New puter and I can't play with it
 

So, I picked up my new puter on the way home today. Just a basic iMac with wireless KB & Mouse. But I can't play with it yet.

Why? Because I can't remember the password to my freakin' network!!!!

I know it is eight characters. I've tried everything I can think of (including caps lock on) to figure it out. So far, no luck.

AArrrggh

I am worried the only way out of this is to go buy a new router.

(BTW: if anyone wants to make a suggestion, it is a Linksys Wireless router.)

Thankfully I have not disconnected the old one yet.

Didn't wait long, did you?

Gratz.

I wanted to make sure I spent the money before it disappeared.

Boy howdy do I know THAT one!

Ahhh, I have envy.

See what happens when you go Mac? Evil follows.

Is Gus Gus going to buy that lame excuse? So you want a new router, just go get it.

Otherwise pop a hard reset to factory defaults and reconfigure that bad boy.

That's what I was going to say - hard reset - then make a new password. And write it down somewhere. ;)

I usually spend the money and hope it appears afterwards.

Voodoo economics;)

Oh, I hate this kind of problem.

So, I did a hard reset of the router. Set it with WEP security. Entered the code on the new Mac and all was fine there. Except now the Tivo (which runs through the network) and the old Mac didn't want to see the network.

After some fiddling around, reset the router again and everything saw the router. Cool. Put WEP protection back on. New Mac sees the network but the old Mac and Tivo once again won't.

Don't ask me what made me think of this, but I turned the wireless card off on the new Mac. Old Mac and Tivo can now see the network. Then, I turned the wireless card back on in the new Mac. Old mac and Tivo stay connected.

Hmm....

Did you make sure that the router on your TiVO can use WEP encryption? I know the Linksys router I tried wanted a specific type of encryption (I can't remember if it is WEP or WPA).

What wireless protocols are the various devices running? It's possible that the new Mac is running a faster protocol (either g or n) and the router is detecting that and switching to the higher speed mode, leaving it incommunicado as far as the slower devices are concerned. Go into your router and make sure it's set to compatibility mode (something like "b AND g" or "b, g, AND n").

I purchased the Linksys because (amongst other reasons)m Tivo (at the time), only had one wireless access point on it's recommended list (and that is the one I purchased).

It is set to all modes. FWIW, the router is a G, the Wireless cards in the old Mac and in Susan's PC (which I haven't checked yet) are all G. The new Mac is N. If I recall correctly, the WAP hooked up to the Tivo is B.

So far, everything is working okay since I did the earlier off then on of the New Mac's Airpoort card.

As much as I like this wireless keyboard, I really miss having the 10-key, Page Up and Page Down, Home and End keys.

I did to, but it didn't like my encryption - which I just checked and is WPA. WEP is the less secure of the two, but is what the TiVO will take from the Linksys card I have.

I'm researching if the TIVO branded card has the same restrictions.

Good to hear!

If I remember correctly, TiVo started supporting WPA about a year ago.

Then my TIVO sucks, or I need a different router (I'll go with the second). I had such a hard time finding the specific version that I'll go with the TiVO branded router when I buy a next one.

Well, I set up my network with WEP and the Tivo sees it just fine (event tested it for this post).