sirlinus75 - 13/1/03 at 21:38
I am having a great deal of trouble getting my
wireless LAN to work reliably with WEP enabled.
(Linksys wireless 4 port router, 2 netgear wifi
cards) I seem to be following the instructions
properly, creating and implementing keys, but on the
rare chance I do get a connection and an IP
address, it doesn't last very long. I am
getting a great signal from both cards. Is
there a safe way to use a wireless router/AP
without using WEP? Does standard Windows networking
come into play when accessing a network whether
it's wireless or not? I also wonder if my
problem could stem from the fact that I'm using
a linksys router and Netgear cards...PLEASE HELP!
I'm losing sleep!
chestert - 19/1/03 at 13:53
This is just my opinion, so take it for what
it's worth!
I use an s4 with a ethernet connected PC and
a WPC11 PCMCIA card in my laptop. I'm running XP
pro and use ZoneAlarmPro. With the S4, I do
not use WEP, I just changed the number of users
from the default of 50, to 2. So when I
have both the PC and Laptop running, no one else
can 'share' my WAP. From what I understand, WEP
slows down the transfer rate to the WAP, so
unless I really have nasty security problems, I'm
just not going to use WEP. If your set up in
your home neighborhood, chances of a
hacker/cracker/unauthorized user getting into your system
is quite slim as the 'big boys' don't bother
with us 'little boys'. I dont think you should
have a problem with your Netgear cards. Did you
change the SSID on your router?
groosbro - 29/1/03 at 03:19
This is what I noticed with Linksys wireless
routers: They have some kind of proprietary
implemenation of WAP. I had a Linksys wireless AP
and a Linksys card, everything worked. When I got
a USR and an SMC card, they would not work
no matter what I did.
I switched to an Intel AP, and it works
perfectly with the USR and SMC cards
There is something non standard about the Linksys
standard.
shellyj - 30/1/03 at 17:23
Instead of trying to use WEP, for our home
network we use MAC address filtering. We live
in an area with a lot of techies, but haven't
had any intrusion problems (at least haven't detected
any yet).
jemmitch - 30/1/03 at 17:36
I got stressed about security and tried to switch
on WEP (not on linksys however, two belkin usb
units and a 3com pcmcia card). Got nowhere. just
could not get everything to talk so sacked it. I
used netstumbler just to see if there were any
other wireless networks around and found nothing so
in the end felt it was not worth the bother.
Concur with a previous opinion that the likelyhood
of an attack on a home machine over a wireless
link are not that high although i accept it
could easily happen if someone was determined enough.
sirlinus75 - 2/2/03 at 17:32
Thank you everyone for your posts...I finally got
my network up and running using WEP 40bit by one
of two things I tried concurrently. The first
was to move my wireless router off the top of
my case and on to the other side of the
desk. (doh!) After that I switched the key index
on my NG wireless pci card from 1 to 0. I
thought it was strange that the linksys router
index values went from 1 through 4, but Netgear's
pci cards start at 0. Anyway, I was finally
able to get up and running after that with only
a few disconnects here and there.
VStarMan - 24/10/03 at 00:52
quote:
Instead of
trying to use WEP, for our home network we use
MAC address filtering. We live in an area with
a lot of techies, but haven't had any intrusion
problems (at least haven't detected any yet).
I'm doing the same setup you are and I moved
to a different channel besides the default 11.
deejaygirl - 24/10/03 at 15:08
I've seen the performance with and without, and in
my environment, the encryption overhead is really,
really high. Without encryption, the speed is just
slightly less than an wired connection. With
encryption, the speed is about HALF of the
encryption speed. It's a real bottleneck ....
quote:
This is just
my opinion, so take it for what it's worth!
I use an s4 with a ethernet connected PC and
a WPC11 PCMCIA card in my laptop. I'm running XP
pro and use ZoneAlarmPro. With the S4, I do
not use WEP, I just changed the number of users
from the default of 50, to 2. So when I
have both the PC and Laptop running, no one else
can 'share' my WAP. From what I understand, WEP
slows down the transfer rate to the WAP, so
unless I really have nasty security problems, I'm
just not going to use WEP. If your set up in
your home neighborhood, chances of a
hacker/cracker/unauthorized user getting into your system
is quite slim as the 'big boys' don't bother
with us 'little boys'. I dont think you should
have a problem with your Netgear cards. Did you
change the SSID on your router?
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