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I recently bought an Acer Inspire netbook and cannot connect wirelessly to my Verizon Westell gateway. But I can connect to my neighbor's unsecured wireless network. Its funny huh.. I tried to disabled the wep security on the Westell gateway but no luck. Could someone help me?
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#1 In the router, are you trying to hide the SSID?
#2 In the router, are you using MAC Address Filtering?
#3 If you have no idea: What is the model of this Westell Gateway?
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I called Verizon and they helped me set-up the Acer netbook to connect to Westell gateway.
Solution: Verizon updated the software for the Westell gateway to include both WEP key for 64/40 bit and 128/140 bit.
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@bangelbjr wrote:I called Verizon and they helped me set-up the Acer netbook to connect to Westell gateway.
Solution: Verizon updated the software for the Westell gateway to include both WEP key for 64/40 bit and 128/140 bit.
While you found a fix, I find that strange.
Why not just go down to 64/40 bit if your computers do not support 128/140 bit - Or if your computers do not support 64/40 bit, why would you want to support both?
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Sorry for the confusion. The Verizon tech updated the Westell gateway to include both work on 64/40 bit or 128/140 bit, since the Acer laptop works on 40 or 140 bit WEP key.