WPA to secure my simple network

I do appreciate your patience. I have a high speed DSL service. Here is my
setup:

I have a Dell desktop with Windows XP, a new Dell Truemobile 2300 router, a
Dell laptop with a new Dell Truemobile 1300 card (both are WPA compliant). I
have updated both machines with the appropriate Windows wi-fi update.

Our family can surf the internet on both machines when the network is
*unsecured*.

When I enable security using WPA all seems well (I think) i.e. laptop
taskbar shows "Connected to:.....and signal strength good/excellent"

And when I do a Network Diagnostics using the 2300 router it shows a PASS
for network connectivity and connection status is OK for both the wired and
wireless Hosts.

I can still internet on the wired host but now not on the wireless laptop. I
am missing something obvious?

--
Doug Mitchell (jmjm at sympatico dot ca)

First, after connecting to the router, open up a command prompt
(start->run...->"cmd") and then type "ipconfig /all" to see if DHCP on the
router is working. You may want to try to use 128-bit WEP encryption to see
if that works; it's not nearly as strong as WPA but it's been around longer
and now works well on just about all wireless devices (and you need to use
some form of encryption). Also, check Dell to see if there are any driver
updates for the card and firmware updates for the router.

Finally, when putting the router into WPA/WEP/unencrypted modes, give it a
different SSID at the same time. This makes things a bit easier with XP's
WZC since it will remember the settings for each condition and you do not
have to reenter long keys or passphrases.

-Yves

"Doug Mitchell" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I do appreciate your patience. I have a high speed DSL service. Here is my
> setup:
>
> I have a Dell desktop with Windows XP, a new Dell Truemobile 2300 router,
a
> Dell laptop with a new Dell Truemobile 1300 card (both are WPA compliant).
I
> have updated both machines with the appropriate Windows wi-fi update.
>
> Our family can surf the internet on both machines when the network is
> *unsecured*.
>
> When I enable security using WPA all seems well (I think) i.e. laptop
> taskbar shows "Connected to:.....and signal strength good/excellent"
>
> And when I do a Network Diagnostics using the 2300 router it shows a PASS
> for network connectivity and connection status is OK for both the wired
and
> wireless Hosts.
>
> I can still internet on the wired host but now not on the wireless laptop.
I
> am missing something obvious?
>
> --
> Doug Mitchell (jmjm at sympatico dot ca)
>
>
>