How do i control the limit for wireless access?

Question

Ever since I set up a 128 bit WEP, my brother's laptop doesn't have internet and it says its limited. How do set it where he can have full internet access and still prevent unwanted wireless users?

Answer 1

its possible that the wep he's using or is saved inside his laptop is the old one. try to reconfigure the wireless in his laptop

Answer 2

OK, let's break it down a bit.

When you set 128-bit WEP, you were essentially setting a password to restrict access to your wireless router. Your brother's laptop sees the connection and tries to connect when he clicks "connect". It then shows connected in the lower-right, but with a fat exclamation mark that says "limited connectivity".

Did I get it right so far? The word "limited" is misguiding. Trust me, without that WEP key that you set, there is NO connectivity. The router won't even give it an IP address assignment until the right key is used.

So on his laptop, right-click the wireless icon and select "Open Network Connections". Right-click the wireless connection that appears and choose Properties. On the wireless networks tab, click add. You need to set the SSID (name of the wireless network) and the key. You probably need to uncheck the option that says the key is provided automatically, and then set the number of the key (1-4) that is used on the router.

Good luck. Email me if you have more questions...

Answer 3

Setup the mac filtering on the laptop. Is your wap doing any QOS? When it says that it's limited what is telling you that? Just setting up the wep on it shouldn't have any affect on bandwidth other than maybe some processing power but you shouldn't notice any difference in speed. What I would do for a quick test is just take one system go to something like dsl-reports and do a bandwidth check, if both are the same I wouldn't do anything different to the systems

Answer 4

You probably mean it says limited or no connectivity?

you can do what already been suggested or on his computer just go to network connections, right click on the wireless one and click properties, then click on the wireless networks tab.
remove the entry that is in preferred networks.
Then have him connect again and enter in the 128 bit key.

This will just create a new preferred networks entry with the correct security key.

Answer 5

If he correctly configured the network settings and the key is correctly typed in then he should have full connectivity. I am using a PC that have 128bit WEP key and i have full connectivity with no limitations.