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Cruachan · 21-01-2008, 17:15

I know that you've gone down the router route but ...

I started off with a Telewest provided WG602 and WG111 and it became surplus to requirements when I added another computer to my setup - the Telewest provided (firmware crippled) WG602 can support only one PC.

I thought, as others did, that the WG602 was tied in to using the supplied WG111 dongle, but I found that it was not by successfully connecting to it with another WG111 dongle.

Anyway, I recently used the WG602 to extend my wireless network (by plugging it in to a switch at the other side of the house to my current wireless router). I used the website http://www.powerdog.com/wepkey.cgi to generate the 128 bit WEP key from the Telewest provided passphrase and got my XP integrated wif-fi laptop to connect to the WG602.

Probably no help to you now, but perhaps of interest to some who have contributed to this post.

And if anyone knows how to access the router's configuration pages, please let me know! Part of the crippling done for Telewest means that 192.168.0.227 does not work.

21-01-2008, 17:15	#12
Cruachan Inactive Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 16	Re: Wireless connection to old PACE telewest box I know that you've gone down the router route but ... I started off with a Telewest provided WG602 and WG111 and it became surplus to requirements when I added another computer to my setup - the Telewest provided (firmware crippled) WG602 can support only one PC. I thought, as others did, that the WG602 was tied in to using the supplied WG111 dongle, but I found that it was not by successfully connecting to it with another WG111 dongle. Anyway, I recently used the WG602 to extend my wireless network (by plugging it in to a switch at the other side of the house to my current wireless router). I used the website http://www.powerdog.com/wepkey.cgi to generate the 128 bit WEP key from the Telewest provided passphrase and got my XP integrated wif-fi laptop to connect to the WG602. Probably no help to you now, but perhaps of interest to some who have contributed to this post. And if anyone knows how to access the router's configuration pages, please let me know! Part of the crippling done for Telewest means that 192.168.0.227 does not work.