BT Voyager 2091 with Linksys Wireless-G USB adapte

I have just moved house and have left good old NTL behind and have
signed up for BT Broadband 3.

I ran the installation disk on my Centrino laptop and connected
straight through, inserting the Wireless Network Name at the
appropriate point. No problems

I have a new Linksys Wireless-G adapter for my desktop computer and
although it gets a good signal from the router, it cannot connect
through.

My problem is that in the set up, I see no place to put the Wireless
Network Name - it has boxes for

Security - I chose Wep
Wep - I chose 128 bit

but then the boxes "pass phrase" and "Wep key 1" are all that is left
and neither seem to equate to the Wireless Network Name BT have
provided me with.

I have searched the net but cannot find an answer here and wonder if
anyone can help me please?

Many thanks

Tom
E Sussex

On 21 Jan 2006 04:52:15 -0800, "(E-Mail Removed)"
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>My problem is that in the set up, I see no place to put the Wireless
>Network Name

is it in "infrastructure" or "ad-hoc" mode ?
does it come with a utility that searches for the available networks,
or use the same from Windows.

which model of adapter.

Phil
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<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>I have just moved house and have left good old NTL behind and have
> signed up for BT Broadband 3.
>
> I ran the installation disk on my Centrino laptop and connected
> straight through, inserting the Wireless Network Name at the
> appropriate point. No problems
>
> I have a new Linksys Wireless-G adapter for my desktop computer and
> although it gets a good signal from the router, it cannot connect
> through.
>
> My problem is that in the set up, I see no place to put the Wireless
> Network Name - it has boxes for
>
> Security - I chose Wep
> Wep - I chose 128 bit
>
> but then the boxes "pass phrase" and "Wep key 1" are all that is left
> and neither seem to equate to the Wireless Network Name BT have
> provided me with.
>
> I have searched the net but cannot find an answer here and wonder if
> anyone can help me please?
>
> Many thanks
>
> Tom
> E Sussex
>
Well you must be mad for wanting to pay two or three times as much for
broadband as other ISPs charge, but that's up to you!
You need to READ the user guide with the supplied equipment as it's quite
obvious you're getting mixed up with user details BT provided and settings
within your router. It doesn't help when others in the group confuse you
further by suggesting things that have nothing to do with the problem -
mainly because they haven't got a clue!

WEP is something that YOU set, nothing to do with BT. You also don't type
in network names. Your computer will detect the wireless network. What
you're best doing is resetting the router completely and deleting the
network connection you have just made on your PC, *READ* the book and then
do the following-

Once the router is reset and network connection deleted from the PC, switch
the router on again. Either Windows or software provided with the PC will
detect the new network. Connect to it and open your Internet Explorer and
type in what the book tells you to, it usually follows a format of
http://192.168.1.1 or similar. Go to the configuration pages and set your
BT user name and password, then move to the wireless settings and fill in a
WEP key of your choice. Once you have saved everything restart the router.
Also restart the PC. When you put the PC back on it will detect a new
network and say it is protected. Click to connect to it and a box will
appear asking for the network key or WEP key - type in exactly what you did
on the configurtion page on the router. *IF* you have put the same thing in
then the PC will connect. That's it. Tell it to connect to that connection
automaticaly.

That must be one of the easiest routers to set up, so I think it's a case of
you not sitting down and having a read of the simple user guide which does
explain the above.

If you don't follow that, give the BT help line a cal and they will go
through it screen by screen and tell you what to type into each box.

Thanks for that.

I moved house and had to take the generic BT offering because I work
from home and couldn't wait an extra week to have BT ADSL the line THEN
another week while Wanadoo or whoever send the broadband stuff.

I've got the network working fine except for this Linksys Wireless G
Adapter. the manual and the set up screens give no place for the SSID
to go - I've scoured the few pages of set up intructions that Linksys
provide but its just too top-level to provide the detail I require.

Never mind, I'll do as you suggest and start again I think.

Cheers, and thanks for your help. Tom

On 22 Jan 2006 01:23:01 -0800, "(E-Mail Removed)"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>I've got the network working fine except for this Linksys Wireless G
>Adapter. the manual and the set up screens give no place for the SSID
>to go - I've scoured the few pages of set up intructions that Linksys
>provide but its just too top-level to provide the detail I require.

do you not get a wireless utility icon in the systray or the windows
equivalent - right mouse this and "search for available networks"

may have to install software from CD before installing USB adapter to
get the Linksys utility.

normally I just pick the right SSID from what it finds, and never
enter it anywhere.

Phil
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Thanks Phil - I've uninstalled, rebooted, installed, found the place to
put the SSID, but it still doesn't connect. ho hum. I've worked in IT
for 30 years but this one beats me. Its not the "RTFM" problem - I've
googled away for about an hour too.

Back to the drawing board I think. But I've just found out there's a
BT openworld newsgroup so maybe i'll post there and see what happens.

Tom

On 22 Jan 2006 13:39:54 -0800, "(E-Mail Removed)"
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> I've uninstalled, rebooted, installed, found the place to
>put the SSID, but it still doesn't connect.

does the Linksys utility find the BT thing with its site survey
utility ?

Phil
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