I-Pod connection

[harvey lee]

My granddaughter recieved a I pod from us for Christamas.

She has it working at home but when she was at our house today, we could not get it to connect to our home computer.

It asks for our password and I gave her that but it did not work.

Does she need a password for the Wifi connection to the modem?

Hope I sad that correct as I am not sure how she can connect to our system.

When it comes up it says locked. My regular Frontier password will not allow her in.

[LMITOUT]

I believe it is looking for the wi-fi security code. You should be able to find it if you go into your wi-fi setup unless you already have it noted somewhere.

[harvey lee]

I will need to go and look for that code. Now I just need to find it, any ideas there? I know where the Wifi set up is but have no clue where to locate the security code.

I am not a good one for looking these things up and seem to always need direction.

Thanks Dan

[LMITOUT]

I usually type in the IP address of the wireless router and then when the menu pops up look for the tab or option where the security parameters are set.

Try typing 192.168.1.1 into your browser address bar. Don't put www or anything like that. Depending on your router a menu should pop up for the router.

See if you can get to that point and let me know.

[spearchucker]

I think Frontier routers/modems are setup as 192.168.254.254 as the ip address of the router/modem.

[upnorth]

Easiest way to do this is:

Open a command prompt and get the ip config for the PC.

Go to start, then run.

Key in cmd, press enter

Key "ipconfig" press enter.

This will bring up the basic IP info for that PC.

It should be listed as:

IP address xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

Subnet mask xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

Gatway xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

The IP address of the gateway will be the IP address of your router/wireless device.

From there they are all a little different. But somewhere you will have the wireless key listed.

[harvey lee]

Thanks for the help. I got what I needed but now I changed my internet provider yesterday and they gave me the new one. Guess I learned how to get it if it is ever needed again if I lose it or something lame like that.

[upnorth]

LOL...always a good day when one learns something new.