IMac connection to PC wireless question

Hello, so far my iMac setup has been a breeze but I am stuck at connecting to the Internet. I go through the process of wireless conecting and try to connect to the network found by the iMac helper but when prompted for the password I'm stumped. I realize this is more a PC question than anything else, but where on earth can I find out the password to my PC router?

What kind of wireless router do you have? Did you set it up - if so, it sounds like you set it up with a password to access the wireless network. If you did, but you've forgotten it, you'll need to refer to your router's documentation to find out how to reset it.
(For example, a Linksys router requires you to access http://192.168.1.1 for configuration.)
Matt

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Hi, I'm trying to set up my sister's iMac (education version) and haven't been able to get it to connect to the internet via the Airport Base Station. If it makes a difference, the ABS is an older model from about 4-5 years ago, I think. (Not extreme.)
The ABS is able to successfully dial-up and connect to her ISP.
The iMac displays the connect time, and the Internet Connect application shows for the AirPort Status that the iMac is connected to the network and that it is "Connected to the Internet via the Modem..." (followed the by the connection time.) However, the iMac still won't connect to the internet.
The wireless network seems to work okay. I'm able to access the iMac via my PowerBook and share files.
My PowerBook is able to connect to the internet wirelessly via the same active ISP dial-up connection via the ABS.
I tried duplicating the same network information from the PowerBook, but that still didn't work. As far as I can tell, the settings in the PowerBook are the same as in the iMac.
I'm tapped out of ideas right now. Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
12" iBook G3 DualUSB Mac OS X (10.4.7) Born June 2001

Finally got it to work.
In Airport Admin Utility --> Configure -->Access Control there were two Airport ID's listed there. I didn't add them, and I don't know where they came from, so I deleted them to see what would happen. After the base station restarted I connected to the ISP, and the iMac has been able to connect to the web ever since.

Ok, tried message boards everywhere to try and figure this out before having to post a question. Have a 21.5" iMac running Snow Leopard 10.6.8. After updates no wireless capability for ipad or laptop, imac connects fine but nothing else.No widgets work.

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Your post is pretty lengthy and I have to admit I didn't read it all. Please try restarting in Safe Mode, if that doesn't work please do both a SMC and PRAM reset. These may take 2-3 attempts.
SMC RESET
Shut down the computer.
Unplug the computer's power cord and all peripherals.
Press and hold the power button for 5 seconds.
Release the power button.
Attach the computers power cable.
Press the power button to turn on the computer.
PRAM RESET
Shut down the computer.
Locate the following keys on the keyboard: Command, Option, P, and R. You will need to hold these keys down simultaneously in step 4.
Turn on the computer.
Press and hold the Command-Option-P-R keys. You must press this key combination before the gray screen appears.
Hold the keys down until the computer restarts and you hear the startup sound for the second time.
Release the keys.

Hello, my sister her macbook pro cannot connect to our wireless internet. My imac however can, so the problem has to do with her laptop. We were wondering how we could solve this problem? Thank you very much in advance!

Hello, my sister her macbook pro cannot connect to our wireless internet. My imac however can, so the problem has to do with her laptop. We were wondering how we could solve this problem? Thank you very much in advance!

We did that, but it just doesn't seem to be able to connect. So basically we tried to connect to our network and insert the password, but afterwards it does nothing. Weird thing is also that the network symbol (top right of the screen) says that it has been connected, but when I go look at the system preferences --> network, it states that it has not been connected

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Welcome!
Only one variant of the PowerMac G4 could use the faster Airport Extreme Card. The rest used the original Airport card that is pretty slow.
To get fast wireless without buying more than one thing, consider this:
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Edimax/EW7722IN/
It goes in an available PCI slot
There are USB solutions also. However, all PowerMac G4 towers had only slower USB 1.1 ports, so any USB wireless adaptor can only run at about wireless 'B" speeds (slow) unless you also install a PCI USB 2.0 adaptor card. Doing that would allow a USB wireless adaptor to run at its maximum rated speed. These items working together would accomplish that:
USB wireless "dongle:"
Newer Technology MAXPower 802.11n/g/b USB Adapter + Plug and play direct or with extension cradle
USB PCI adaptor:
http://eshop.macsales.com/Search/Search.cfm?Ntk=Primary&Ns=P_Popularity%7c1&Ne=5 000&N=7069&Ntt=USB+PCI
Each approach has its advantages. The PCI wireless card is a one-piece solution that takes up no desk space. The USB2 card+USB2 Dongle gives you more fast ports for transferring date from other external USB devices (primarily cameras and external hard drives) at hugely faster rates than can the original ports. I have a USB 2 PCI card in my G4 tower strictly for transferring images from my digital SLR camera in a timely manner.

I have a iMac with a built in airport extreme card. Does the imac act as a wireless router so that I can connect to the internet from my iPad by tethering through my iMac?

I have a iMac with a built in airport extreme card. Does the imac act as a wireless router so that I can connect to the internet from my iPad by tethering through my iMac?

Depends which iMac exactly and your network setup, you can go into System Preferences and under the Sharing pane you can enable internet sharing from ethernet (or whereever you get your internet from) to Wi-Fi.

My iMac can't connect to internet wirelessly

I purchased a 27" iMac in 2013 version 10.8.5. For no apparent reason, my iMac won't connect to the wireless. According to my iMac I have full bars but when i open my browser and try to connect to any website, the page won't open. The browser continues to try to load page for some time and eventually displays "Safari can't open the page "http://<website address>/" because the server where this page is located isn't responding." I had, prior to this problem, and still have, after this problem, other devices connected to the same wireless router without problems. My current wireless router doesn't have a password, however, there are no neighbors close enough to connect to my wireless router. I've restarted my computer, shutdown my computer, restarted my wireless router, turned on/off Wifi to no avail.
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Please help!

Hello, littlemold
Thank you for visiting Apple Support Communities.
I see you have already processed most of the relevant troubleshooting steps for this issue. This could be related to your router assigning a self-assigned IP address. I would recommend going through the steps in the article below.
Wi-Fi: How to troubleshoot Wi-Fi connectivity
http://support.apple.com/HT202222
Cheers,
Jason H.

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Please test after taking each of the following steps that you haven't already tried. Stop when the problem is resolved. Back up all data before making any changes.
Step 1
Take the applicable steps in this support article. The Wireless Diagnostics program generates a large file of information about your system, which would be used by Apple Engineering in case of a support incident. Don't post the contents here.
Step 2
Disconnect all USB 3 devices. If you don't know which are USB 3, disconnect all USB devices except keyboard and mouse.
Step 3
If you're not using a wireless keyboard or trackpad, disable Bluetooth by selecting Turn Bluetooth Off from the menu with the Bluetooth icon. If you don't have that menu, open the Bluetooth preference pane in System Preferences and check the box marked Show Bluetooth in menu bar. Test. If you find that Wi-Fi works better with Bluetooth disabled, you should use the 5 GHz Wi-Fi band. Your router may not support it; in that case, you need a new router.
Step 4
Open the Network pane in System Preferences and make a note of your settings in the Wi-Fi service. It may be helpful to take screenshots of the various tabs in the preference pane. If the preference pane is locked, unlock it by clicking the padlock icon and entering your administrator password. Delete Wi-Fi from the service list on the left by selecting it and clicking the minus-sign button at the bottom. Then recreate the service by clicking the plus-sign button and following the prompts.
Step 5
Reset the System Management Controller.
Step 6
Reset the PRAM.
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Launch the Keychain Access application. Search for and delete all AirPort network password items that refer to the network. Make a note of the password first.
Step 8
Make a "Genius" appointment at an Apple Store, or go to another authorized service center.

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I just got a new hard drive- and now I can't connect to our wireless network- all our other items are connecting so its not the router- thoughts?

Hi, this has worked for a few...
Though all of these steps may or may not be needed, I'm including them all.
Make a New Location, Using network locations in Mac OS X ...
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2712
10.7 & 10.8…
System Preferences>Network, top of window>Locations>Edit Locations, little plus icon, give it a name.
10.5.x/10.6.x/10.7.x instructions...
System Preferences>Network, click on the little gear at the bottom next to the + & - icons, (unlock lock first if locked), choose Set Service Order.
The interface that connects to the Internet should be dragged to the top of the list.
10.4 instructions...
Is that Interface dragged to the top of Network>Show:>Network Port Configurations.
If using Wifi/Airport...
Instead of joining your Network from the list, click the WiFi icon at the top, and click join other network. Fill in everything as needed.
For 10.5/10.6/10.7/10.8, System Preferences>Network, unlock the lock if need be, highlight the Interface you use to connect to Internet, click on the advanced button, click on the DNS tab, click on the little plus icon, then add these numbers...
208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220
(There may be better or faster DNS numbers in your area, but these should be a good test).
Click OK.

Connecting laptops to wireless APs using RADIUS 802.1x and certificates set-up questions

I am working at a small school with 25 laptops for a mobile cart. We upgraded to new dual radio APs and I want to set up the laptops to connect to the APs and validate user credentials at logon. The person before me made a generic username "Student"
on each laptop locally so they could start the laptop and then connect to the wireless with a password. This is less than ideal for many reasons.
I have configured NPS on the server and on the AP. When I login locally and then select the AP I am prompted for credentials and can log in. On NPS's eventlog I can see it granting full access. At that point I do not have internet access which is going to
be a vendor call. I can ping 8.8.8.8 successfully but not the local.domain.org address, nor the server ip 192.168.25.5 which is also the DNS Server. I am thinking that there is a NAT issue there.
When I try to login to the laptops with my AD credentials it is not connected to the AP yet and tells me there is no logon server available.
Is that where the certificates should be used at computer/machine level?
I want to get this setup correctly so anyone who has done this and has some advice for best practice would be greatly appreciated!

Hi,
According your description, we can ping 8.8.8.8 successfully. It means that we have connected to the network.
Due to we can't resolve the domain name, it should be a DNS issue. As you have mentioned, the DNS server is unavailable. Please check if there is something wrong with the DNS server.
If we want client to connect to AP before implement AD authentication, we need to enable single sign on. For detailed information, please refer to the link below,
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2007.11.cableguy.aspx
Best Regards.
Steven Lee
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IMac connect to wi-fi but no internet but my other devices work fine

I need some advice. I have searched the helps forum before posting so please advice what I need to do. I have tried some of the solutions from the forums but not working.
My scnario...
iMac (latest version) was working real good until 2 nights ago. It still connects to the wireless router and once a while get internet but 98% of the time, impossible to load anything. It will load very quick after reboot the system then it slows down to eventually dead....and then several minutes, it loads very fast for few seconds and went dead and repeat the same. I follow the network diagnostic to turn off the router, wait and turn back on....same issue. Then, I thought it might be virus or melware cause I downloaded some Songs from unknown site. I then installed virus and malware remover but still not working. I then tried to login to my router to check out but I cannot even login cause it will even get to the login page. So I thought router is bad but it's not. My wife's iMac, PC laptop, Apple TV, iPad, and Android Phones are all able to connect with 30MB speed. I have tried to follow the DNS thing and still not working.
I use my iPad for AirPlay using same router so I am pretty sure the router is good and internet is good. So it only leave me with one thing, my iMac.
Any help is greatly appreciated.

Hello...I cannot say anything about the malware/virus question... BUT, I wonder if something got screwy with your Keychain. So I clicked on the Help in the menu at top of the screen, while I had system preferences open... There is a lot there to read.. I am in 10.7.4, so it may not exactly match what your machine says (do that search too, for precision).. but one thing that I think MIGHT be associated with your dilemma could be the following (did you set new passwords before when you did as BDAqua advised? That will do things...) the window I found:
Applications that use passwords require your permission to retrieve your password from Keychain Access. An application may present a dialog asking you to confirm access to your keychain. The message may contain several options:
Deny: Prevent the application from retrieving the password from your keychain. You need to enter the password manually.
Allow Once: Grant Access to your keychain this time only. You’ll be asked again the next time the application needs to access the password.
Always Allow: Allow the application to always retrieve the password without asking.
If you want to allow an application, such as Mail, to always access your keychain without asking for a password, select “Always Allow.”
Open Keychain Access, located in the Utilities folder in Launchpad.Open Keychain Access
If you don’t see keychains in the left column, choose View > Show Keychains.
Select a keychain, from the Keychains list. The application’s keychain would probably be in your login keychain.
Double-click the password in the Keychain window, and then click Access Control.
To allow all applications access to this password, select “Allow all applications to access this item.”
To control access to this password, select “Confirm before allowing access.”
To require the keychain password instead of the application password, select “Ask for Keychain password.”
To add individual applications that can access this password, click Add (+), and then navigate to the application you want to add.
Click Save Changes.

How do I connect other devices wirelessly?

My imac can connect to the internet wirelessly (no problems) but now I'm trying to connect a Pandigital tablet and an RCA wi-fi streaming media player to my internet network. My network isn't showing up on the available networks. What am i doing wrong? I've never tried to add other devices to my wireless network and am not sure if i need to change anything in my Airport Express to do so. Any help is appreciate! Thanks!

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