Why did you choose to install the nearly non-secure WEP encryption instead of the much more secure WPA encryption? 

In order to help you, it would be very very useful to know which version of Windows you are running on your laptop and which wireless utility you are using (Windows, the Dell Utility, or the Intel ProSet Utility.

Steve

Volcano, yes i realised it after reading a bit more about it, i tried to get back but i cannot get any further than basic setup in router, i guess i will have to reset to factory setup and restart the setup with WPA.

I have Vista premium,Dell inspiron 1521 and i am using Network Magic (bought) I am a beta tester for this program also.

Normaly i am prety sharp even at 66 yo , i have been using the internet since before the WWW but i am not very knowlagable about network.

Claude

Hi all,

I am using wap now, When i go in my router config (netgear) i go to advance setting and adding a device when i add a name and mac code (the one i found in my laptop) it tells me that i have an invalid mac adress i have tried different things all day with still no success.

What i find strange when i first went in adding devices i had 3 adress one was the adress i have for my laptop but i removed all 3 and now it says that my mac adress is invalid when it was there before.

For jmwills,

I disconnected the wire coming from the router in my pc and connected it to my laptop but for some reason i dont connect to the internet to access my router?????

I don't know what to do anymore apart from paying $75 for tech help from netgear.

Claude

You need to reboot that laptop if you pulled the cable out of the PC and put it straight into the laptop.

Why do you need to put the MAC address in the router?  MAC filtering doesl ittle for security and causes connection problems.

Power down everything with a cable form the router plugged into the laptop.  Power up the modem, router, and laptop in that order waiting about 3 minutes in bewteen each.

Run an ipconfig /all and post the results here.

Hi all,

I finaly managed to install the mac adress of my laptop in the router(advance setting), i added it and confirmed it but when i tried to connect still no connection to the laptop, what do i have to do next??.

jnwills, i disconected from the back of pc and connected the wire to the laptop, rebooted with no luck, i used network magic to repair a direct connection with no luck also.

Claude

jmwills, I put in the mac adress because from reading instructions i had to add all mac adresses of the different portables in the network.

Just a reminder that everything was working fine until i installed incryption (wpa now)

I will do what you suggest and get back to you, btw my modem is cable with telephone, but that should not have anything to do with the actual problem.

Thank for your patience......Claude

Thanks for all the help i will do that, but that is what i had before intalling wap, to make my network secure but it keeps my laptop out also.

That is what i was trying to do, just add my laptop to the secured wap network.

Claude