Connecting To Wireless Network

I have an iphone 3g which I have added a wireless network to. I have the SSID and the WEP key for the network. I am trying to add this same network to my laptop but am not able to. I am using windows xp, I went to wireless network connections and clicked add. Then typed in the SSID, data encryption "WEP", typed in the key, and under network authentication I've tried all the options with no luck. Are there any other settings I might be missing or do you have any ideas? It's SSID is hidden because I had to manually enter the SSID and key before it would show up on my phone's network list.
Thanks.

 

It depends on the Router if someone has set the SSID not to braodcast they could also have used an option to limit the access to the router by the devices MAC addresses, the person that set the network up would know this or you can check in the routers webpage/homepage

 

Someone else looked at it for me and they thought the router was set up on a mac computer. Would this matter? Could I connect with my gateway laptop? Is it possible this network only shows up on phones?
Thanks

 

In the case of your router the term MAC means Media Access Control. As Dalo noted you have to look at the routers settings and if access is restricted to certain MAC addresses you will have to find out what the mac address is for the device you are trying to use and add it to the mac address list.

 

I am having the same problem. In the wifi settings, it shows that I am connected to my home network. But the phone uses the edge network rather than wifi. It used to work fine. I have no problems connecting to the home network with imac or mac book pro.

 

if its showing EDGE, I guess you are using o2, you need to enable the wifi on the phone and then physically add all the details to access your router (security settings etc)