Or a "reset" would enable you do log into the router by default username and password, which can be obtained by Googling "user manual" and your router type
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| Author: | Magoo=GCHQ= [ Fri May 12, 2006 4:28 pm ] |
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Please can someone help... I have a 3com router from old compnay but forgot to hand it back.... I hav a new laptop which is asking for the WEP key to connect, so far I cannot find this key. Any ideas where this key can be found ? Thanks in advance.. |
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| Author: | Kalyzdar [ Fri May 12, 2006 4:30 pm ] |
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I think it's a 'password' that your company would have assigned to it... |
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| Author: | Magoo=GCHQ= [ Fri May 12, 2006 4:32 pm ] |
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I just need to find out what that is..... |
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| Author: | Kalyzdar [ Fri May 12, 2006 4:35 pm ] |
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Hmm....ask an employee at the company? Apart from that, don't know. Sorry. |
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| Author: | gemma=GCHQ= [ Fri May 12, 2006 4:35 pm ] |
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I believe you should connect to the router with a good old fashioned cat V cable. Then you can log onto it using a web browser by typing in the ip address (Perhaps 192.168.1.1) then enter the username (prolly "root") and password (prolly <blank> hopefully). Then go to the section for wireless and set the WEP key to whatever you want. The WEP key is use for encrypting the wireless traffic not for access control. I hope you can manage to log onto it if not search the webby for a manual maybe you can hard reset it or find infor on the defaults (user name, ip address etc). Good luck. |
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| Author: | 3jorn [ Fri May 12, 2006 4:36 pm ] |
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Or a "reset" would enable you do log into the router by default username and password, which can be obtained by Googling "user manual" and your router type
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| Author: | Magoo=GCHQ= [ Fri May 12, 2006 4:38 pm ] |
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im confused.. |
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| Author: | gemma=GCHQ= [ Fri May 12, 2006 4:52 pm ] |
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Magoo=GCHQ= wrote: im confused..
Oh Dear. Umm WEP is only used for wireless traffic so if you can use the router without wireless just for a short time then do so. I think finding the Manual and performing the reset is a great start. |
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| Author: | Magoo=GCHQ= [ Fri May 12, 2006 4:53 pm ] |
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didnt come with a manual.......lol.....red hot.... |
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| Author: | 3jorn [ Fri May 12, 2006 5:14 pm ] |
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lol, google the router name and "user manual" there will probably be a user manual in PDF that shows you how to reset it and supply you with the default login after it's been reset. Or call up your brother and tell him you have a suprise for him 
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| Author: | Mike=GCHQ= [ Fri May 12, 2006 5:16 pm ] |
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i suggest also mac address instead? kind of easier than wep |
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| Author: | wAsh [ Fri May 12, 2006 5:18 pm ] |
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3jorn=GCHQ= wrote: Or call up your brother and tell him you have a suprise for him That's how most of his stuff gets fixed!
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| Author: | 3jorn [ Fri May 12, 2006 5:38 pm ] |
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wAsh wrote: 3jorn=GCHQ= wrote: Or call up your brother and tell him you have a suprise for him That's how most of his stuff gets fixed! hehehe, that's what brothers are for 
now, where's mine, I have a car that needs washing
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| Author: | Arma [ Sat May 13, 2006 5:34 pm ] |
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You can download the manual for the router from http://www.3com.com Wep is an acronym for Wireless Encryption Protocol. It basically wraps your ip packets in an encypted wrapper, sends them to the router which then takes of the wrapper and sends them out on the internet (naked!). WEP works thus, you tell the router a random phrase which it uses to generate the wep key. Then you put the wep key in the properties of your wireless adaptor and hey presto continuous protection (from packet sniffers (perverts!)). If you reset the router you will have to enter your own random word into the router to enable wireless security. (you could always try the default password for the router (which is usualy http://your-default-route-ip/ , which you can gain from doing an 'ipconfig /all' in your cmd box). GL + HF :D
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| Author: | Chris|Gramps [ Tue May 16, 2006 10:41 am ] |
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Most routers have the default wep key for that router printed on the label, same place for the mac address etc. |
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