1. 2 wire - 2701HG-E modem 2wire.com/index.php?p=106 2. 2 - Belkin FSD8233-4 Wireless N Routers tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=3173668&CatId=2668 Ok, what I have is a resturant who has ATT dsl with a 2 wire modem (don't care about the wireless apart, to far to be effective, would like to disable it). They would like to have wireless internet for their customers in the dining room so i ran a cat 5e line from the modem to the first Belkin router and everything works fine. Its an open connection so anyone can come in and connect with their laptop. From there i ran from port one jack to another Belkin router also in the ceiling for the owner. She wants this one to be secure so no one can access her files or laptop. I put this one as "access point" and secured it with a 128 bit wep key. Now for some reason as an acces point i can connect with my laptop using the network key, (i'm using xp) but we can not get her laptop (vista) to connect. It sees the signal when you "veiw availble wireless connections" but it won't connect. Strange thing is, when i use that router (#2) as a regular router instead of an access point we can all see it as available but no one can connect, not even me. This lady is very nervous about her signal and wants her part to be secure, she even had me hook up her all in one to the secured router so she could print/fax wirelessly over her secured router. Any ideas why i can connect to the secured "access point" with my laptop but we can't connect with hers?

When one connects and another doesn't, the firewall settings (on Vista in your case) is the first thing that comes to mind. However, you don't have to go through all that to secure her PC. Forget about the Belkin, use DHCP on the 2wire for customers and give her laptop and the printer static IPs outside of the DHCP range. Set her laptop so she has to login and uncheck allow ICMP echo requests under the advanced tab of Windows firewall. That way, her IP won't respond to pings and network scans. Make sure the web interface of the 2wire is password protected.