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In case I forget.... (PAV80)

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Whilst hunting high and low for the Wifi extender (that I did find in the end!), I managed to do a lot of tidying up of my home office...and during that tidying up phase I found a few old laptops/netbooks/handbooks .   I also found the old Netgear Wifi router that still has WEP security on it (only way I've found (so far) to get the old DOS equipment on the Wifi network).  It's a pretty simple setup, as detailed at the bottom of the page HERE , except I foolishly (or not?) did a factory reset on the Netgear router and therefore "lost" all the previous config setup.  I did what I thought was logical based on the screenshots from before, but it was still eluding me.  I created a new WEP key, I added that into the DOS autoexec.bat, but it just didn't seem to want to connect.  I set the Netgear router up to only allow the MAC address of the Wifi card, so I'll hopefully reduce any drive-by opportunistic sniffers jumping on my network (not that I'll be leaving t...