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Wireless Internet Help on Pocket PC

by mattmoo1 Aug 19, 2005 2:28PM PDT

I have an HP iPAQ 1945 and a SanDisk Wi-Fi SD Card and I can't (or could ever) connect to the internet through my router. I have a Lunksys BEFW11S4 Wireless-Broadband Router. On my PDA I can see the linksys router and try to connect to it but I can't figure out how to get onto the internet. Can anyone help?

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Prolly not.
by r. proffitt Forum moderator Aug 20, 2005 1:05AM PDT

One of the brutal lessons I've learned is that adding WIFI later results in "it may or may not work."

Some don't research if the combo they are comtemplating works or not. Is there a web page where someone got this combo working?

Bob

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WiFi
by bcoe Aug 21, 2005 1:25AM PDT

I have a MyPal Asus A716, and a WAP router to WXP, Linux, and MAC with Cable access to the 'net.

Getting this little beast to work has been a challenge, but it does work (occaisionaly). I took it to my super geek friends who gave up. As I am more stubborn than they are, I did a hard reset to default settings and it worked!

I find it to be very inconsistent. Sometimes I can retrieve email, but not others. The same goes for accessing web sites. I have reasonalble signal strength.

I get a vzriety of errors which do not seem to make sense. I hope someone can explain. Sometimes it indicates I need to set up proxies, or I don't have modem connections or configurations. I don't use proxies, so why does it want them?

Any and all help and related web sites would be appreciated.

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Why isn't this unit returned?
by r. proffitt Forum moderator Aug 21, 2005 2:18AM PDT

Frankly I would start the return process. My PDAs with wifi builtin just work fine. The units at home and around the office are a number of ipaqs, dells and toshibas that have the wifi builtin, the 2003 OS and work fine.

Of course some will not do the return...

Bob

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no, i believe it should work.
by AKonny47 Aug 20, 2005 7:13AM PDT

well, i was stumped when i first tried to connect to my network. mine was on the list, and it said i was connected, but the two arrows had an x through them which meant i wasnt connected to the internet.

make sure you use your WEP key exactly as it is from your router, should be in with the software that came with your router, instead of the key is provided for me automatically. (this is from my hp 4150's built in wireless settings and configuration.

hope this helps.

konny

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