A lot of wireless routers are now being supplied by ISPs with pre-configured security settings. These can sometimes be altered by the user (BT, Tiscali) or sometimes not (Sky).
The pre-configured wireless network name (SSID) and wireless key (WPA key) are usually printed on the bottom/back of the router and sometimes also on an accompanying card.
Take great care when entering the key - it is probably case sensitive. In other words, if it shows an uppercase letter then enter it as an uppercase letter.
Don’t blindly assume that the whole key is hexadecimal and therefore that the case of the letters doesn’t matter. Bitter experience says that it does!
I think that this only really applies to WPA (rather than WEP) security, but play safe, just copy the key exactly.
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