Okay, so I was home this past weekend and my sister has a wireless router (secure network). She gave me the WEP key and I was able to connect to her network (at least it said I was connected) but I couldn't get to the internet.

Just to make sure it wasn't a problem with my notebook, I went to a local hotel parking lot and accessed the internet via their 'unsecure' wireless network.

Any idea why I can't get to work?

Same thing is happening with my daughter in the house that she is living at now. They have a secure network, but she has the WEP (or WPA) key but she can't access the internet either.

PA?????

Make sure the LAN setting is set to automatically detect your internet connection.

Just a guess.....

Does the network administrator need to grant some sort of access beyond the encryption key?

That's what I was thinking Finn. I have my network set up at home that allows only the MAC address of the computers I allow on the network, but when my sister set hers up, she doesn't remember ever choosing anything about MAC addresses. However, if she was only allowing certain MAC addresses, I wouldn't have even been able to get on her network. I was connected, just couldn't get to the Net. Color me very confused.

My laptop was sitting right beside her laptop and I had a stronger signal than she had.