Hi all, Hmmmmm, this might sound harsh, Judy, but you really need to know how to at least access the router. If it's web interface is inaccessible, then, you will at least need to know its password so you can get in with sighted help and reconfigure what you want. <smiling> Don't do what my guru and I did with my former router. We made a password, and neither of us wrote it down. Needless to say, by the time we needed the dingdong password, we'd both forgotten it, so we couldn't fix anything without reconfiguring the whole blasted network! I'm happy to report that we do know the router's password now! I put a braille label on the router itself. Figured Braille was pretty safe. Not too many people know it.
As far as accessing the router, depends on the IP addresses of your network. Many home network IP addresses start with 192. The last number in your address for your router is probably 1, but that's something else you needed to write down. You use IE or the BN and you go to http://192.blah.blah.1. But again, you need the password before you can do anything. If you look in the connectivity menu on the BN, you'll see where it says find an IP address automatically? Most folks let the machines inside their firewall do this, it saves time and effort. Unless you have a Linux box or a printer or something that needs a static IP, it's not worth the trouble. I have to say that the connectivity menus on the BN are superb! They're very simple and if you understand what they're asking, you can do what needs doing quickly and efficiently. I would like to say that the manual should state that the WEP string should be typed in lowercase with no punctuation. The reason I called Tech Support yesterday morning was I kept getting "invalid WEP format..." It would help if this was placed in the manual so people would know. I tried periods; I tried colons; I tried caps; nothing worked till I just typed one string, lowercase and no punctuation separators. Good luck to all who are configuring their wireless networks. It's a fantastic feeling to be able to do things without being connected to something with wires! Ann P. -- Ann K. Parsons email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WEB SITE: http://home.eznet.net/~akp "All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost." JRRT
