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Old 11-12-2005, 03:49 AM
     
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Why can't I get my wi-fi to work at home? help?

I've used the 6700 wi-fi in hotels and other spots, but I've never been able to get it to work at home.

We have WEP encryption, with an 5 digit ASCII key.

When I enter the settings into the PPC (Open, WEP, network key, index), PIE will connect for a split second, and then I get "cannot connect".

It seems as if I can't get the 6700 to enter the right key for our wifi. The settings/key/etc are exactly the same as the PCs in the house.

Anyone else run into this? Any hints?
 
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Old 11-12-2005, 10:17 AM
     
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some thoughts...

I had trouble with WEP on my 6700, I changed to WPA and now work fine. My neighbor (on his Samsung i730) had trouble with WPA and 'no broadcast SSID', so he turned broadcast on, and he's OK.

I'd try changing to WPA, see if it works. If not - change some other settings. Like anything wireless, you might want to check the software version on your wireless router, and get the latest, if appropriate.

Good luck!
 
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I'm using wep with no issues. Checking the router is a good suggestion. I would also 'remove settings' by holding the stylus down on the network name when viewing all available networks. The device my think the router is going to provide the key automatically-even with wep enabled.

wpa is much better security though so you just may want to start clean with that.
 
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Any chance that you are running MAC filtering on your home router?
 
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