Setting up A Wireless Network

[Maia]

Hi there, I am having a lot of problems setting up my Squeezebox Boom on a Wireless Network. As you will see, I am not htat tech-literate

I can get it all set up on the Ethernet setting and the SqueezeCenter runs perfectly and I was wondering if some people could chip in and help me out.

I will describe the steps I am doing to:

1. Assume that I have it set up as Ethernet and it running fine
2. Take out the Ethernet cable
3. Do a factory reset
4. Get to the 'Connect to wireless network' option, press on the wheel.
5. Choose region country: I choose "United States & Mexico", press the wheel
6. Choose my wireless network, press the wheel
7. Choose the encryption (64 or 128 bit WEP)

I think this is where I am going wrong. I think I have a regular passkey on my network and not HEX, what do I do?

Say my passkey is Hatstand77777 (made up for the purposes of this this post, how do I tell what it should be in 64 or 128 bit WEP? Which should I choose out of 64 or 128 bit WEP

Many thanks.

[toby10]

Hi there, I am having a lot of problems setting up my Squeezebox Boom on a Wireless Network. As you will see, I am not htat tech-literate

I can get it all set up on the Ethernet setting and the SqueezeCenter runs perfectly and I was wondering if some people could chip in and help me out.

I will describe the steps I am doing to:

1. Assume that I have it set up as Ethernet and it running fine
2. Take out the Ethernet cable
3. Do a factory reset
4. Get to the 'Connect to wireless network' option, press on the wheel.
5. Choose region country: I choose "United States & Mexico", press the wheel
6. Choose my wireless network, press the wheel
7. Choose the encryption (64 or 128 bit WEP)

I think this is where I am going wrong. I think I have a regular passkey on my network and not HEX, what do I do?

Say my passkey is Hatstand77777 (made up for the purposes of this this post, how do I tell what it should be in 64 or 128 bit WEP? Which should I choose out of 64 or 128 bit WEP

Many thanks.

Your router should display the actual encryption key for you, somewhere in the Admin menu's. Is your router currently set up with WEP or WPA?

[Maia]

I changed the encryption settings for my network from WEP to WPA and that did the trick. Many thank.

[ccrome2]

FYI, WEP stands for 'Wired equivalent privacy'. But WEP is 100% broken --
you might as well not have any encryption at all. If you can switch to WPA
(which is secure for now) or just turn off encryption all together.


On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 10:01 AM, toby10 <
toby10.3g3kib1222016703 (AT) no-mx (...limdevices.com> wrote:

>
> Maia;342645 Wrote:
> > Hi there, I am having a lot of problems setting up my Squeezebox Boom on
> > a Wireless Network. As you will see, I am not htat tech-literate
> >
> > I can get it all set up on the Ethernet setting and the SqueezeCenter
> > runs perfectly and I was wondering if some people could chip in and
> > help me out.
> >
> > I will describe the steps I am doing to:
> >
> > 1. Assume that I have it set up as Ethernet and it running fine
> > 2. Take out the Ethernet cable
> > 3. Do a factory reset
> > 4. Get to the 'Connect to wireless network' option, press on the
> > wheel.
> > 5. Choose region country: I choose "United States & Mexico", press the
> > wheel
> > 6. Choose my wireless network, press the wheel
> > 7. Choose the encryption (64 or 128 bit WEP)
> >
> > I think this is where I am going wrong. I think I have a regular
> > passkey on my network and not HEX, what do I do?
> >
> > Say my passkey is Hatstand77777 (made up for the purposes of this this
> > post, how do I tell what it should be in 64 or 128 bit WEP? Which
> > should I choose out of 64 or 128 bit WEP
> >
> > Many thanks.
>
> Your router should display the actual encryption key for you, somewhere
> in the Admin menu's. Is your router currently set up with WEP or WPA?
>
>
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