router wep-thingy ...i dont have a clue!!!

[coz-bob]

ok so this is a tricky one... (well it is for me, but someone out there will probably be laughing their technological head off at me) right so i have a netgear router: SSID tw34715768 (i dont know what this is, just thought it would be helpful!) and i need to connect it to my laptop. ive been told that i need to find my netgear manual online, type in some ip address (?!) and find a wep(?!) and put that number in when i try to connect to my seurity enabled network (you see my laptop can recognise the router but wont connect becuase it is security enabled).

If any one has any idea, or can point me in the right direction i will be extremely grateful.

thanks a million :D

[Ethel]

Connect laptop to router by cable whilst messing with the settings

Now type

192.168.0.1

in the address bar - nothing else at all

Now you should be in your router settings where you can have a good look and set your WPA or WEP

Let us know how you get on

[coz-bob]

ive just typed that in but its not coming up with anything :/

do you think i have another ip address?

(thanks for your help too)

[khana]

Try 192.168.1.1 and see if that lets you access the router settings. The SSID is the name of the network that your router is using to broadcast on (this can be easily changed and also hidden so that you would need to know the SSID to access the network).
You may also have MAC filtering in place , so you would need to know the MAC address of your laptop so that it can be added to the routers setting
WEP settings ensure that your network is encypted, so that it is a lot harder for someone to access your broadband connection (it's basically a case of entering the same password on both the laptop and the router, once you access the settings it will become a lot clearer).

[Jules001]

Assuming you know nothing about the configuration history of this router it might be best to set it back to it's factory default settings.

Not sure how to achieve this on your router but some have a button on the back.

The normal admin IP address for Netgear routers is 192.168.0.1 as previously posted. Once you get the admin pages up the default username=admin and the password= password.

Let us know if you get into the admin pages.