removed) declared for all the world to hear...
> Asking for a friend. He has the Orange Livebox router combo, which
> works fine. He runs a Gite in France and had a visitor ask if they
> could use his wireless router whilst they were there. He didn't mind,
> so they set about trying to get their laptop access to the router, to
> no avail. The laptop can see the livebox, with good signal strength,
> and he's turned off the firewall etc, but no access. To confuse
> matters, the Livebox has some software and a key which should be
> installed on any machine that connects to it. This works OK, but we
> want visitors to be able to connect to the router without installing
> additional software on their computers. Does anyone know if this is
> doable? Many thanks.

There is no software required, the WEP key is printed on the box itself.
Visitors should turn on their wifi and enter the WEP key when prompted.
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Regards
Jon

(E-Mail Removed) declared for all the world to hear...
> On Mon, 09 Jul 2007 21:31:14 +0100, AJH <(E-Mail Removed)>
> mused:
>
> >On Mon, 09 Jul 2007 19:38:31 +0100, Lurch
> ><(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> >
> >>All you need is the WEP key, which IIRC is on the back of the router.
> >>The Livebox though, being a heap of crap, does some sort of dual
> >>security which confuses some utilites\OS's.
> >
> >It has a button on the side which opens access to a new wireless
> >connection for 10 minutes while it stores the new machine's mac code.
> >
> I don't ever remember having to do that.

SOmeloveboxes have it, some don't.
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Regards
Jon

Lurch wrote:
> On Mon, 09 Jul 2007 21:31:14 +0100, AJH <(E-Mail Removed)>
> mused:
>
>> On Mon, 09 Jul 2007 19:38:31 +0100, Lurch
>> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>>
>>> All you need is the WEP key, which IIRC is on the back of the router.
>>> The Livebox though, being a heap of crap, does some sort of dual
>>> security which confuses some utilites\OS's.
>>
>> It has a button on the side which opens access to a new wireless
>> connection for 10 minutes while it stores the new machine's mac code.
>>
> I don't ever remember having to do that.

Yes, this catches people out a few times....

Also, Livebox initially broadcasts both a wep and wpa signal, and negotiates
connection on the highest encryption it can. This works fine with wireless
devices that are used to such a situation, but I have found that the windows
zero config utility and several others are sometimes incapable of
connecting.

Log into the router, and change the security to wep or wpa from wep and wpa.

Gaz