sirlinus75
Newbie   Posts: 2 Registered: 13/1/03 Status: Offline |
 posted on 13/1/03 at 15:38
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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!
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chestert
Newbie  Posts: 3 Registered: 11/1/03 Status: Offline |
posted on 19/1/03 at 07:53 |
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? ____________________
chestert
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groosbro
Newbie  Posts: 1 Registered: 28/1/03 Status: Offline |
posted on 28/1/03 at 21:19 |
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. |
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shellyj
Newbie  Posts: 1 Registered: 30/1/03 Status: Offline |
 posted on 30/1/03 at 11:23 |
| 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). |
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jemmitch
Newbie  Posts: 4 Registered: 30/1/03 Status: Offline |
posted on 30/1/03 at 11:36 |
| 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. |
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sirlinus75
Newbie Posts: 2 Registered: 13/1/03 Status: Offline |
 posted on 2/2/03 at 11:32 |
| 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. |
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VStarMan
Newbie  Posts: 5 Registered: 22/10/03 Status: Offline |
posted on 23/10/03 at 18:52 |
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.  |
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