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Hi,
I run windows vista home premium.
I have a desktop, and laptop and both were connected wirelessly to a linksys BEFW11S4 router which connects via ethernet cable to a westell wirespeed B90-210015-04.

The router and the modem are both old, from perhaps 3 years ago.

I was able to connect fine to the internet for a long time. THe connection was unsecure so I thought that I should make it secure. I did, set the WEP encryption, and now its a secure connection... that doesnt connect to the internet. Both computers list the connection as a local connection.

So everything worked yesterday until I stupidly decided to mess around with it and now its only local. I tried going back but now even when its unsecured, the connection is still local.

Any help? Please?

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Member Avatar for UnknownUser

Did u actually put in the passphrase for WEP once it was created??
Sounds like its just an addressing issue or else u have some encryption still turned on.
By the way, wep is pretty much insecure.. WPA is better nowadays.

Member Avatar for cguan_77

both wired and wireless connection not working? or only the wireless? try typing ipconfig /all see what you got..post it here...

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hey guys, thanks for the replies.
well i called verizon yesterday and after a 40 minute troubleshooting phone call, the problem was finally fixed when i changed the linksys router's "internet connection type" setting to "PPPoE" instead of the "Obtain an IP automatically" setting it was previously on.
so that was the problem.

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