Windows xp and airport extreme

[kyo-kun16]

Hello, I am having some troubles, My father recently purchased a Airport Extreme Base station/ router in order to get a Wi-Fi connection within our house, and it was so we can stop using Dial-up for the Mac OS X 10.4.xx
we have. Well we hooked the airport extreme to the link-sys router my mom has in her Windows XP (SP2) and we installed Airport Utility as instructed by Apple, and then the airport extreme was NOT detected in airport utility, and meanwhile on the mac, a wi-fi network appears called Apple Network... and we can connect to it and get on my mom's Verizon internet, even on my ipod touch, but the thing is my mom is using a Dell PC and I cannot tell if it has wi-fi capabilities and although I can connect to the internet it has NO password like a WEP or WPA key, so I would like to know how to encrypt it.

 

[djackmac]

On the XP machine if you go to start/control panel/network and internet/network connections you should see your connections. Your local area connection will be ethernet or wired connection. If you don't see wirless network connection listed in your network connections, then you don't have wireless capabilities on that machine. You could probably get a 3rd party usb wireless adapter which should provide that machine wireless capabilities.

As far as password protecting your wirless router, that is done through the web based configuration page. You would usually open a web browser and type in 192.168.1.1 or something similar in the address bar of the web browser depending on the routers ip address and then you will need to enter the default name and password for that router to authenticate and make changes to the settings on the router. Consult the manual of your router for exact details.