Wireless acscii code or something ?

Question

So I have an older laptop it is an IBM Think Pad I have a wireless card 4 it and i have a 2wire wireless thing and a mac book from 2006 and the wireless is security protected and i now the password but it says somthing like 104 ascii code or something

Answer 1

i am guessing that you are using wpa or wpa2 encryption on the router.

but your think pad doesn't know about wpa and thinks it should use the older wep encryption. If this is the case then you need to get a windows update for wpa

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/detai...

wpa allows you to use normal words of your choosing and is safer than wep

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jeff-

2wire is a brand name not a description and the ascii reference is the windows wireless configuration thinking that the password has to conform to a given number of letters or digits. Wep keys are fixed length but wpa are variable

Answer 2

Wow, just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water. I need some clarification to correctly answer your poser.  How can you have a two wire wireless thing?  I mean even two wires would mean it is not wireless.  Second is that IBM and Mac do not play well together.  ASCII should have nothing to do with it!