sirlinus75
Junior Member   Posts: 2 Registered: 13/1/03 Status: Offline |
 posted on 13/1/03 at 15:38 |
| 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!
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chestert
Junior Member  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
Junior Member  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
Junior Member 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
Junior Member  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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