Some notes in support of these Threads
https://www.dsl-forum.de/threads/251...line-verbunden
http://www.eileenslounge.com/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=37237
https://telekomhilft.telekom.de/t5/T.../true#M1390641
https://telekomhilft.telekom.de/t5/T.../true#M1394485
The main problem is explained here: http://www.eileenslounge.com/viewtop...288546#p288546
Here a bit of info about the “working” and not working XP machines
“WorkingWPA”
Non working WPA
So it looks like Service pack 2 don’t work.
WPA or WPA2
It’s all to do with some secret coding / encryption. As time went on they got it more safer / more sophisticated,
I expect when you send stuff across the air with the WLAN, then you want to try and prevent people tapping into you
The older XP don’t know about the newer WPA2
I did have a quick fiddle with various security settings on my computers, but that mostly just got me in a mess. But I did not really look at that in any great detail.
My older router had written on the back WPA/WPA2 . The simple short term solution to my problem seemed to mainly to be changing something in the routers settings:
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