home wireless network

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    hey guys again. could someone help me out in setting up a home wireless network. when i use the windows xp wizard it gives me an error that the SSID i entered contained one or more invalid characters. well thanks for the help in advance. i have a ZyXEL G-2000 Plus v2
     
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    seb32 Regular member

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    The SSID is the name of your network. What are you trying to name it?
     
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    i know.
    im just trying to name it my last name

    but anything i enter it gives me that error.
     
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    That shouldn't be happening... have you tried restarting? Also, try a 5 or 8 letter name in small letters -- your SSID shouldn't have any restrictions like this, but you never know...
     
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    ok i did that and nothing is working i tried numbers, special characters, and what not. i tried to make the network using the my computer and transfering that using a flash drive but im not really sure how that works.
     
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    do you have a router? If so use it's SSID name when setting up the network.
     
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    yep tried that too
     
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    steimy Active member

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    and your sure that your not using any invalid characters like spaces or dashes or anything? I just googled the problems and it really did not give me anything on it. I will continue to look and see what i can find.
     
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    ya im just putting in "maniago" with out the quotes ive googled it too cant seem to find anything and tahnks
     
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    Sorry i could not find anything for you on this. I have a wireless network but i only use it for the internet which doesn't really require any set up like if you want to transfer files. For file transfer i have a 4GB flash drive that does the trick just as well.

    You may want to go out and find a home networking program, there are a few out there and once installed it will find any computer on your network and set everything up in very easy steps for you.
    like this one for example:
    http://www.networkmagic.com/nmlp/ho...0t4GDEENJ6Bd9i68lUIrwG9ehSFaVfTF_5n8LT37jG0ur
     
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    hey seb thanks for all your help. im gunna try that program. thanks again
     
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    lol, steimy gave you most of the help, thank him
     
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    o my bad steimy. i was just looking at the previous reply, not to all of them. thanks for all your help steimy. i appreciate it
    , and you too seb. hah
     
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