Merlin,

I'm assuming that you CAN get into your Linksys Router's by typing
http://192.168.1.1/ into your browser's address bar -- either IE, Firefox,
or whatever you're using -- and pressing ENTER.

This will launch your router's login screen. Unless you have changed it
since you bought the router the default username is 'administrator' (without
the quote's) and the default password is 'admin' (also without the quotes.)

Once you're in, you'll see a series of tabs on the top.

In my WRT54G I see SETUP, WIRELESS, SECURITY, ACCESS RESTRICTIONS,
APPLICATIONS AND GAMING, ADMINISTRATION, and STATUS

I click on the WIRELESS tab. Directly under the now-enabled WIRELESS Tab, I
have 5 sub-categories showing, which are actually hyperlinks. These are:
Basic Wireless Settings | Wireless Security | Wireless MAC Filter |
Advanced Wireless | Settings

I click on the Wireless Security link and a page displays. At the bottom of
the display there are Keys 1 through Key 4. In my case I use only one key,
so all of them are the same. This is the WEP encryption key that you are
looking for.

What I've done in all the PCs on my network is to copy/paste this key into a
Notepad file on each machine. Then, anytime I need to re-enter this key, I
just open the file and copy the encryption key and paste it into the space
on the appropriate dialog box.

Please let me know if you can find your key by following these steps.

Alan

"Merlin" <Merlin@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:655D5FF5-513B-4E1B-9032-896B43171DF6@microsoft.com...
> Thanks. I also have a Linksys router, but I don't have the Linksys
> Easylink
> Advisor you mention, so I can't go to it to get the information I need.
>
> Any other ideas where/how I can get the required information?
>
> "Alan" wrote:
>
>> Hi Merlin,
>>
>> I have a Linksys router, and I know that if I go into the Linksys
>> Easylink
>> Advisor, it shows the WEP key and other network settings if I click on
>> the
>> Support tab.
>>
>> Alan
>>
>> "Merlin" <Merlin@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:5CB90992-90D9-4FBC-B450-22373ABCE881@microsoft.com...
>> > I've recently suffered a major PC Crash and I'm trying to recover that
>> > machine from it. One of the things I need to do is to reconnect it to
>> > my
>> > network, but I keep getting the message "Limited or no connectivity"
>> > when
>> > I
>> > know the signal strength is high and it did connect okay before the
>> > crash.
>> > I
>> > suspect that I'm not entering the correct WEP key - I thought I had it
>> > noted
>> > correctly, but it seems not.
>> >
>> > Is it possible to get the correct key from the two other PCs that are
>> > connected to the network or do I have to set up the network again from
>> > scratch?
>> >
>> > I'm running Windows XP on all machines.
>> >
>> > Help please!
>>
>>
>>