PLEASE HELP. issues with wireless!!!..?

I have an airport, and lots of macs in the house. they, connect perfectly to the airport. however my one PC, a toshiba, when tries to connect cannot.. and an error message comes up that looks like this: The network password needs to be 40bits or 104bits depending on your network configuration. This can be entered as 5 or 13 ascii characters or 10 or 26 hexadecimal characters.



I have seen the other topics started about this here, at yahoo answers, but changing the WEP Key to hexadecimal and all that stuff makes NO SENSE TO ME.



Can some one please stupify this down to what I need to know, and HOW I do it , please help me fix this?!?!?!PLEASE HELP. issues with wireless!!!..?
it's IRRELEVANT whether your key requirement is hex or ascii. your toshiba will properly encode the WEP key no matter how you enter it.



what might be confusing you is you might have a manufacurer based wireless configurator instead of the stock microsoft ZERO configurator.



however, DO NOT enter a passphrase(password). that's different but rather the key itself. enter as the first key(or key #1)



also deselect the box which may state (key provided for automatically)PLEASE HELP. issues with wireless!!!..?
I think the best way to fix your problem, and make the network far more secure at the same time, is to switch from WEP encryption to WPA (WPA/PSK) encryption.



First, WEP encryption is very unsecure, and can be ';cracked'; by anyone with the right software tools in a matter of minutes (I've seen it done in under 5). This will allow others to gain access to your network, and also to ';intercept'; your transmissions, meaning they can see everything you do on the net.



Second, WPA encryption uses ';keys'; or ';passcodes'; of any length, which will remove your problem of needing 5 or 13 ASCII characters.



FYI - WPA is a much stronger and more secure alternative to WEP. I work in IT for one of Australia's largest banks, and they highly recommend switching to WPA encryption.



There's a guide on the O'Reilly Network here:



http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/wireless



I STRONGLY suggest you switch to WPA using this guide, as WEP encryption is almost useless. As an example, here's a guide on how to crack 128-bit WEP in 60 seconds.



http://www.shawnhogan.com/2006/08/how-to



I hope you will heed this warning, as you're leaving yourself exposed to anyone that knows how to do a google search for crackining WEP-secured networks. They can see everything you do online, and can even perform an SSL main-in-the-middle attack to obtain your encrypted Internet banking details.
you need to find what the default gatway is



usually you type is a internet browser 192.168.0.1

that is most often the default

another is 192.168.1.1