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Beyond the Mysterious Beyond => Hobbies and Recreation => Computer and Electronics => Topic started by: kjeldo on May 13, 2008, 01:30:22 PM

Title: WEP
Post by: kjeldo on May 13, 2008, 01:30:22 PM

hey,

i lost the WEP key of my laptop! so annoying! did some of you guys ever had this?

Title: WEP
Post by: DarkHououmon on May 13, 2008, 01:56:35 PM

I don't know what a WEP key is.

Title: WEP
Post by: landbeforetimelover on May 13, 2008, 02:08:18 PM

Your WEP key belongs to your wireless router, not your laptop.  If you lost it just push the reset button on the router and it should just clear the password.

Title: WEP
Post by: Clawandfang on May 13, 2008, 02:08:21 PM

I had to look it up on Wikipedia. Acording to that they're fairly easy to hack....depending on which version you have. It might be an option worth considering.

EDIT: Or you could just take the experts advice. I advise that more.

Title: WEP
Post by: landbeforetimelover on May 13, 2008, 02:22:14 PM

Well, most of the time you can just press the reset button on the back of your router, however some manufacturers do something different like make you hold it down for so many seconds or make you punch in the code in a certain sequence.  You'll have to check with your manufacturer if just pressing the reset button doesn't work.

Title: WEP
Post by: Malte279 on May 13, 2008, 02:24:37 PM

Once I had the same problem. Luckily a cryptic piece of paper emerged from the chaos on the top of my desk on which I had written down the WEP key.

Title: WEP
Post by: Petrie. on May 13, 2008, 04:02:19 PM

Unplugging the router and disconnecting it from the wall should reset it as well and give you a new key or something when it finds the net service again.

Title: WEP
Post by: landbeforetimelover on May 13, 2008, 07:51:21 PM

That doesn't work with mine Petrie.  I have to periodically reset my router by unplugging it and plugging it back in again and it never clears my WEP key.  It's good to do that once every 2 weeks or so because it refreshes the connection, but it certainly wouldn't clear the WEP key.  Then every time the electricity went out, you'd have to set up your router again.

Title: WEP
Post by: kjeldo on May 15, 2008, 02:33:35 PM

i got it back,

Title: WEP
Post by: Kor on May 15, 2008, 10:20:58 PM

Great, how did you manage that?