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I’m having WiFi trouble!

I bought a new Buffalo wireless router. It’s mainly connected to my husband’s PC, and it’s working fine on his computer. My problem comes where I am unable to enter the WPA password into my Mac PowerBook G4 and have it work. It tells me that the password is too long (it’s a huge string of letters and numbers). How can I get around this so I can use my laptop without being tied to this stupid Ethernet cord??? I’d like to eventually use DS and Wii WiFi capabilities as well.

Can anyone help? How can I make the long long LONG password work on my laptop? Any Mac experts out there?

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kwafe offline Verified User (1 year) Long Term User Shouts: 0 #
An Unknown Location | 1 year ago (1 hour, 24 minutes after post)

I think you can simply change it to shorter one. WPA doesn’t have to be long. Also, you can try WEP protection.
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saitokonek offline Verified User (1 year) Long Term User Shouts: 1 #
An Unknown Location | 1 year ago (13 hours, 33 minutes after post)

Shoot…The problem is that I’m not sure how I’d go about changing the password. The main system is on a Japanese version of Microsoft XP, and while I’m fair enough in the language, there’s quite a bit of technical characters I can’t read yet! >_

I realize this is heading into some complex territory, but it’ll cost $100+ to have someone come out here and deal with it, so I thought it would be worth the shot trying to find help here. Is there any way to point me in the right direction as far as where I should go on the PC to find the section where I can have the password changed? If I can stumble my way into the right place (in other words, I can tell by looking at the icon for “My Computer” how to get there, whether I can read it or not). Buffalo has its own web page, but all we were able to do was find the huge string of letters and numbers for the password. I have no clue how to change it.

Thanks for the help!!!

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