Concerning Wireless Networking

19 Aug 2006 6:45 PM

Jake

Hello,

I'm having problems setting up a wireless network in my home. I have
configured the router such that:
-Authentication Type is :Shared Key
-Encryption is WPA-Pre Shared Key
-WPA Unicast Cipher Suite is WPA2 (AES)
-Key format is Passphrase
-Actual key is 63 alphanumeric characters

When I try to set up wireless on my laptop, it fails. In the windows
wireless connections manager, I selected properties of my wireless
signal, and changed the "Network Authentication" to WPA-PSK, the data
encryption to "AES", and the network key to my typed key. I am 100%
sure I typed it correctly. When I then proceeded to try to connect, it
didn't do anything. I went back into the properties and found windows
had wiped all my information! (ie - Network Authentication was set to
Open, encryption set to "WEP", and an 8 character password was there.)
I know this happened after I tried to connect, because before I tried
to connect, I verified that the information I had typed was saved. This
is so frustrating! It took me awhile to type that 63 character key
twice, and it just erases it.
I have no clue what is going on...any insight or help would be much
appreciated.

Thanks

20 Aug 2006 2:23 AM

Jim

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"Jake" <jsheppar***@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1156013116.068132.253510@h48g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
> Hello,
>
> I'm having problems setting up a wireless network in my home. I have
> configured the router such that:
> -Authentication Type is :Shared Key
> -Encryption is WPA-Pre Shared Key
> -WPA Unicast Cipher Suite is WPA2 (AES)
> -Key format is Passphrase
> -Actual key is 63 alphanumeric characters
>
> When I try to set up wireless on my laptop, it fails. In the windows
> wireless connections manager, I selected properties of my wireless
> signal, and changed the "Network Authentication" to WPA-PSK, the data
> encryption to "AES", and the network key to my typed key. I am 100%
> sure I typed it correctly. When I then proceeded to try to connect, it
> didn't do anything. I went back into the properties and found windows
> had wiped all my information! (ie - Network Authentication was set to
> Open, encryption set to "WEP", and an 8 character password was there.)
> I know this happened after I tried to connect, because before I tried
> to connect, I verified that the information I had typed was saved. This
> is so frustrating! It took me awhile to type that 63 character key
> twice, and it just erases it.
> I have no clue what is going on...any insight or help would be much
> appreciated.
>
> Thanks
>

I was 100% sure that I entered the encryption key as well every time I
entered it. It can be extremely difficult to get the key exactly correct,
but an incorrect key will definitely kill the connection.
Jim

20 Aug 2006 3:00 AM

Jake

The thing is, I saved it to a text file, and used a USB thumb drive to
copy+paste the key in. So it wasn't the problem. I actually figured out
my problem. To help those with similar problems, all I did was download
a Windows XP Hotfix (KB 893357), install it, and everything worked!

Thanks for your response, though, Jim.

Jim wrote:
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> "Jake" <jsheppar***@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1156013116.068132.253510@h48g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm having problems setting up a wireless network in my home. I have
> > configured the router such that:
> > -Authentication Type is :Shared Key
> > -Encryption is WPA-Pre Shared Key
> > -WPA Unicast Cipher Suite is WPA2 (AES)
> > -Key format is Passphrase
> > -Actual key is 63 alphanumeric characters
> >
> > When I try to set up wireless on my laptop, it fails. In the windows
> > wireless connections manager, I selected properties of my wireless
> > signal, and changed the "Network Authentication" to WPA-PSK, the data
> > encryption to "AES", and the network key to my typed key. I am 100%
> > sure I typed it correctly. When I then proceeded to try to connect, it
> > didn't do anything. I went back into the properties and found windows
> > had wiped all my information! (ie - Network Authentication was set to
> > Open, encryption set to "WEP", and an 8 character password was there.)
> > I know this happened after I tried to connect, because before I tried
> > to connect, I verified that the information I had typed was saved. This
> > is so frustrating! It took me awhile to type that 63 character key
> > twice, and it just erases it.
> > I have no clue what is going on...any insight or help would be much
> > appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> I was 100% sure that I entered the encryption key as well every time I
> entered it. It can be extremely difficult to get the key exactly correct,
> but an incorrect key will definitely kill the connection.
> Jim