How do I find the password to my Belkin_G_ Plus_MIMO_1D453E router?
by E Book Reader on Monday, September 12th, 2011 | 4 Comments
I am trying to connect my new Nook color reader to my wireless internet. I’ve called several people and one said it would cost me 199.00 to connect my reader.I was at my sister’s house and it connected great. What’s my home problem. I do have wireless connection at my house. Help!
Hi, Joyce, The easiest to start with any free Wi-Fi spots that do not need password or any other manual intervention as there could be some glitches during the setup as I’ve seen some posts – don’t know if they are correct – that Nook seems to work fine with Non-secured, WEP, and WPA-PSK [TKIP] wireless settings but could have issues with WPA2-PSK [AES] thus if your home router is set to WPA2-PSK [AES], it’d be best to set it instead to Auto (WPA or WPA2) mode so that your other devices that support WPA2 could still use that while Nook can get through on WPA – again, don’t know if that’s 100% correct.
In any case, you should be able to register from any Barnes & Noble store that provides free Wi-Fi to Nook’s or any Starbucks or any McDonalds or airport or any other place that provides free Wi-Fi service or your home’s wireless router.
Also, there’s have been the following notes in forums – again, they might not be correct for your particular situation or with your Nook model:
1. The Nook does not support WEP with shared key authentication, only open system authentication (which in spite of the name is actually safer). So check if your wireless router WEP authentication is set to shared or open. Only open will work with the Nook.
2. The router is set to WEP but Nook auto-misidentified the network as WPA2, and then failed to connect. Once I went to the bottom of the list and chose "Install Manually" and then went through selecting WEP, all was well.
Call Belkin directly. They will ask you for the serial number on your router and will walk you through the set up process. I had the same problem with a Belkin in the past and they handled and walked me through the steps very well. Also if it came with a CD follow the steps and read each one carefully for installing it.
How old are you?
If you never set up password in your house, there should not be one. If you did, how would I know what is your password?