- allowing access to an orange router
- Posted by Danny on July 9th, 2007
Asking for a friend. He has the Orange Livebox router combo, which
works fine. He runs a Gite in France and had a visitor ask if they
could use his wireless router whilst they were there. He didn't mind,
so they set about trying to get their laptop access to the router, to
no avail. The laptop can see the livebox, with good signal strength,
and he's turned off the firewall etc, but no access. To confuse
matters, the Livebox has some software and a key which should be
installed on any machine that connects to it. This works OK, but we
want visitors to be able to connect to the router without installing
additional software on their computers. Does anyone know if this is
doable? Many thanks.
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Regards, Danny
http://www.gaggia-espresso.com (a purely hobby site)
(apparently bad grammar but I like it that way...)
- Posted by Lurch on July 9th, 2007
On Mon, 09 Jul 2007 18:35:40 +0100, Danny
<danny@nospam.gaggia-espresso.com> mused:
Unless you are connecting to a router or access point via USB you
generally won't need any software installing, the only reason supliers
of equipment give you a CD is to rebrand IE as supplied by them.
All you need is the WEP key, which IIRC is on the back of the router.
The Livebox though, being a heap of crap, does some sort of dual
security which confuses some utilites\OS's.
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Regards,
Stuart.
- Posted by Danny on July 9th, 2007
Lurch wrote:
Thanks, I'll pass it on...
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Regards, Danny
http://www.gaggia-espresso.com (a purely hobby site)
(apparently bad grammar but I like it that way...)
- Posted by Jon on July 9th, 2007
danny@nospam.gaggia-espresso.com declared for all the world to hear...
There is no software required, the WEP key is printed on the box itself.
Visitors should turn on their wifi and enter the WEP key when prompted.
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Regards
Jon
- Posted by Jon on July 9th, 2007
myrealname@sjwelectrical.co.uk declared for all the world to hear...
SOmeloveboxes have it, some don't.
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Regards
Jon
- Posted by Gaz on July 9th, 2007
Lurch wrote:
Yes, this catches people out a few times....
Also, Livebox initially broadcasts both a wep and wpa signal, and negotiates
connection on the highest encryption it can. This works fine with wireless
devices that are used to such a situation, but I have found that the windows
zero config utility and several others are sometimes incapable of
connecting.
Log into the router, and change the security to wep or wpa from wep and wpa.
Gaz
