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[Ryne]

Hello,

I noticed recently that my home network was marked, "Insecure/not encrypted" so I tried to restore the previous settings. I have a wired computer and a wireless laptop (plus xbox live), my original settings were security enabled WPA2 level. The other day I (somehow) restored the setting to the wired computer, but when I attempted to access it on the laptop it asked for a passphrase or key. I set the network up, but nowhere did I see where that code could be. So, just to get to where I can use my laptop and xbox I changed it to factory settings and still there's no security. I worry about intruders.

Is there something I have missed? If I get one of the computers back secured where does the pass key or passphrase appear so I can access it through my laptop?

Thanks in advance.

[Lycan]

The passphrase is stored in the router. Infact its user configurable. You can specify any pass key you want.

[TerrArizona]

I also have my router setup for WPA-Personal and WPA only, but my laptop and the Wii sees only default with an insecure router. When I connected the Wii it was secure. Why? or What should I do?

Terry

[RussellM]

I also have my router setup for WPA-Personal and WPA only, but my laptop and the Wii sees only default with an insecure router. When I connected the Wii it was secure. Why? or What should I do?

Terry

Terry,

I'm a little confused by the way you worded this. Your labtop sees your network as 'default' with no security? Or does it see it as a secured network?

You might just have an old profile inside your wireless utility. Which one are you using? Dell WLAN wireless utility (dell)? Access Manager (ibm)? The Air Plus utility (dlink)? Or are you just using the built-in windows XP/Vista tool?

If you're able to go online, login to the router to verify it is infact secured. Once you verify this, remove all of your wireless profiles and refresh the network list. It should appear as secured. If not, disable/re-enable your wireless card.

Best of luck,
Russ

[networkcrawler]

I think your network is insecure with the other secured network. lol 

If you had your network unsecured originally but when trying to connect your new laptop it ask for a network key then the owner of the network now is your neighbors. 

[funchords]

I also have my router setup for WPA-Personal and WPA only, but my laptop and the Wii sees only default with an insecure router. When I connected the Wii it was secure. Why? or What should I do?

Terry

Even though your message is old, just in case someone else comes by and reads this --

Wireless software generally wasn't written with the presumption that users will change the network's basic security and connection parameters mid-stream.  As a result, some software wasn't designed to handle the situation where a network first scans as "open-none" or "shared-wep" or "shared-WPA2" and then changes.

Secondly, there is no error-checking in passive scanning, so some software will require 3 consecutive matching reads before using the data, and some don't take that precaution.

The solution for the odd device -- if it doesn't correct itself, reboot the device displaying the wrong info. 
The way to help keep this from happening -- if you change wireless network parameters (password, security, SSID hidden, etc.), change your network's SSID as well.  For example, from "MySuperNetwork" to "MySuperNetworkII"

[rynem]

This happened to me also. I had to reset my router, and still some networks were displayed and one was opened to everyone, there was no pass-phrase, etc. Although I fixed it by going to 192.168.0.1 and started from scratch and the unsecured network was replaced with the one I've just added. Btw, you got the same name as me  ;