Disable security

Hi

I've forgotten my network key and need to hook another computer up to the
net. I understand the easiest thing for me to do would be to disable
security and reset the password again. How do I disable security? I have XP.

"Chad" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:68B28956-8321-47A6-AF57-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hi
>
> I've forgotten my network key and need to hook another computer up to the
> net. I understand the easiest thing for me to do would be to disable
> security and reset the password again. How do I disable security? I have
> XP.

Don't disable security...

Create a new wireless encryption key, etc and add the new PC. I recommend
using Windows Connect Now (WCN) and saving off the wireless configuration on
a flash drive. You can then quite easily add new clients. Links here...

http://theillustratednetwork.mvps.or...sSecurity.html

Remember the new wireless encryption key needs to be changed on your router
(check your users manual for help with that) and all wireless clients. The
encryption type (ie. WPA2/WPA) and key need to match on all the clients and
the router.

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Chad wrote:
> Hi
>
> I've forgotten my network key and need to hook another computer up to the
> net. I understand the easiest thing for me to do would be to disable
> security and reset the password again. How do I disable security? I have XP.

Security of your wifi network is configured on your router.

To change or disable the encryption key for your wifi network, access
your router's configuration utility using a computer connected to it
with an Ethernet cable. If you changed the username for access to the
router's configuration utility, or set a password for it, you will
either have to enter that userid/password or reset the router to its
defaults using the reset button on the back of the router and then use
the default userid/password.

Read your router's user manual for details.

Note that in many routers, the encryption key may actually be available
in "clear" once you access the appropriate part of the router's
configuration utility, so that you may, in fact, not have to change it
(which will save you the effort of re-configuring all of the other
computers that access your network).

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