I recently purchased a new laptop (HP Pavilion dv6810us). Running Vista operating system.

I have a Netgear wireless cable modem Gateway through my ISP. The tech never wrote down the Key anywhere; just entered it into my old laptop.

He told me that all I needed to do what enter the 'password' I chose (which happens to be the name of one of my dogs) if I wanted to let anyone share my signal.

No one can connect and I am having trouble getting my own new laptop to connect. I can plug into the Netgear box with the cable, but I want my wireless back without have to contact my provider.

Is there anyway to do this?????

Thanks

plugin to your router via ethernet cable. login to your router home page and change the wireless security from wep to wpa. use complex password, see
https://www.grc.com/passwords.htm
copy and paste the password to router and to your laptop. You may or may not give the same code to others. Make sure you have changed the router admin password to something only you know, again make it complex and easily guessable like your dogs name. For fun take first letters of your dog name followed by 2 more from your name and further 2 from your friends name and use that phrase as password.

Cudni