Novelist Supermum has invested her book royalties in alien technology. Therefore I'm rapidly gaining experience as an alien technologist whilst we set the glowing white device up with everything she needs.
Some advice for getting an Apple MacBook fitted with an Airport Extreme wireless card to connect to an Inventel Livebox wireless broadband router (as supplied by Orange, formerly Wanadoo).
Here's the Orange help for this type of connection.
At the point where it says type your WEP key into the 'Password field' - your AirPort password is your WEP key which you'll find on a sticker on the base of your Livebox)
I found that I was getting connection errors.
The solution was to simply place a $ sign at the start of the WEP key in the Password field !!!!
I dredged this arcane advice from a forum on the 'net, but can't for the life of me remember which one to acknowledge this.
The reason behind this is that the livebox is expecting a hexadecimal WEP key (as is printed on the livebox) whereas the Apple Mack Airport software / card is using a decimal key. Putting the $ sign in front of the WEP key in the password field tells it that a hexadecimal key has been entered.
All working fine now.
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