need help with wireless conection?

Question

have just got a wireless usb to conect with the modem but there is a lock between the two any ideas how to unlock on orange broadband

Answer 1

Locks indicate that there is some sort of encryption. This is usually a WEP or WPA password or phrase. You will need to enter that password or phrase to gain Internet access.

Look at the connection, click it, see if you can discern if it is WEP or WPA, then get the channel. Laslty find someone who knows the password or phrase or log onto the router and find it.

Answer 2

We need more information to help you. We need to know what type of Modem you have, what adaper you are using, what router, and the firmware update(s), what OS you are running, and what security is in place on your Wireless Router, WEP, WPA, WPA2, and what steps you have done so far to hook up your network. Whether it is an established connection, or if you are just now configuring it. Plus, we ned to know what you mean by a "lock" between the Modem and the USB adapter, and what "orange broadband" is.

I am in the USA, so perhaps "Orange broadband" is a name of an ISP. I don't know.

If by "lock" you mean Wireless Security, as a lock icon in the View Available Wireless Connections" folder, then that lock means there is an existing encryption format on this connection.

If that is true, you need the password, or passphrase. You enter that passphrase into the proper area when attempting to connect to the Wireless Network.

Usually, you do this by right clicking on the connections icon in the notificaiton area, or tray, then selecing "View available wireless networks", and when the folder appears, you click on the network you have the passphrase or password for, then enter the password twice, and then click Connect, and the computer is allowed onto the connection.

You would need to go talk to the person who runs the network, either your parents, room mate, or school administrator, work network administrator, etc, just whomever would have this information and ask for the passphrase to connect to the Wireless network.

Now, unless your Modem also is a Wireless Access Point, or WAP, you would need to hook up a WAP or a Router which contains an WAP, to the Modem, and then configure the Router and the connection.

However, as you said their is a lock between them, then it sounds like there is already a Wireless Network astablished, so get the password, or passphrase, enter it as outlined above, and you should be connected.

Answer 3

on the back of the hub key number