Wireless network help?

Hopefully your computer will auto remember the passkey.

 

That's an option that has to be selected... but yes, it can.

 

Have you tried using your parent's computer to get into 192.168.1.1 using blank (nothing at all) as the username and admin as the password as FranchiseFan suggested?

There are a number of things that you can configure within the router itself which can prevent connections. For example, you can limit the number of IP addresses that get passed out. You can test this without going into the router by shutting down your folks computer and then trying to connect.

Also, within the router you can specify specific computers that can access it. In addition, you can set up encryption. It would help you tremendously if you can get see how the router is configred via your parents computer.

 

Im wrong about the mac address because if that was an issue he wouldn't be able to connect to the router. Im stumped.

 

Another thing. Go to Start->settings->control panel. Click on "network connections". Right-click on your network connection and select "properties". Scroll down to TCP/IP, select it and click "properties". Make sure that the boxes to "Obtain IP..." and "Obtain DNS..." are checked. Click on "advanced" and I suspect it should read "DHCP Enabled" in the IP box.

 

Exactly....what he said !

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Have you tried the Wi-Fi Speed Spray? I hear it works wonders!

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LOL! Thats great.

 

If you can't access Linksys' Web Administration from your parents' computer at 192.168.1.1, that means that either:
a.) someone changed the default addy
b.) wireless management has been disabled

To find out which one it is ...
Start -> Run -> "cmd" -> [ok] -> "ipconfig"
The default gateway is the router's addy. If it's 192.168.1.1, then b from above probably applies.

Now if it's different go to the addy and try blank user and admini pw (chances are that if someone changed the default addy... they changed the password)

The easiest thing to do is to rust reset the router (one the back there's a small convexed button, use a pen/paperclip to press it till lights on the front of the router start to blink. Once reset the web administration would be 192.168.1.1.

Also go back onto your computer and change everything to automatic (in the TCP/IP settings), you shouldn't need to use a static IP for just surfing.

...Just to get something clear when you go to 192.168.1.1, a login screen doesn't pop up?

 

Get information on the web for a "hard reset" that will reset the password back to the default then you will be able to login.

 

Try user=="admin" && password=="admin"

Default on most models are use =="" && password=="admin"

... you can always reset (mentioned above)... When/if you change the password (if you do reset) be sure to write it down and put it in an obvious place (under the router). The "dangerous" thing is the someone can use administer the router over the internet if they have your ip (from your isp) and you don't change default password...

 

Just hitting the reset button will reset the router and it will keep all your settings and nothing will really change. When you do a hard reset then it wipes out the old information and then will give you the abilit to log back in.

 

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