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Help!! Can't remember or find my Wep Key

Forum Wireless Networking : Setup, Configuration & Security Help!! Can't remember or find my Wep Key

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Cant find or remember my wep key for my ps3

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or try this guide from saga lout

Hello and welcome to Tom's Hardware Forums.


Either connect wirelessly or use the cable that came with your router to connect to your computer then go Start then Run in XP - or use the Windows key plus R in Vista and Windows 7, then type in the following into the Open box, including all the spaces:-


cmd /k ipconfig /all


then press Enter and from the black form that shows up, take a note of the numeric code beside the Default Gateway icon - something like 192.168.0.1.


Type exit to close the black form.


Open Internet Explorer and enter that code into the URL address bar as though it was a website. You're then at the login page to the router's settings utility and admin will usually be the login with either admin or password as the password but your router's instruction manual will help you there.


If you're in, seek out Wireless and then Security and take a note of the key. Sometimes it may be a passphrase, some a simple set of letters and others a hexadecimal code. You also may as well note which level of security it is - WEP, WPA or WPA/PSK 2 and then either AES or TKIP. Your computer will already know this but it's handy information to store. Note also that hexadecimal only contains numbers from zero to 9 and letters a to f so there's no confusion of I and O with 1 and 0.


It's adviseable to keep a note of that security key in your Documents folder and also outside the computer.


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